Happy New Year … 2023. Thank you for reading and subscribing to this blog. I just loved the end of 2021 and the whole of 2022 (sure there were some bumpy bits) BUT the bliss is because we had THREE tiny people editions to our family. Lovely. Quick update: hooray, my colleague Dr Don Carter…
Thrilled to be invited to speak at the recent Teachers’ Guild of New South Wales Forum. Catch my talk here
Media interest in last Friday’s August 12th Education Ministers Meeting in Canberra continues. Today on ABC News Radio morning presenter Mandy Presland asked me for some solutions to the shortage of teachers in rural and remote schools plus we talked about new incentives, entry requirements to ITE and whether Australia is being ‘dumbed down’ ……
Today is a very sad day for public education in NSW. Murray Kitteringham, Principal of Sir Joseph Banks High School died suddenly this morning. The outpouring on social media especially Twitter lamenting the shocking news of his death is devastating – overwhelming numbers of kind messages indicate the enormous professional regard Murray was held in…
A new book On Teaching: For New Graduates by star teacher Bianca Hewes is out. As a teacher educator I have followed Bianca’s career for many years. She has contributed generously to research studies I have conducted in schools; we have presented keynote addresses together at national edtech conferences, she has shared her wisdom with…
In April 2022 Emerald Publishing invited me to write a piece for their Opinion and Blog pages*. The post features the blueprint for High Possibility STEM Schools. There are TEN directions in the blueprint and each one is defined by a substantive outline based on data from research. Have a look – there is more…
