by Carolyn | Jan 15, 2025 | Education, School leaders, Students, Teaching
Optimism from the classroom vs. pessimism in mainstream discourse. If you have access to the myriad education conversations and collaborations on LinkedIn or spend time visiting some of the thousands of classrooms led by gifted teachers across the globe, you would be...
by Carolyn | Jan 22, 2022 | covid-19, Education, School leaders, Students, Teaching
It actually breaks my heart that for the 3rd year in a row our schools in Australia, and the gifted educators who run them, are faced with uncertainty. Our educators deserve better and the students and parents they serve definitely deserve better. In an article I...
by Carolyn | Aug 11, 2020 | covid-19, Students, Teaching
We need to stop the noise about students falling behind during these lockdowns. It is a useful political tool as parents are easily triggered by threats to the children. But it is just noise and the question we need to ask is: Behind what? There seems to...
by Carolyn | Apr 24, 2020 | Students, Teaching
Prior to any discussion about the opening of schools and childcare centres, it is critical to understand a couple of things. The first is that, no teacher in either sector resents being at work to care for the children of nurses, doctors, paramedics and any of...
by Carolyn | Aug 23, 2019 | EdTech, English, Students, Teaching
We Teach Well was fortunate to receive a Global Victoria and EduGrowth sponsorship to the 2019 EduTECH conference in Sydney back in June. It was certainly an experience. I had been to other EdTech events but nothing came close to this. For Judy it was her first foray...
by Carolyn | Aug 9, 2019 | EdTech, English, Students, Teaching
Last year I attended the MAP18 launch. Map is highly regarded accelerator program in Melbourne that is hard to get into. Startups go through a rigorous selection process and the 10 teams chosen get some equity free investment and lots of mentoring and stuff. It was at...
