New research shows students recognise bullying to be intentional and emotionally harmful behaviour, and they want to help, but many don’t feel able to intervene. In this article we speak to Dr Aneeza Pervez about the implications of these research findings for schools, specifically when it comes to anti-bullying program design.

In today’s podcast, CEO of the Dyslexia-SPELD Foundation and Educational and Developmental Psychologist, Mandy Nayton, joins Teacher’s Dominique Beech to share frameworks to support all students to read successfully. We cover essential phonics knowledge, morphology, vocabulary and word study, and also discuss how to support older students’ literacy skills. 

Participating in professional learning can be energising and inspiring, but introducing what you’ve learned into your own practice – and sustaining it over the long term – can be hard. Taking small, simple steps on a regular basis was a key feature of what endured for teachers in a recent Australian research study of music-based approaches to nurture wellbeing.

Trauma enters classrooms through the invisible backpacks students carry each day. While educators cannot remove that weight, they can help make it more manageable. In today’s article Associate Professor Bryan Matera and Jenna Larsen from Winona State University, in the US, share 3 strategies teachers can use to support students.

For some students, the difference between walking through the school gate or staying home is as simple – and as heavy – as a clean uniform. Not-for-profit Orange Sky Australia is now partnering with schools to install free, on-campus washing machines and dryers, guided by a simple belief: access to laundry should never be a barrier to education.

In his new book, From Burnout to Breakthrough: The Leadership Reset, educational leader and author Brad Gaynor explores the growing pressures on school leaders and the toll these demands can take on wellbeing. In this extract for Teacher readers, Gaynor draws on his own lived experience of burnout to unpack the warning signs and share why naming it gave him the first foothold toward recovery.

Earlier this week, the world celebrated International Women’s Day – an important call to action for advancing gender equality. In this edition of 5 further readings, we share 5 resources on the topic of gender equity in education.

In School Improvement Episode 66, St Columba Anglican School Principal Allan Guihot and Director of Professional Learning Chris Delaney join Jo Earp to talk about the award-winning Teaching School Hubs program, including how the model works in the day-to-day, and benefits for both the trainees preparing to enter the profession and mentor teachers at the host school.

Latest data show teachers in Australia use artificial intelligence more than their international counterparts, but they have concerns about their own skills and how best to support students to use the tech effectively. Professor Ken Purnell says the key to unlocking AI’s full potential is a skill known as ‘master prompting’.

At Al-Taqwa College, a school of more than 2,700 students from prep to year 12, managing data and assessment is a significant undertaking. In today’s article, Assistant Head of Curriculum, Noorun Nisa Abdul Wahid shares how staff collect data, what they do to make sense of it, and how it informs curriculum design, assessment and teaching across the whole school.