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Bree Hills
Bree Hills
How Bree Hills revived Canberra Christian School When Bree Hills returned to Canberra to raise her son after a teaching and corporate career, the born and bred Canberran thought it would be good if he went to Canberra Christian School.
Free OSMOs
Free OSMOs
50 Osmo sets to be won Osmo which brings animation and coding to the ipad and fire tablet is giving away 50 Osmo sets free, yup free, beats an Easter egg, you just have to be a teacher
Tech lessons
Tech lessons
Activities from fintech experts downloadable The Girls4Tech™ program which has been designed to encourage girls into STEAM has made available a suite of educational resources built on global science and math standards.
Literacy fail
Literacy fail
Government literacy program in remote schools has negative effect A $30-million Federal Government program designed to improve literacy for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students in very remote schools has failed.
Doors closed library open
Doors closed library open
State Library Victoria doors closed, resources very open Australia’s oldest public library is offering free access to a range of collections, eresources and online services while its physical doors are closed.
ATARs a go
ATARs a go
Experts call for ATAR equity measures States and the Commonwealth have agreed that students will graduate with ATARs and the cohort will not have to repeat the year.
Virtual careers expo
Virtual careers expo
Australia’s first ever virtual national careers expo Torrens University Australia has joined forces with universities and higher education institutions to organise the nation’s first ever virtual careers expo.
Keeping them busy
Keeping them busy
Skills and thrills encourages activities while at home Online camps via Skills and Thrills make sure that kids aren’t stuck in front of the telly or playing video games all day.
Limbo for lessons
Limbo for lessons
Limbo for teachers causing a planning headache In the background of the ‘should we close schools?’ debate, teachers around Australia are frantically trying to prepare months of lesson plans for students at home. Whilst this limbo may be unavoidable, it is creating a headache for teachers
Mark Ritterman, co-founder of MAPPEN
Sky speed internet
Sky speed internet
Wireless solution provides reliable Internet speeds to 1 Gbps Two very different schools – one in country Victoria and another in Melbourne’s inner east – faced the same problem; a shortfall in Internet reliability which was compromising their increasingly IT dependent teaching approach.
Take the leap
Take the leap
Career planning for educators Working with educators and executives across a range of school systems, dynamics and positions, we find many are lacking both the time and knowledge to position themselves for their next step, or to even contemplate what that might look like
Kathryn Taylor, Director and Owner, Turning Point Consulting
Resources and experiences free
Resources and experiences free
Resources and virtual experiences for locked down kids Merlin Entertainments ANZ, owner and operator of SEA LIFE Aquariums, WILD LIFE Sydney Zoo and other first rate attractions have launched a free education resource portal ‘Merlin’s Education Toolbox’.