“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.

"We are now living in the age of consequences. They are the consequences of the Consumer Story. They cannot be solved from within its logic; and so the story is breaking." www.amazon.com.au/Citizens-Why...

Already in our university's library! Looking forward to reading it!

"If teachers are controlled, they control. If teachers are empowered to inquire and innovate, they do the same for students." — Gill & Gagliano 📖 Cultivating Cultures of Thinking in Australian Schools — out now. Stay tuned for a 2026 launch! ✦ www.routledge.com/Cultivating-...

Nature journaling, the research suggests, can deliver excellent benefits across grade levels. Not only can it teach critical thinking skills, but it improves focus and connects students to the outdoors. 🌳 🧵1/11

The more girls in a class, the merrier. Data on 87k students: In cohorts with more girls, boys and girls have better mental health. More female peers predicts closer friendships for boys—and better body image & STEM grades for girls. Girls build cultures of competence and care.

"Increasingly, we are “done to” rather than listened to. If we do not articulate what we do and why we do it, others will narrow the scope of our work, our spaces, and our impact." community.acel.org.au/blogs/camero...

Neuroscientist Mary Helen Immordino-Yang spoke with Edutopia’s @stephenmerrill.bsky.social about why adolescent students search for deeper meaning—and what that tells us about designing schools that engage teens. Read the conversation here 👇 #EduSky

What really drives long-term improvement in education systems? Llasting reform doesn’t happen through command and control. It happens when those closest to learners have the capability, agency, and capacity to lead change themselves. www.thirdstory.org/thoughts-ins...

— @marcusluther.bsky.social

Lisa Delpit describes warm demanders as teachers who “expect a great deal of their students, convince them of their own brilliance, and help them to reach their potential in a disciplined and structured environment.” www.edutopia.org/article/how-...

“Write your own job description.” For senior roles, we ditched interviews, psychometric tests & pre-set JD’s. Candidates wrote 500-word visions & presented them to staff & students. Result? Original, creative, insightful applications. www.peoplemanagement.co.uk/article/1934...

Join @mesterman.bsky.social, co-author of The Next Word, for a session on how AI can give educators an almost-unfair advantage: smarter planning, better learning, and more time. events.humanitix.com/unlocking-ti...

The calls to overhaul Victoria’s VCE assessment system are essential. Students are asking for understanding, not memorisation. It’s time to reimagine assessment - to value growth, creativity, and collaboration over high-stakes tests. www.woodleigh.vic.edu.au/news-editori...

‘How can everyone most powerfully pursue a purpose that transcends us all?’ Traditional organisational models come with limitations. Today, a new “Teal” paradigm is emerging, emphasising self-management, wholeness, and evolutionary purpose. www.strategy-business.com/article/0034...

“I knew I’d found the right recipe when a Year 12 said: ‘asking questions I am not sure of, without caring whether I look silly!’” – April Taylor 🌱 Creating classrooms that nurture curiosity, reflection & student agency transforms learning. Book release - www.routledge.com/Cultivating-...

We are thrilled to partner w Project Zero, the California Teacher Development Collaborative & our host Del Mar Union School District for our 2nd Annual Cultures of Thinking Summit. If you haven't already, add your name to our mailing list. Registration opens in the next few days. lnkd.in/giZAwMY5

“Characterized by self-management, wholeness, and a deeper sense of purpose, these organizations – which he describes as “Teal” – operate largely without organization charts, management hierarchies, quarterly goals or other traditional management strategies.” enliveningedge.org/features/wha...

“Victoria’s “outdated” 1980s-era approach to final high school exams should be replaced with a system that includes project-based tasks, with students leading the calls for change.” www.theage.com.au/national/vic...

“By 2050, every child would need a few years of schooling in the Three R’s. After that, teachers would expose students to activities that would challenge their thinking and guide them toward professions that excite them. I don’t think going to school for 10 or 15 years makes sense.” Howard Gardner

“Every time I teach , I feel joy. I feel satisfaction at seeing someone understand something that I care about. I’ve just been in awe of the teachers around me, like, how masterfully they take control of their classes and how they explain concepts. They’re just so skilled.”

“This absurd system we still subject our young people to. All the HSC is teaching is how to memorize information and then regurgitate it to answer exam questions.”

