by Carolyn | Jan 21, 2025 | Education, Teaching
It is time that Universities took responsibility for their own recruitment. The single most important and helpful policy change that is needed in Australia, is for universities to be responsible for their own recruitment. They put time, money and energy into...
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 | Sep 4, 2024 | Education, Mentoring and Coaching, Teaching
I was thinking about the downside of referring to teaching as a ‘calling’ when I came across a fascinating blog post from 2015. Written and updated by John Merrow, as the title suggests, it discussed the correct naming of teaching, Is Teaching a Profession, an...
by Carolyn | Jan 24, 2024 | Mentoring and Coaching, School leaders, Teaching
School leaders, we hear you. Staff shortages are no joke, and relying on out-of-field teachers can feel like a gamble. But what if you could transform them into confident, effective educators without spending a fortune on individual coaching? What do we mean by...
by Carolyn | Aug 14, 2023 | Teaching
Context We have all been benefiting from AI for quite some time, albeit most of us didn’t know. Think Siri and Alexa, Netflix and Spotify, search engines and analytics, natural language processing and fraud detection. However it became a really hot topic when...
by Carolyn | Mar 11, 2023 | Education, Literature, Teaching
I don’t know if it is just me, as a mother of grown up twin boys, but I get the distinct impression that popular movies, of the last couple decades, have been largely connected to the Marvel and DC universes. I do enjoy the movies, though I have seen fewer now that...
