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 For Education Leaders
Bored or Burned out? Re-imagining School Facilities to better Support Teachers and Students  The invitation to work hard will only resonate if students are rewarded with a sense of empowerment and joy. Performance without joy yields a miserable workforce. Joy without effort eliminates the satisfaction of accomplishment. We should shift the creativity teachers bring to their own classrooms into a more communal realm by imagining schools that physically embody communities of practice. Read more Tired and Emotional - Teachers Need Support but are Often Silent  Teaching is a caring profession, it's emotional if it is being done well, but there is a toll, teachers give and give but their emotional needs are often left by the wayside. The Impact of Physical Activity on Youth Wellbeing: ‘Big 6’ Breakdown Blog Series  This article is the second in a six-part series, covering “The Big 6:” the six key modifiable health behaviours that play a critical role in both physical and mental health for youth, now and in the long-term.  The Band that Brought a School Community Together  When a band is really cooking, it’s tight, in time and cohesive there are fewer finer sights. The Long Way to an MBA  Looking at Shanti Procopis, a senior marketer working on accounts like Optus and Apple, Ruth Palmer a board member and leader in government, advocacy, and policy and Ben Martin a sales manager in food manufacturing at All Natural Kitchen, you would be pressed to see anything but three MBAs. But there was a time when things were different, Procopis went to the kind of high school where the focus was on “learning to survive”. Read more Nothing Like Homegrown  The ‘Grow Your Own’ (GYO) teaching programs from Charles Sturt focus on recognising the prior learning and knowledge of School Learning Support Officers (SLSOs) and providing flexible, supported and online learning pathways to help them become qualified teachers in regional and rural schools. 
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