Bright lights lead the way

Danielle Kutchel

By Danielle Kutchel
Published February 1, 2019

Enterprising students from Westlake Girls High School have enjoyed great success in the national Tahi Rua Toru Tech Challenge.

As schools around New Zealand continue to implement the Digital Technologies and Hangarau Matihiko curriculum, they and other organisations are ...

This story appeared in the Term 4 2018 edition of LeadershipEd.

Educational Leader

Story House Early Learning Stones Corner QLD

Explore how we enhance and support our Story House-ers careers at our Worthington Place service, proudly certified as a Great Place to Work!

Childcare & Outside School Hours Care / Apr 24, 2024

Story House Early Learning Roma St Brisbane QLD

Explore how we enhance and support our Story House-ers careers at our Roma St service, proudly certified as a Great Place to Work!

Childcare & Outside School Hours Care / Apr 24, 2024

Teacher Technology - Liverpool Girls High School

Liverpool Girls High School Liverpool

Teaching - Secondary / Apr 24, 2024

School news / WA teachers walk off the job over pay and conditions

Thousands of teachers from more than 80 public schools across Western Australia stopped work on Tuesday morning, resulting in 22 schools closing fully and 62 remaining partially open.

Opinion / Too much summative assessment means students value performance over learning

Assessment has always been a critical aspect of the teaching and learning cycle with ideas around the frequency and best forms of assessment explored from a range of educational perspectives.

School news / Sensory incursion ignites storytelling for students with special needs

Young children living with disability might sometimes struggle to access the full richness of popular stories – but a thriving incursion program is changing the literary game in WA special schools.

School news / Govt announces new resources to assist autistic children to thrive

Minister for Social Services Amanda Rishworth has announced the release of a suite of best-practice resources developed by Autism CRC.

School news / Religious discrimination laws could pass within next few months: Federal Labor

The Federal Government will move to get religious discrimination laws passed in the middle of the year, with Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus saying the issue can’t be dragged out.

School news / NSW Police get push-back on call to jail parents for kids' knives

A push for stricter knife laws that will create fresh criminal offences for parents whose kids have been caught with weapons has been slammed as out of touch and damaging to families.

School news / Fed and Qld Govts co-fund new project to tackle workload pressures

The Federal and Queensland Governments are jointly funding a $1.88 million pilot program in sunshine state public schools in an effort to reduce teacher workloads.

School news / Govt has tossed school refusal in the ‘too-hard basket’: Greens

The Government has handed down its response to the Senate inquiry into Australia’s growing crisis of school refusal, and some say it’s left families impacted by the problem without much hope.

School news / ‘Untenable’: behaviour expert slams those against exclusions in primary schools

The UK’s ‘Behaviour Tsar’ Tom Bennett has taken aim at ‘armchair voyeurs’ who boldly advocate for no suspensions or expulsions in primary schools.

School news / Pay offer ‘a little on the insulting side’: WA teachers prepare to strike

Western Australia’s public primary and high school teachers are poised to take strike action next week over their pay and work conditions.

Comments