Retired High School Principal - Social Justice Warrior. Passionate about great teaching and learning locally, nationally and internationally. I love to travel.
When teachers are put on casual contracts we know we’ve got a problem. On weekends we’d bump into my daughters 1st grade teacher working at Bunnings to make up for the salary he’d miss during the term break. This is what casual work has become, not just teenagers serving coffee.
Hey Principals, when u get ur pompous ‘stamp out bullying’ letter from our PM please reply by asking him to get parliament to start setting a good example for students rather than the opposite. You’re welcome.
School “grades,” “report cards” and rating systems show parents very little about the quality of schools, but they contribute to economic segregation, Jan Resseger's study finds https://t.co/FUkZmkaI57 @DrTonyWagner@alfiekohn@HargreavesBC via @NEPCtweet
How do teachers in Australia cope? Politicians have been interfering in what Australian teachers teach for decades, then they began to tell our teachers how to teach. Now we have media commentators and broadcasters telling teachers how to teach. Trust our teachers, let them teach