November InBrief: Leadership snippets from around the country

EducationHQ News Team

By EducationHQ News Team
Published November 21, 2014

Know of an excellent example of Leadership in your community? We'd love to hear from you. Email your brief 60 word story to classroom@educationhq.com.au

Intentional leadership

BRISBANE - Leadership expert Dr Jane Kise visited Brisbane to conduct a two-day Intentional School Leadership workshop with Independent ...

This story appeared in the November 2014 edition of Australian Teacher Magazine.

Director of Community Engagement: Redlands (NSW)

Hutton Consulting Southbank VIC

Redlands seeks an accomplished, highly relational executive to lead community engagement and advancement across the School. • Executive leadership of enrolments, comm...

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Principal: St John’s College, Preston (VIC)

Hutton Consulting Southbank VIC

St John’s College seeks an experienced educational leader who steps purposefully forward, with nous, to realise potential & secure a thriving future. • Visibly stew...

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Behaviour Support Worker

Veritas South East London

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School news / Keeping up with smart glasses: how the tech could affect your school

The growing popularity of smart glasses, and the concerning emergence of budget options, is raising questions about whether Australian laws and communities are prepared for the widespread adoption of the technology.

School news / Sweltering summers and heatwaves linked to poorer mental health in kids: new research

As record-breaking heat grips communities worldwide and Australia prepares for an intense El Niño summer, new research provides the first global review linking high temperatures and heatwaves to poorer mental health in children and young people.

Opinion / More mandates are not the answer to stagnating NAPLAN results: opinion

Every August, the same ritual plays out. NAPLAN results are released, and within hours the negative stories emerge.

School news / Our big challenge is learning how to use AI without outsourcing our own thinking

As governments and technology companies here and overseas move to rebuild public trust in artificial intelligence through new regulation and transparency measures, one educational neuroscientist says they’re addressing only half the problem.

School news / Essential and free for schools: practical financial literacy workshops are changing lives

A report last year confirmed what many economists and finance experts have long feared: Australia has failed to build strong foundations in financial literacy across the generations, and it should set off alarm bells across the nation.

School news / Suspend the use of AI and 1:1 devices in schools: teachers, parents launch new petition

A public petition calling for generative AI to be removed from Australian schools and a return to device-free learning is quickly gaining momentum.

School news / NAPLAN 2026: push for pen and paper tests as literacy results dive

A return to pen and paper testing is among the options being considered by education ministers in a bid to correct plummeting literacy and numeracy results.

School news / NAPLAN numeracy: Year 3 slump raises alarm on curriculum and instruction

Despite some green shoots in Australian students’ numeracy outcomes, this year’s national NAPLAN data has revealed a concerning pocket of decline at Year 3, prompting alarm amongst experts and policymakers.

School news / Community confidence in quality of schools at risk under Government plan: unions

The Northern Territory Government’s plan for a radical shakeup of teacher regulation risks undermining community confidence in the quality of NT schools, according a chorus of key education stakeholders.

Opinion / An evolving beast: the question missing from the NAPLAN debate

Every year, Australia has the same conversation.

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