3 super myths debunked

There’s a lot of information out there about super, but how do you know what applies to you? What information is relevant? Super can be complex, but we believe it doesn’t need to be. Improving your knowledge and understanding of super is always going to be one of the best ways to effectively manage your savings and maximise your retirement savings.

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Darshana Amarsi
Flourishing Staff, Flourishing Schools: Six Whole-School Shifts That Matter

What if we stopped designing school culture around what staff can endure and instead built it around what helps them flourish? We talk a lot about student wellbeing, and rightly so. But here’s the truth: when the adults in the building are not flourishing, the whole school feels it.

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Darshana Amarsi
Inspiring Interventions - Unlocking Library Connection and Student Joy

Library interventions are big, powerful marketing campaigns designed to create a lasting impact on patron behaviour and mindset. In school libraries, they can be used to promote library engagement, increase use of a service or product and help students forge a positive self-identity as a reader.

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Darshana Amarsi
PACER Co School Paramedics

In a world where seconds matter, access to advanced medical care should not be a luxury—it should be the standard. As educators, parents, and health professionals, we all share one unshakable commitment: to protect our children and provide them with a safe environment to learn, grow, and thrive.

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Darshana Amarsi
Protect Your Energy Like It’s the Last Chocolate Biscuit

It’s time to make coffee. Take a breath. Maybe take a walk on the beach. And reflect. Some leaders burn out not because they’re doing too much—but because they’re not protecting their energy.

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Top 4 Reasons to Teach Overseas

Did you know that you can teach in a foreign country, in your area of expertise, without having to learn a language? To experience new cuisines and cultures and meet people from diverse backgrounds. A chance to explore the local environment, and venture to other international destinations….to get out of your comfort zone and have an adventure!

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Darshana Amarsi
Demystifying Dyslexia: What Every Teacher Should Know

Dyslexia affects an estimated 10% of the population, yet misconceptions about it persist in classrooms across the world. For educators, understanding dyslexia is not just about helping a few students—it’s about ensuring that every child has access to instruction that meets their needs.

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Change and Flourishing: Creating the Conditions for Growth in Schools

Schools are ecosystems of change. Throughout my career as a school leader, I was immersed in it all—curriculum reform, project-based learning, blended models, student coaching, PB4L. I loved it. I thrived on it. But one line from Ecclesiastes always stayed with me: “There is a time for everything.”

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Three Keys to Creative Education

Let’s reimagine what creativity can look like in our schools. Why do we spend 90% of class time typing on devices and writing on paper? What if we wrote poetry on school walls with spray paint, explored science through ceramic glazes, or calculated math through clay shrinkage rates in pottery?

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Want a Flourishing School Culture? Don’t Do This at 5pm

It’s 5:00 pm on a Friday. The school is quiet. Students are gone. Staff are wrapping up a long week. You’re finally about to shut your laptop, breathe out, and head into the weekend. Then it arrives. An email. Not a thank-you. Not a check-in. It’s a task, a problem, or a pointed question.

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Reading between the lines

The use of complex texts for learning is a well-established pedagogical practice and therefore the selection of appropriate texts is an integral part of teaching and learning.  Traditionally, textbooks and single origin resources have been a staple in classrooms, but the use of a singular resource can be problematic in an environment that has significant variation in literacy levels and background knowledge

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Beyond Self-Care: Why School Wellbeing Needs a Systems-Level Rethink

If you’re a teacher attending the National Education Summit this year, you already know the toll burnout is taking on our profession. You may even be one of those standing at the edge of exhaustion. And if you’re not here in this room—perhaps you’re one of the many too overwhelmed to attend, too depleted to even name it.

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Darshana Amarsi
Integrating AI Technologies into Classroom Practice: A Simple Guide for Educators

In 2025, bringing Artificial Intelligence (AI) into the classroom isn’t just an idea, it’s happening every day. Teachers around Australia and the world are discovering practical ways to use AI to help their students learn better. But with so many options, knowing where to start can feel overwhelming. The key question isn’t "Should I use AI?" but "How do I use AI effectively and simply?"

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Darshana Amarsi
AI in the Classroom Transforming Teaching and Learning

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is already changing education. It’s no longer a futuristic idea reserved for tech companies or high-level research; it's now actively enhancing classrooms and benefiting teachers and students every day. But what does AI in the classroom really mean for educators, and how can it practically help both teachers and learners?

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Darshana Amarsi
Will This Make the Boat Go Faster?

In education, performance is often tied to academic outcomes, compliance, and efficiency. But in reality, high performance in schools isn’t about doing more—it’s about doing what matters, together.

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Darshana Amarsi
The Middle Years - They are unique and they matter!

The middle years, from around age ten to fifteen, span the years from childhood to adolescence. Young adolescents during this time experience a range of significant physical, cognitive, emotional, social, and moral changes.

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From Coping to Flourishing: Rethinking Resilience in School Leadership

In education, we admire the people who just keep going. The ones who power through, hold it all together, and never seem to miss a beat. But what if resilience—and “keeping going”—isn’t just about surviving the pressure? What if it’s really about creating the conditions to flourish?

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Darshana Amarsi
The Restorative Future of Student Engagement

It’s a dangerous, although entirely understandable, habit to look to the past for answers when it comes to improving matters of student behaviour in the classroom and the plummeting levels of engagement or respect experienced by Australia’s teachers.

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New conference stream to support aspiring leaders

A day-long sequence of workshops introduced at National Education Summit in Melbourne will unpack research-informed practices and approaches to school improvement and what this implies about effective leadership.

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Darshana Amarsi
Virtual Reality: Enhancing Learning Outcomes Beyond the AI Hype 

In the current educational landscape, Artificial Intelligence (AI) dominates the conversation. While AI undoubtedly holds potential, another powerful technology is quietly revolutionising student learning: Virtual Reality (VR).

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Darshana Amarsi