Bij #DeLezersMars #FreedomofSpeech

This is no longer just a matter of educational policy, but one of national survival… proposed dismantling the current “analogue structure” of university degrees, replacing it with faster learning pathways to address skill shortages.

“A large Brisbane school is crediting dramatic improvements in its year 12 students’ English marks to a customised AI chatbot that provides instant feedback on student essays…. A qualitative shift in student engagement and motivation resulting from the dramatic reduction in feedback delivery time.”

"This article highlights the importance of listening to children to fully understand their lived experience and the true essence of nature play... co-authoring articles with children fosters high levels of engagement and ownership." Via @aharper1.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...

TX is targeting educators—threatening jobs & certifications for posts made as private citizens. This violates their due process & 1st Amendment rights. Just after Constitution Day, we must remember: “Congress shall make no law…abridging freedom of speech.” Silencing teachers is silencing democracy.

Avoiding both AI hype and fear, MIT’s Justin Reich calls for school leaders to acknowledge uncertainty and prioritize thoughtful, small-scale experiments. #EdTech #SchoolLeaders

Good class openers introduce new concepts to students in ways that evoke wonder and extend engagement for the duration of the class period. Good closers provide students with opportunities to review and consolidate recently learned material. Here’s a mix of both! 🤩 #EduSky

“Social entrepreneurs are unreasonable not because they are crazy, but because they refuse to accept the world as it is. They insist on building the world as it should be.” www.amazon.com.au/dp/142210406...

One-on-one conversations between administrators and teachers can help create stronger, more supportive school communities! 🏫 Here’s how. #SchoolLeaders #Principals #EduSky

Not just for preschoolers! Middle and high schoolers also benefit from taking on jobs—and so will your entire class.👷 Bonus: Download this teacher's list of jobs and descriptions! #ClassroomManagement #EduSky

When a great ship is in harbor and moored, it is safe, there can be no doubt. But that is not what great ships are built for. www.awakin.org/v2/read/view...

"Home education and special assistance schools are the antithesis of standardisation, yet are the fastest growing sectors in education." blog.aare.edu.au/change-doesn...

"The wealthy “Western” countries that benefit from some of the highest standards of living in the world are now experiencing the greatest declines in subjective wellbeing." globalwellnessinstitute.org/global-welln...

“There are 3 stories of learning: the old, the current, and the new we want to tell.” Aussie schools need a shift from compliance to curiosity: valuing relationships, play, Indigenous knowledge, and diversity. Inquisitive minds thrive on risk, not the status quo. www.routledge.com/Cultivating-....

"We are witnessing the collapse of our dominant Knowledge System. Now, as AI outpaces us at the very game we were trained to play, a deeper question emerges: What exactly was the game?" ecologiesofwisdom.substack.com/p/death-of-a...

“So far, universities have no good answers to the existential questions posed by AI. What is needed from academic leaders is a full-throated explanation of what universities are, why they exist, and what it means to get a real education.”

“With a heavy emphasis on a highly top-down model of schooling with scripted direct instruction, the current Australian education model offers little flexibility.”

Teachers, how are you setting up your classroom this year? Share your desk layouts & seating chart strategies below ⬇️ For more on the science behind why intentional classroom seating design matters, read the full feature by senior editor @youkiterada.bsky.social 👇 6/6 #EduChat

"We need to be talking not about how AI is ruining education but about why our edu infrastructure is so brittle that a chatbot could exploit its weaknesses overnight. AI didn’t create the cracks in our education system. It’s just accelerating & illuminating them." insidestory.org.au/dont-blame-a...

Thought this myth had been overturned years ago! The s@@t sandwich! Research shows the 'compliment sandwich' is no longer effective

Greg challenged us to rethink schools: shifting from teacher to learner, empowering teachers as co-constructors of knowledge, embracing innovation, and seeing classrooms as performance spaces. He often reminded us that de-privatising teaching is the cornerstone of a sustainable learning culture.

Lots of work needs to be done in this space if we are not to end up in a dire situation in the next few years. In a lonely world, widespread AI chatbots and ‘companions’ pose unique psychological risks

Every day across Australia, teachers - most of whom are women - are in far more volatile situations than Bob was this week, handling challenging exchanges with professionalism, composure, and without resorting to threats of violence. My thoughts here: melanieralph.com/2025/08/30/i...