“What I like most about our library is that it is like a ‘safe zone’ for all students. Like in a video game when you spawn at your base, or on a certain ship no one can…
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For many decades there has been a lack of agreement regarding how to best describe children presenting with language difficulties (Bishop et al., 2016). This has subsequently led to….
Read More“Trust takes years to build, seconds to break and forever to repair”
When you meet someone for the first time, how do you know what they are telling you is truthful?
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As teachers and educators, we know all too well the immense pressure placed upon our time. With the language of school term being a chance to ‘come up for air’ and to push aside the overwhelm, if only for a…
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Children learn through play and discovery. Providing curious and interesting activities across the curriculum gives students opportunities to share their understanding and build…
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In Part 1, the challenges relating to the identification of our twice-exceptional children were discussed, in addition to many strategies which may be effective in supporting the development of the ‘whole child.’…
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It’s just a regular day in your classroom. All your Year 5 students arrive on the bell, greet each other, unpack their schoolbags, sit at their tables, and read their novel…
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Over the past decade there has been a significant shift in how we understand conditions such as autism and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
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Literacy is a vital skill for the 21st century and it is imperative for student mastery of practice that it is embedded across the curriculum. An important aspect of teacher librarianship is to support the development of literacy across the curriculum.
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Life is a journey. Some might say, being a teacher librarian is a life and journey of itself - a lifelong journey. My journey commenced in 2018 and is one I couldn’t have done, let alone start, without my mentors…
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In the world of education, we are passionate about our capacity to help our youngest, most vulnerable, most potential-filled humans to thrive…
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How do you create an engaging, meaningful STEM program? A big question that isn’t so easily answered.
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William Glasser acknowledges that “there [are] no doubt….some teachers who are more skilful at motivating than [others; however,] there is no teacher, no matter how skilled, who can teach a student who does not want to learn”…
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I am so excited to be coming back to the National Education Summit in 2022! In person conferences – hooray! The Summit is also a most excellent opportunity to mentor my friend and colleague, Kathy Talbot…
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Learning about and presenting on school assessment is as mad as a bag of hammers, to mix a metaphor. The purpose of assessment in schools is very muddy.
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Over the last two years, boardrooms have become dining tables and classrooms have become bedrooms, as the world shifted to an unprecedented life online…
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Schools today are grappling with many complex social issues which can impact negatively on student wellbeing and achievement.
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Friendships are central to our students’ lives and are among the most important relationships they experience, in school and beyond.
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Libraries thrive on change. Everyone has a story about the changes they have seen in their school library. Some of these stories are inspiring; tales of quickly taking up new technologies, building beautiful makerspaces…
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We go to the gym to improve our fitness, take short courses to learn new skills, and read books to increase our knowledge, but how often do we pay attention to improving our spatial reasoning skills?
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