Literacy is one of the core goals of education, and school libraries are uniquely positioned to provide leadership in literacy promotion to their educational community.

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What do you love most about school libraries? For you, maybe it’s a memory of a cherished special corner to disappear to at lunchtime, or a book you came back to over and over.

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Apple’s newest iOS 14 update for the iPhone and iPad include major improvements, many of which will be useful for teaching and learning.

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How often have you said the phrase, “I just want to be happy.” Yet have you ever stopped, even just for a brief moment to consider exactly what happiness really is?

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For the last 5 years I have been making videos for my students, explaining concepts, correcting common errors, and making content more accessible and convenient. I’ve produced more than 600 videos during this time…

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“When libraries provide access to books and impetus to read, they are potentially influencing students’ life outcomes.” Says Dr. Margaret Merga

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Society is recognising the importance of teachers being trained in the area of student mental health. Training in this area is being mandated by many education and government agencies.

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I began my professional birth in the world of Education, but my professional growth did not begin until I moved into the World of Learning. There was no catapult from one world into the other. It was and is a journey of relationships, attachment and reflection.

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Here’s the perfect opportunity to positively affect the education of the country and bring black and white Australians towards an understanding of each other. The United Nations has designated the 2022 to 2032 as the International Decade of Indigenous Languages – calling the world to ‘take urgent steps…

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It is often remarked during the design process for new spaces and buildings in schools that learning precedes pedagogy which precedes space. At its best, a participatory design process will air all the aspirations and challenges, all the constraints and frustrations…

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We all know someone who’s a sceptic. Not in the tin-foil-hat, ‘the moon landing was fake’ sense of the word. Not even in the ‘cynic’ sense of the word. Just more in the way that they like to see things with their own two eyes…

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I flip all of my classes. After several years of flipping some of my Mathematics classrooms, I decided at the start of one particular year that I could not justify not flipping the lot.

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Opening lines are important. Some of them are short, like that one, and some are much longer. They carry as much weight as any line in a book because an opening line is our first real impression of a story’s tone.

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I’ve heard it said that boys don’t read, and there might be many who don’t read. It’s been fascinating to see how reading and book clubs have grown over the past few years at Padua.

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Australian primary and secondary schools receiving funding through the NCCD scheme are required to keep records when they adjust or implement a teaching plan at the individual level.

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