History Lesson: Local efforts at the core of union successes
8 November 2018
Section: News
Federation has long-standing staffing-related policies that seek to benefit students and teachers: a statewide staffing system built upon transfers, class sizes, permanency and the promotions system. But staffing improvements in these areas have only been achieved because of the contribution of teachers’ local activities.
Association Spotlight: Blayney
8 November 2018
Section: Member’s Voice
Blayney is a small country town in the central west of the state, situated between Bathurst and Orange, the two regional centres in the area.
NSW signs bilateral schools funding agreement
8 November 2018
Section: News
NSW has signed a bilateral agreement with the Federal Government that will deliver an additional $6.4 billion to public schools over the next ten years.
Join the night of a thousand dinners
8 November 2018
Section: News
Over the weekend of 17 November, The Pinnacle Foundation is asking people around Australia to host a dinner event and to invite their friends and family.
Phonics and the literacy journey, part 1: Start with quality, literary texts
7 November 2018
Section: News
The purpose of reading is to make meaning of text in the broadest sense, so that should be a priority from the moment a child is born, Professor Robyn Ewing told K-6 teachers at a Centre for Professional Learning literacy course recently.
Wear ‘Blue for Nauru’ on Tuesday 13 November
7 November 2018
Section: News
Federation is asking all members and school communities to help put pressure on the Morrison Government for all children to be removed from Nauru, by participating in the #BlueForNauru day on Tuesday, 13 November.
Transgender Day of Remembrance
7 November 2018
Section: News
Transgender Day of Remembrance is marked on 20 November each year to reflect on the challenges and cruelties faced by the transgender community.
The power to transform lives
5 November 2018
Section: News
Childhood trauma is an epidemic and the single biggest health crisis of our times, a Centre for Professional Learning (CPL) conference was told today, and that crisis was even worse for children with a disability.
Labor releases details of $14bn school-funding commitments
1 November 2018
Section: News
The Federal Labor Opposition has released the school-by-school details of its commitment to $14.1 billion of increased funding for public schools.
Change is coming from the classroom
31 October 2018
Section: News
Engagement between Australia’s Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people is shifting, says author and Indigenous literary advocate Dr Anita Heiss, and the classroom is taking the lead.
Record of NSW school life could be richer
30 October 2018
Section: News
The collection of photographs and documents detailing NSW public schools, students and teachers held by NSW State Archives would be larger had more material not been lost, thrown out, kept by schools or in private hands.
Campaign skills sharpened at National AEU New Educator Conference
30 October 2018
Section: News
Common challenges and aims fostered new connections and bonds at the AEU National New Educators Conference in Adelaide on 28-29 October.
Nine in ten public school teachers use own money for student supplies: survey
26 October 2018
Section: News
More than nine in ten public school teachers use their own money to purchase supplies for their school or students, according to the latest ‘State of our Schools’ online survey.
Help get the kids off Nauru
24 October 2018
Section: News
Federation members are encouraged to participate in community campaign activities in the next week to advance an end to the indefinite mandatory detention of asylum seekers (and in particular children).
Change the Rules — National day of action
19 October 2018
Section: News
Next week, on October 23, the ACTU will kick off a month of action for the Change the Rules campaign.
Max Taylor: Of coats and spies
17 October 2018
Section: News
Who would have imagined the role a humble jacket would play in Federation history? Speaking as part of the Unity! Strength! Justice! exhibition, former General Secretary and President Max Taylor spoke of the jacket’s vital role in the heady days of Federation militancy of the ’70s and ’80s.
Teachers Federation response to Labor promises on school funding
10 October 2018
Section: News
Labor’s pledge to substantially increase funding for public schools is a clear point of difference to the Coalition’s funding model which cuts billions of dollars from our schools, while making special deals with Catholic and Independent schools.
Program gives women a motivational push
9 October 2018
Section: News
Teacher Khrystyna Greenfield credits Federation’s Anna Stewart Program for giving her the final “motivational push” to lift her to the next level of advocacy and activism for the union.
New polling shows private school funding deal could sink Morrison government
5 October 2018
Section: News
More than seven in ten undecided voters in specific marginal electorates across Australia disapprove of the Morrison government’s $4.6 billion special funding deal for private schools, according to new polling.
Review into mobile devices in NSW schools
4 October 2018
Section: News
A government review into the risks and benefits associated with the use of mobile digital devices, primarily smartphones, in NSW schools has been launched by the NSW Minister for Education.
Forum hears of problems with gaol education privatisation
2 October 2018
Section: News
A public forum on prison education has examined the effects of privatisation on the provision of education in NSW gaols and to evaluate the quality of that education.