School Success Model replaces Local Schools, Local Decisions in name only
Today’s announcement on the replacement of ‘Local Schools Local Decisions’ with ‘The School Success Model’ continues the recent history of the abandonment of support for schools and the shifting of responsibility and blame away from the government and the Department onto the local public school.
Picture book wins coveted national award
5 December 2020
Section: News
Federation member Jasmine Seymour can now add award-winning illustrator to her list of achievements, after being crowned Best New Illustrator by the Children’s Book Council of Australia.
Safety and wellbeing concerns before IRC
3 December 2020
Section: News
The Department has failed to adequately address Federation’s concerns regarding the safety and wellbeing of vulnerable teachers during the COVID-19 pandemic and Federation recently escalated the matter to the Industrial Relations Commission (IRC).
Disability: secret report exposes new wave
3 December 2020
Section: News
A confidential NSW government report has shed light on a critical and burgeoning challenge for public education as the number of students with disabilities is predicted to grow by 50 per cent in the decade to 2027.
Teachers add value as agents of social inclusion and cohesion
Every day, schools, principals and teachers play a critical and invaluable role in their communities by contributing to society’s social-inclusion outcomes.
TAFE Monday Minute
30 November 2020
Section: News
On Friday, at the 11th hearing of our Enterprise Agreement Bargaining Dispute in Fair Work, TAFE NSW and the NSW Teachers Federation came to an agreement which would enable the TAFE Teachers and Related Employees Enterprise Agreement 2020 to be finalised.
From crisis comes innovation to change nature of environmental education
29 November 2020
Section: News
One area of the NSW public school system particularly affected by COVID- 19 restrictions was the state’s 25 environmental and zoo education centres.
UK: COVID runs riot
28 November 2020
Section: News
With the COVID-19 crisis still raging, teacher unionists in the UK have deplored the falling school attendance rates and presented a plan to secure safe schools and ensure quality education during the pandemic.
ARIA award rocks Wilcannia
27 November 2020
Section: News
With Sarah Donnelley being voted the Telstra ARIA music teacher of the year came deserved recognition but not, she says, for herself. She claims those winning votes are for the children of the remote western NSW town of Wilcannia on the banks of the Darling.
Solar Our Schools
26 November 2020
Section: News
Stately Kirribilli House gained a pink, solar-powered cubby house delivered by a convoy of parents and children on 30 September, carrying an urgent message: Solar Our Schools.
EAL/D support is falling short
25 November 2020
Section: News
English Language Provision is an important component of school planning and the allocation of specialist EAL/D teachers should be a priority if schools are to support the educational needs of their EAL/D students.
Spectacle of public education talent
24 November 2020
Section: News
“The diversity of our students is one of our many strengths and our Public Schools Arts Festival showcases this wonderful diversity and creativity,” Inner City Teachers Association Secretary John Gauci said.
The Philippines: Unionism Is not Terrorism
24 November 2020
Section: News
Trade union and other leaders and activists from the Philippines recounted stories of repression in the Philippines in a Council of Global Unions webinar held on 23 November.
Joint action brings a change in behaviour
22 November 2020
Section: News
Federation, with the support of the principals and parents and citizens organisations, have worked together to shift the Department of Education’s intention to make unilateral changes to the suspension and expulsion policy from day 1, term 1, 2021.
Joint action brings a change in behaviour
22 November 2020
Section: News
Federation, with the support of the principals and parents and citizens organisations, have worked together to shift the Department of Education’s intention to make unilateral changes to the suspension and expulsion policy from day 1, term 1, 2021.
New alliance aims to end energy policy impasse
20 November 2020
Section: News
A new alliance of union and environment groups in the Hunter was officially formed in November.
Private schools continue to benefit from special deal
19 November 2020
Section: News
New details have emerged confirming the NSW Government has been spending hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars helping private schools pay off loans as part of a subsidy scheme that was supposed to have been shut down more than a decade ago.
Petition supports the role of teacher-librarians
18 November 2020
Section: News
Federation’s call for all NSW public school students to have access to qualified teacher-librarians and well-resourced school libraries has been reinforced by a new online petition to Members of Parliament in the NSW Legislative Assembly.
Town’s teachers unite to shift fixed mindset on school closures
15 November 2020
Section: News
The NSW Government’s merger plan for schools in Murwillumbah is facing strong opposition from members in the four affected schools.
Pair top class in school of hard knocks
13 November 2020
Section: News
Yasmin Meakes and Mel Howard will be out to teach a bunch of unruly northerners a lesson or two when they take the field with the NSW Women against the Queensland Maroons in Friday’s State of Origin match.
Working above and beyond a flawed system
13 November 2020
Section: News
Complexity of student needs, staffing shortages and disadvantage are issues that are magnified in remote and regional settings, where government services, employment and distance all play a counter-productive role in the delivery of education.