A daily check-in routine gives middle and high school teachers a chance to ensure that every student feels seen and supported.

Chris Fagan’s 10 years as senior coach have transformed not simply the Brisbane Lions, but the clubs’ conception of what matters in coaching.

The kind of education students are being exposed to at Alpha Schools is nothing short of shocking, according to the latest reporting.

“A science experiment that’s been framed as a school” - “pretty much a concentration camp” - “cool the first few months and then it just becomes shit”

Schools have a rare opportunity to bring unresolved questions about AI and classroom technology into the open. The cost of leaving them unanswered is too high.

“Explicit instruction” has become the key focus for Australian schooling policy for several years now. It is invoked with enough confidence by ministers, curriculum authorities and the Australian Education Research Organisation (AERO) that it can feel like a settled empirical fact rather than a contested truth claim.  What is less often noticed is that the …

Jamie Beaton has 12 advanced degrees from Harvard, Yale, Oxford and other top universities, with more on the way. In his spare time, he founded a company worth $840 million.

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has released the latest edition of the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). Following the unprecedented drop in per...

Compared to the rest of the world, Australian classrooms are more disrupted and less welcoming than those in most comparable systems.  Australia holds up reasonably well in learning outcomes across the OECD’s PISA 2025 report – with averages of 509 in science, 491 in reading, 478 in mathematics, and 532 in computational problem solving–well above …

Critics say the one size-fits-all approach doesn’t work for all students and there are questions about the body that has been pushing it

Recent meta-analyses and research have shown that reasoning-focused models (OpenAI's o1 and GPT-4) outperform medical students on examinations, clearly and systematically beating the median score and,...

AI is not the first time that advances in information technology have caused disruption. And each time we've just kept on swimming

No one wants to mark essays written by AI. Neither staff nor students want a culture of suspicion. Nor do they want reputations and the value of degrees to suffer.

Recent meta-analyses and research have shown that reasoning-focused models (OpenAI's o1 and GPT-4) outperform medical students on examinations, clearly and systematically beating the median score and,...

Younger teens typically experience a dip in school engagement. Electives can help them stay excited about learning.

AI is changing what, where, and how testing happens. How can schools, teachers, and test developers respond?

Recent meta-analyses and research have shown that reasoning-focused models (OpenAI's o1 and GPT-4) outperform medical students on examinations, clearly and systematically beating the median score and,...

Setting clear, shared expectations around student AI use is uncharted territory for many teachers. Educators across disciplines and grade levels share their current policies.

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Inspired by Remida, the creative reuse center in Reggio Emilia, every school can and should have a student-led materials library for use in projects. There are lots of precedents for such initiatives.

The growing backlash against AI-saturated classrooms has created a renewed sense of exploration into analog learning methods.

For the past few years, I have ended the school year with a list. One reflection for every year I have worked in education. It has become a bit of a ritual for me. A way to mark the end of the year…

For teachers, their unions, and the policymakers who shape the conditions in which they work, the question is no longer whether AI will shape education, but how that shaping will be governed. The pur...

Small classroom changes and gestures that emphasize relationships, growth, and well-being can have a big impact on students.

The robot future began as a fear of the machine; it should end as a question about the humans we are teaching.

The evidence has been accumulating for decades. Your child’s curiosity didn’t disappear by accident.

Spending time with students, teachers, and parents gives administrators a 360-degree view of what the community thinks, feels, and needs.

Demonstrators are increasingly employing inflatable costumes and whimsy. But behind the dress up, these protesters argue it is "serious play".