Rebecca Vukovic

It’s National Science Week – a time to celebrate curiosity, inquiry and shared learning. In today’s article, we learn more about the Victorian Space Science Education Centre and how its immersive STEM experiences contribute to knowledge acquisition, but also to the development of teamwork, communication, resilience, and connection.

Ahead of the National Education Summit in Melbourne this September, we sat down with Andrew Fuller – clinical psychologist, author and family therapist – to discuss his work on converting neurodiversity into neuro-advantage. In this episode, we explore transitions and regulation, school belonging and finding your people, and how educators can help turn neurodivergence into a genuine advantage for young people.

This week we're celebrating Australian Primary Principals Day. To mark the occasion, we sat down with Anthony Boys, Principal of Marist Catholic College, North Shore in Sydney to discuss his approach to instructional leadership and hear how distributed leadership works in practice at his school.

NAIDOC Week is an annual celebration that honours the cultures, histories and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. In today’s article, we explore the 2026 theme 50 Years of Deadly, share links to the free resources that have been developed for teachers, and highlight 3 schools around the country who are celebrating NAIDOC Week in their own unique way. 

AI tools are becoming more embedded in students’ lives. At Teacher, we know this is an area where educators are seeking practical support and so this month, we’ve published a range of articles to help. In today’s Teacher Staffroom episode, I’ll take you through the key highlights, along with a few extra pieces you won’t want to miss.

At EDUtech 2026, the Teacher team caught the Australian STEM Video Game Challenge presentation hosted by Lisa van Beeck, ACER Research Fellow and Project Director for the challenge. In this exclusive video for Teacher readers, we recorded the presentation in full. You’ll hear van Beeck walk delegates through the challenge itself and highlight the suite of teacher resources designed to support it.

A collaborative study involving Aboriginal Elders, families, educators and children across 3 urban schools in Perth, Western Australia, is working to deepen Aboriginal children’s understanding of, and pride in, who they are by strengthening their connections to culture, Country and kin. Professor Cheryl Kickett-Tucker from Curtin University tells us all about the Moombaki Cultural Learnings Project and the impact it is having on Aboriginal students.

EDUtech is one of the largest and most prominent education and technology events on our calendar for 2026. Over 2 days last week, Teacher magazine’s Rebecca Vukovic and Dominique Beech were there in Sydney for the event, and in today’s podcast special they share their reflections on the sessions they attended, as well as other conference highlights. 

EDUtech has just wrapped up for 2026, and the Teacher team were in Sydney for the 2-day conference to have conversations with the education community and hear from both local and international speakers. Read our insights here.

Last month, the OECD released findings from the 2025 International Early Learning and Child Well-being Study (IELS). In today's episode, Dr Dan Cloney, Senior Research Fellow at ACER and Lead Researcher for IELS, unpacks some of the key findings from the study, explores what made the assessment design unique, and discusses why it's so important to ensure every child arrives at school with the strongest possible foundations.