Dominique Russell

In our last episode of Teacher Staffroom for 2024, we recap some of our leadership, research news and inclusive education stories that might be useful for you as you begin to look towards the new school year. 

For the past 8 weeks, we’ve been sharing the stories of our Teacher Awards 2024 winners. In our final profile on this year’s winners, we speak with Alison Morley from St Canice’s Primary School. She’s been recognised as winner of our Special Contribution Award for her commitment to the teaching profession, the Arts and the wider school community. 

We know, from a decade of Teacher reader survey feedback, how important the topic of wellbeing in schools is to educators. In this article, we find out how the winners of the Teacher Awards 2024 Improving Health and Wellbeing Award are improving student wellbeing in their context.

This year, when we asked you what topics you’d like to see us cover in the future, many of you said curriculum implementation. This is something we’ve been focusing on this month, so in this episode of Teacher Staffroom we catch you up on the latest.

The 2024 Teacher Awards winners have been announced. In today’s article, we speak with Cathy Cook from Marryatville Primary School in South Australia – winner of the Cultivating an Inclusive and Positive Culture Award – about her comprehensive approach to inclusion.

Today is World Teachers' Day in Australia. The annual day is celebrated throughout October across the globe. In our latest annual reader survey, we asked you to tell us what you love about your role, and in this infographic, we share some responses from our readers around the world.

When you’re planning a unit of work for your students, there may be opportunities to include a local trip to support the learning outcomes. Recent research from ACER shows the most popular local learning destinations in Australia and New Zealand for some schools participating in Children’s University, a program designed to engage students aged 5-18 in out-of-school learning enrichment activities.

The 2024 winners of the Prime Minister’s Prizes for Excellence in Science Teaching have just been announced. Daniel Edwards from Montello Primary School in Tasmania and Alice Leung from Concord High School in New South Wales have been recognised for their outstanding contribution to the profession

In today’s article, we speak with the winners of the Excellence in Staff Collaboration Award category for the Teacher Awards 2024. The team from Balmoral State High School were recognised for their systematic, sustainable, whole-school approach to collaboration to improve student outcomes.

Australia's latest Closing the Gap Report communicates progress towards government targets to achieve equality for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in areas like education, health and employment. In today’s infographic, we share some of the education results and how they compare to the baseline year data.