Today’s kids can’t wait any longer for schools funding cuts to be restored
6 May 2019
Section: News
“Every year in a child’s education counts — you can’t say we can wait another three years to do something for these kids; you can’t say that,” federal Labor’s shadow education minister Tanya Plibersek said in an address to Federation’s May Council meeting.
Casual Vacancy for City Organiser 2019-2021
4 May 2019
Section: Administration
Casual Vacancy for City Organiser 2019-2021
Unions rally on May Day ahead of Sunday’s Family Fun Day
1 May 2019
Section: News
To chants of “union, power”, more than 20,000 union members gathered at Sydney’s Belmore Park, near Central station, to march to Hyde Park marking May Day for International Workers Day.
Leading improvement of literacy K-6
26 April 2019
Section: News
Highly accomplished teachers will be coached on how to help colleagues get the most out of the NSW English K-6 Syllabus at an upcoming Centre for Professional Learning course.
School leaders up-skill on approaches to improving student outcomes at CPL course
23 April 2019
Section: News
Experienced and accomplished teachers who participated in the Centre for Professional Learning’s Leading the Lifting of Achievement in Years 7-12 course, left armed with new strategies to support their colleagues to improve practice and subsequently student learning outcomes.
Suggestions for dealing with school predicaments covered in CPL course
19 April 2019
Section: News
Members looking for ideas to deal with the challenges they may face as executives in schools were presented with a range of options at a recent Centre for Professional Learning course.
An understanding public commits to schools funding campaign activities
18 April 2019
Section: News
People from the far north coast of NSW have indicated they are ready to fight for what is right and just — true needs-based funding for every student in every public school.
Help grow union’s membership
17 April 2019
Section: News
As part of the continuing implementation of the Annual Conference Decision 2004, Recruitment and Activism and the Future of the…
New CPL course offers clarity on student assessment
17 April 2019
Section: News
In response to members seeking guidance on ongoing assessment processes that inform the learning cycle and support student learning, the Centre for Professional Learning last week offered a new course — Assessment K-6: Making Use of Meaningful Data.
Data spin and education cross-pollinisation
16 April 2019
Section: News
The need for teachers’ unions and the education research community to cross-pollinate is essential in an increasingly data-dense world if the best interests of public education are to be served, a summit held at Federation headquarters was told.
Book Reviews
15 April 2019
Section: Member’s Voice
Ruby in the Ruins, Peter in Peril, The Fear and the Freedom, George
Association LGBTIQ contact
15 April 2019
Section: Administration
Every year Associations elect members into a range of positions to ensure the smooth running of the local Association, and to share information on specific matters in which the Federation is involved.
First CPL courses accredited at Highly Accomplished start
15 April 2019
Section: News
Federation’s Centre for Professional Learning has held its first courses accredited at Highly Accomplished for school leaders and aspiring school leaders.
Change the rules, change the nation
14 April 2019
Section: News
A strong showing is needed at May Day Change the Rules rallies to indicate to politicians that inequity will be an important issue for voters at the federal election.
Student suspension and expulsion procedures need improvement
13 April 2019
Section: News
The Department is conducting a review of the suspension and expulsion procedures and the discipline policy but at this stage there are no terms of reference.
School partners with community on park project
12 April 2019
Section: News
Members of the Gumbaynggirr community gathered to open the new park in Bellwood Aboriginal Reserve and remember the life of Caleb Jarrett, whose name the park now bears.
Worry knots untangled for new primary teachers at CPL conference
12 April 2019
Section: News
The particular needs and concerns of new primary teachers were addressed at a Centre for Professional Learning Conference on 1 April.
A simple moral choice: some children or all children?
11 April 2019
Section: Columns
As a nation, we can decide to give our teachers in public schools the resources they need for the task at hand or we continue to advantage those private schools that are over-funded.
Counsellors hit the pay wall
11 April 2019
Section: Member’s Voice
I have worked as a District School Counsellor and District Guidance Officer for the Department over the past 28 years, in a number of regions in NSW.
Theatre Review
10 April 2019
Section: Member’s Voice
Theatre is so diverse, as demonstrated by the shows I have seen recently: a musical Spamalot, a satire How to Rule The World and Every Brilliant Thing, which is difficult to describe.
Women in Education
10 April 2019
Section: News
Workplace and Association role crucial for representation