Posts by Education Australia
Australian Indigenous Education Foundation: The growing demand for Indigenous boarding education
Across Australia, more Indigenous families are seeking access to high-quality secondary education. Families, especially those from remote regions, are looking for schools that offer both opportunity and an environment where their daughters and sons can thrive while maintaining strong connections to family, culture and community. For schools, this presents both an opportunity and a responsibility.…
Read MoreBeyond Blue: More confident, less prepared: What the latest mental health in education survey tells us
Across Australia, schools are grappling with rising student mental health needs, while young people navigate a world of constant global crises and distressing events. Together, these experiences are shaping students’ wellbeing, and in turn, expanding the role educators play in recognising and responding to mental health needs in their classrooms. This makes it more important…
Read MoreQueensland Child Protection Week: Protecting children starts with education: 40 years of Child Protection Week
Protecting children is everybody’s business. It’s a phrase we hear so often today that it’s easy to forget how recently it became part of the national conversation. Forty years ago, it wasn’t discussed in homes or classrooms, and it certainly wasn’t reported in the media. Today, the idea that child protection is a shared responsibility…
Read MoreChildren and Young People with Disability Australia: Belonging is the foundation of inclusion
Freya listens carefully as her teacher tells the class to get into groups of three for a counting activity. Nobody approaches Freya and the teacher asks the classroom assistant to sit with and read her the instructions to accommodate her visual impairment. Freya spends more time with adults at school and doesn’t feel like part…
Read MoreInternational Coalition of Girl’s School: Belonging: What the research is telling us
Education has never been short of things to improve. Raise literacy. Lift numeracy. Improve attendance. Strengthen wellbeing. Embed AI. Build resilience. Develop critical thinking. Prepare students for jobs that do not yet exist. Against this backdrop, belonging can seem almost unremarkable. Everyone agrees it matters. Few would argue that students should feel disconnected, excluded or…
Read MorePrimary English Teaching Association Australia: Supporting EAL/D learners: A whole-school approach
For many Australian schools, supporting EAL/D (English as an Additional Language or Dialect) learners is part of everyday teaching across every classroom and learning area. Recent research from the Australian Education Research Organisation (AERO)1 reinforces an important understanding: Developing the English language proficiency needed to participate equitably in curriculum learning requires explicit teaching and ongoing…
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