Great headline…and article! www.newscientist.com/article/2517...

“AI can’t feel the room. It can’t sense when a student needs encouragement, or when a joke will break the tension.” Students won’t remember which AI model they used… they’ll remember who taught them to think without one. learnerstudio.org/what-does-it...

“Four lessons for educators: defending moral purpose in education development; learning from constructive “good trouble”; responding courageously to unexpected opportunities to lead and learn; and reframing disappointment as a source of renewal and possibility.” www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Words matter! These teacher-tested phrases go a long way in empowering learners and creating a supportive classroom. 🧡 Are there any you’d add to the list?

The most valuable skill of the future: Knowing how to talk to AI. Chatbots diagnosed medical problems correctly 94% of the time when researchers asked, but only 34% when regular people asked. The gap isn't the technology, it's the prompt. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/w...

Here is my story (open access) about the making of an education warrior. It is probably not what you expect. I leave it to you to judge. Published today by Elsevier's International Journal of Educational Development. lnkd.in/gGBKuhkt

“If any company or group, anywhere on the planet, builds an artificial superintelligence using anything remotely like current techniques, based on anything remotely like the present understanding of AI, then everyone, everywhere on earth, will die.” www.penguin.com.au/books/if-any...

New research on system-wide change. Real-World Learning, a project-based pedagogy disrupts the traditional “grammar of schooling,” reshapes curriculum & assessment, and reconnects school to community. A powerful case for moving beyond outdated models. www.tandfonline.com/eprint/5XIWJ...

📚 From phone bans boosting grades to microbreaks, handwriting > typing, AI cuts SPED paperwork but hurts writer recall, and the power of relationships, recess & productive struggle. Research worth reading.

"The future will not reward schools that plan harder. It will reward schools that choose more deliberately who they are becoming." morningtide.com.au/insights/are...

"Dependence on AI has created students who can’t think, can’t write, can’t create. For hundreds of years education has been a decidedly linear process: memorise the content, write the assignment, take the test, rinse and repeat." www.theaustralian.com.au/weekend-aust...

"If systems prize uniformity, they privilege explicit directives regarding acceptable teaching practices. If systems value professional judgements to meet students in their context, they invest in expert teachers." blog.aare.edu.au/setting-the-...

Might get me in trouble... UDL and inclusion without assessment reform is an unnecessary, unproductive, and undue burden on the back of teachers.

“The pedagogy of emergent curriculum is grounded in the idea that when we use the children’s questions to guide their learning experiences, we honor the children’s intrinsic motivation and teach them that curiosity is a meaningful way to explore their world.” #preschool #PreK

Informal team teaching can have huge benefits! Consider: having a regular partner teacher for observations, collaborating on a project, or working with teachers at other schools over the computer. 🤝 #EduSky

Really great new paper using agent-based modelling to show how an exploratory childhood can lead to innovation in the population at large. royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

I really wish there was a column in teacher observation forms for "were students smiling and laughing?" because, at the end of the day, that might matter the most

Letter to the System is a youth-made short film grounded in The Power of Recognising More research. It shows why our education system is no longer fit for purpose, what real systemic change requires, and what a truly equitable future of learning could be. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Nan...

Excited to have contributed to this publication. Thanks @icsei.bsky.social for the opportunity.

"Candidates with liberal arts degrees 'might have been deprioritised in the past' but they had more 'truly novel’ ways of thinking that would complement some AI models’ inability to make 'discontinuous leaps' in logic." www.ft.com/content/de78... #AI #TOK #KnowledgeAndTechnology

AI is eating the career of every creative whose work can be easily described, modeled and predicted. Spend time learning how to think along orthogonal, unpredictable, new (or forgotten) paths... make your mind hard to model. @bruces from the mist times: bruces.medium.com/the-wonderfu...

Here's my latest Substack post, titled "The Polycrisis: How to Face Teaching in 2026." open.substack.com/pub/susandbl... #education #pedagogy #polycrisis

The old leadership playbook no longer works. What replaces it rests on a simple but demanding principle: energy follows attention & intention. Form follows consciousness. Which implies that you cannot change a system unless you transform the mindsets of the people who are enacting it. Otto Scharmer

"The more a student talked in class, the better they performed in a reading literacy test." www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

“My best advice for other leaders going into 2026 is to learn how to live with uncertainty.” Michael Hendrix — Managing Director, Invisible Notes. “Don’t get stuck romanticizing what was. Fall in love with what can be.” Sara Kalick— Founder, The Possible.

