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The impact of reading difficulties on children’s wellbeing
The impact of reading difficulties on children’s wellbeing

Earlier this year, our podcast with Mandy Nayton – Educational and Developmental Psychologist and CEO of the Dyslexia-SPELD Foundation – explored ways to support students of all ages read successfully. In the first of 3 follow-up articles, ACU Professor Genevieve McArthur – Director of Research Translation at the Dyslexia-SPELD Foundation – shares how reading difficulties can impact student wellbeing.

Unit planning – differentiating mathematics for gifted students
Unit planning – differentiating mathematics for gifted students

‘The practical challenge of designing units that genuinely extend gifted learners within a mixed-ability classroom, without simply adding more of the same work, remains one of the more complex tasks in primary teaching’. Wesley College’s Lanella Sweet shares a tiered unit of work built around real-world measurement tasks.

Real-world maths – A mathematical challenge to protect wildlife at scale
Real-world maths – A mathematical challenge to protect wildlife at scale

The International Mathematical Modeling Challenge (IM2C) invites students around the globe to gather in teams across a 5-day period to solve a real-world problem using mathematical modelling. This year students were asked to inform protection planning for Etosha National Park. In this article, we speak to some Australian schools who participated. 

Teaching methods: Teaching at an online school
Teaching methods: Teaching at an online school

In this podcast, Dominique Beech hears from Joanna Baker, Head of Campus at Haileybury Pangea – the fully online campus of Haileybury, and independent co-educational school. The online campus serves approximately 180 students from a range of backgrounds across Australia and in this episode we hear all about what it’s like to teach students in a virtual classroom setting.

Research news: TIMSS 2023 insights – curriculum alignment
Research news: TIMSS 2023 insights – curriculum alignment

A new insights report on the latest assessment cycle of the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) investigates how much curriculum content is actually covered in classrooms, and whether differences are linked to student achievement.

More than a home – one teacher’s journey into foster care
More than a home – one teacher’s journey into foster care

For many people, foster care is something they see from a distance. They may think about doing it one day, but assume they are too busy, not qualified, or not in the right stage of life. For one Melbourne teacher, those doubts were familiar too. Yet 5 years later, foster care has become one of the most meaningful parts of her life.

Inaugural Global Schools Prize winner announced
Inaugural Global Schools Prize winner announced

The winner of the inaugural Global Schools Prize – an international US $500,000 prize presented to a school to scale their impact – has been announced as The Alsama Project from Lebanon. Find out more about the winner, and an Australian school that also made it all the way to the top 50, in today’s article.

Teacher professional learning – real-world lessons on financial literacy
Teacher professional learning – real-world lessons on financial literacy

Buy-now pay-later services, pocket money apps, online scams, gambling advertising and cryptocurrency are part of some students’ everyday lives. In today’s article, 2 mathematics teachers from Marryatville High School in South Australia share how they’ve applied some of their learning from a professional development partnership into their financial literacy electives for year 9 and 10. 

IELS 2025: Thriving at 5 – early childhood learning and development
IELS 2025: Thriving at 5 – early childhood learning and development

The results from the second cycle of the OECD’s Early Learning and Child Well-being Study (IELS 2025) have just been released. Here we share more about the focus and innovative assessment design of IELS, and an overview of the findings on how children are faring at the very start of their learning journeys.

Planning for learning in mathematics – a collaborative intentional effort
Planning for learning in mathematics – a collaborative intentional effort

In our latest reader submission, Dr Aylie Davidson, Lecturer in Mathematics Education at Deakin University, explains that planning for learning necessitates intellectual and collaborative effort, and outlines what an effective planning meeting for maths looks like in practice.