As a principal, you often learn lessons the hard way, and practice is the best teacher.
   I learned quickly that I had to work tirelessly on effective communication and community relations.
   When you communicate effectively, you inspire optimism and hope in others. Part of your role is to set the tone and climate in your school and highly effective principals employ well­ crafted, effective communications. Read more

To a greater or lesser degree, trouble seems to be present in most people’s lives from the very young on up.
   Dealing with emotion and stress is often left to the individual and arriving at something that works can be a somewhat mysterious, lonely process.
   But these coping skills can be taught and if that is done early an individual will become better at dealing with big emotions. Read more

Jajoo Warrngara: The Culture Classroom, is an online resource created to help educators embed authentic First Nations perspectives in primary and secondary school classrooms. 
   Created in collaboration with eleven First Nations partner communities and First Nations not-for-profit SharingStories, Jajoo Warrngara provides teachers access to place-based, community-led teaching resources that have been co-created, co-designed and approved by communities. Read more

With jobs of the future demanding workers be innovative, critical and creative thinkers, Haileybury Enterprise Academy has launched in collaboration with HEX, a Melbourne-based, ed tech that provides innovation and entrepreneurship courses, towards fostering a new crop of innovative businesspeople.
   After completing the Haileybury Enterprise Academy, students can receive ‘recognition of prior learning’ in various business courses at pre-approved universities. Read more

Nathan Nguyen, a 17-year-old student at Cavendish Road State High School, Brisbane, Queensland, has been named a top 10 finalist for the Chegg.org Global Student Prize 2022.
   A $100,000 award will be given to the winning student who has made a real impact on learning, the lives of their peers and on society beyond.
  Nathan, who moved to Australia from Vietnam at the age of 12, was selected from over 7,000 nominations. Read more

Childhood bereavement is a significant and often overlooked social and public health issue in Australia.
   Most children spend more awake hours at school than they do at home and for those who are grieving, the school environment can be particularly hard to navigate without the right help, support and understanding from educators, classmates or non-teaching
staff.
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