Young boy reading book in a ruined bookshop in London devastated by an air raid - 1940

Endorsements for Cultivating Cultures of Thinking in Australian Schools Tina Blythe: “theoretically grounded, practical, and full of hope.” Kath Murdoch: “A timely, powerful collection—I hope it’s in every staff room.” Melbourne launch 13 Feb, Wesley College: events.humanitix.com/cultivating-...

"Educational leaders are expected to foster transformation while maintaining accountability; encourage risk-taking within standardised systems; and integrate digital technologies amid infrastructural deficits." www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Summer holiday reading pile

*Dirtbag Billionaire* by David Gelles. 🌍 Patagonia prioritises lasting products over fast fashion. ⚖️ They confront sustainability’s contradictions. 🛑 Their “Don’t Buy This Jacket” campaign urged reflection. Organisations grounded in strong values can resist extractive systems.

"Is prescribing centrally what every student must learn in each grade of school and testing to see whether they have learnt it the way to optimise learning and improve national performance?"

🇦🇺🕯️🇺🇦“We came here from Ukraine. Matilda was my first born Australia. I thought that 'Matilda' is the most Australian name that can ever exist, so just remember the name, remember her” said Matilda’s father.

You may know better than to use an AI extension on a browser, but in case you have a friend or relative who needs to know this...

Erik Lindemann seems to always find new angles, purposes, uses, and ideas for using thinking routines to maximum effect. CoT Summit attendee will be inspired by learn from and with him.

Ferguson has given some prefects the portfolio of school culture. "Their responsibility is to stop the rank protection if they start to hear about it, and I want them to build the collective efficacy of the year group and make sure that everybody’s included." www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...

With scaffolding and support, this school creates a pathway for students to lead their own IEP meetings, and become active participants in making decisions about the future. 💪 #SpecialEducation #EduSky

The best school leaders and teachers have several things in common, says author Liz Wiseman. “They create an environment where people want to learn and contribute. They ask good questions and they spotlight people’s good work.” Here’s how. 🏫 #SchoolLeaders #Principals #EduSky

When teachers are offered opportunities for intellectually demanding professional learning, participation and satisfaction increase. Intellectual wellbeing enables teachers to resist reductive systems and reclaim teaching as a creative profession. patrickgalexander.org/2023/03/03/i...

NAPLAN has helped create a monster that has come back to haunt the governments that created it. Dean Ashenden challenges AARE to broker a Fix NAPLAN collaboration. https://loom.ly/vpd3N88

“Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see.” — Postman Our new book shares how educators are shifting from control to curiosity. Launch dates: Mel 13 Feb | Syd 20 Feb | Adel 12 Mar | Bris 27 Apr www.routledge.com/Cultivating-...

The “debate”. My @smh @theage cartoon.

Rethinking “evidence-based practice” — honouring the complexity of teaching and elevating educator voice in how evidence shapes schooling. 🎧📚 ses.library.usyd.edu.au/bitstream/ha...

“More than half of government secondary students miss a month of school a year, with many claiming it is because what they’re being taught is not relevant.”

“The treatment of Aboriginal people was a mistake. We can recover from mistakes. Just talk to young people about plants and animals and that will change everything. Start growing Australian plants. We have knowledge.” Bruce Pascoe at Cool.org Biodiversity in Action

What if schooling asked not what students must know, but who we want them to become? Agile leadership, trust, and a Culture of Thinking are reshaping modern education. 📘 Book out now: www.routledge.com/Cultivating-... 🚀 Book launch coming 2026!

“Everyone matters; everyone is needed. In an interconnected world, no one is healthy until everyone is healthy. No one is free until everyone is free.” ssir.org/articles/ent...

"The way we pay attention to a situation, individually and collectively, determines the path the system takes and how it emerges." www.dailygood.org/story/450/un...

Two-thirds of California's power comes from clean energy. For 9 in 10 days so far this year, we were 100% powered for some part of the day by clean energy. The Golden State has become the world's fourth-largest economy because of our climate leadership, not in spite of it.