The year’s first edition of Education Quarterly is live online and headed to your mailbox — and it’s full of new features and content!
This latest edition covers our new campaign for additional classroom preparation time, celebrates some stunning victories won by our Griffith members and highlights Federation’s proud history of fighting for LGBTIQA+ justice. We’ve also unveiled a new Q&A format, letting our team of industrial and policy experts answer your burning questions on workplace and equity issues.
Here’s a deeper dive into what’s inside
Our cover features a stunning photo from our Mardi Gras float — read more about the parade on pages 26-27.
On Page 5, President Henry Rajendra writes about the powerful force that teachers working with parents can be in our campaign for two additional hours of preparation time each week.
Keep up with the latest union news on pages 6-7, including our work to address the growing presence of AI in classrooms, the Australian Education Union’s campaign for recurrent capital works funding, and Federation joining the Hidden Disabilities Sunflower network, which seeks to empower people with hidden disabilities.
Pages 8-9 are dedicated to our Griffith members, who have won additional hiring incentives and fought off a forced school amalgamation.
Learn about the new More Than Thanks — It’s Time campaign in our special four-page feature from page 10.
Pages 14-15 feature our new regular segment for early career and experienced teachers. This spread contains hot tips, resources and material catered especially for our early career teachers and the teachers who mentor them.
Check out our expanded Know Your Rights section on pages 16-17, where in this edition we answer questions on class sizes, face-to-face teaching hours and Health and Safety Representatives (HSRs). You can also access the answers and resources here.
Pages 18-19 are our regular pullout poster; this edition’s poster is dedicated to Federation’s Special Interest Groups (SIGs). Which group would you like to join? More on SIGs here.
Pages 20-21 feature a new regular spread, Equity Matters Q&A. Learn about how to talk about disability, lactation breaks, Sorry Business, the history of the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination and more. You can also access the answers and resources here.
We have expanded our TAFE coverage. See pages 22-23 to read about TAFE program diaries and approved programs, plus TAFE TA seeking commitment from TAFE NSW to fully resource face-to-face education in High School Equivalent programs.
Pages 24-25 celebrate members’ collective advocacy that has advanced LGBTIQA+ rights, while pages 26-27 capture the glitz and pride of our Mardi Gras float. Check out the bonus Mardi Gras content here.
Our Centre for Professional Learning (CPL) segment on pages 28-29 by Dr Kathy Rushton, honorary lecturer at the University of Sydney, explores the importance of play-based learning.
Pages 30-31 introduce our new Online Book Club and lay out the hottest new books in Federation’s library.
See photos of our members and Officers out and about in our Say Cheese! section on pages 32-33, including our new History corner. Do you have material to send in? Email us.
Lastly, learn about our CPL and Trade Union Training (TUT) courses and conferences on page 34, as well as details about the Sam Lewis Peace Prize competition on page 35.
Edition 17, also contains some friendly characters hidden throughout the magazine. These characters will appear in each edditon this year. EQ17 has two bees, one lady bug, a koala, and penguin, to be found. So for any parents or careers out there, when you are finished reading your copy, you can test your children’s finding skills each edition as they try to find them all (they’ll get increasingly tricky to find and numbers will vary).