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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young three times more likely to be homeless Indigenous youth report high rates of homelessness, bullying and exposure to social problems. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people are nearly three times more likely than their non-Indigenous youth to have experienced living with no fixed address, lived in a refuge or in transitional accommodation at some stage.

COVID-safe school holiday camps from home Kids activities provider Skills and Thrills has launch of its new Home Camps offering created during COVID-19 to help parents occupy their kids during school holidays while they work from home. 

Connecting schools boosts performance A peer group of schools that can exchange ideas and draw inspiration from each other’s experience has boosted the performance of the schools involved.

Software can reduce Covid-19 outbreaks in schools by 36 per cent A tool released by Melbourne-based edtech start-up, Class Solver, is a good way of reducing the severity of an outbreak in a classroom by reducing the number of contacts an infected child might have.

Five simple strategies for improving your students’ reading habits The real way forward is to find tangible strategies to establish and sustain an engaging reading environment for students.

Inspiring kids to fail: The entrepreneurial mindset for the future Becoming, and being, an entrepreneur is hard work, and a lot of it has to do with embracing failure as the catalyst for success.

$2,500 in prize money in First Pitch For Kids 2020 comp Young entrepreneurs pitch their ideas for the chance to win a generous cash prize.

Learning how to learn: Metaskills are higher-order skills that lay the foundations for learning Metaskills are higher-order skills that lay the foundations for learning and succeeding at almost anything in life. Essentially, skills that help us to acquire skills.

Poor air quality has drastic effect on student learning A classroom with poor lighting or inadequate heating rarely goes unnoticed. But until recently, good air quality wasn’t on the radar of most Australian educators.

Dystech screens for dyslexia with machine learning Australian startup Dystech has created Dyscreen, a simple to use but tech heavy screening app for dyslexia.

Frenemies can do the most harm – Peer Aggression and Wellbeing Study Bullying by close friends can be dismissed as horseplay, but when it becomes exclusion or rumour spreading the hurt is amplified.

How teachers can engage students learning from home Teachers are very familiar with the challenge of keeping students engaged in the classroom, however keeping them interested and on task when they are learning remotely takes this challenge to a whole new level.