Educational Leadership

Digital transformation (Dx) is a cultural, workforce, and technological shift. It is being driven by technology trends and changes that include advances in analytics, artificial intelligence, the cloud, mobile, consumerization, social networks, and storage capacities. Those drivers are enabling a new approach to everything from digital architectures to how campus leaders interact with the IT organization, all with the expected outcomes of new business models, improved student outcomes, different teaching and learning methods, and new research capabilities.

In Germany, my daughter’s school offered circus lessons. Now I'll have to sell wrapping paper to keep the gym lights on.

We should keep in mind that education is valuable beyond graduate earning capacity, and that what a student learns during their education can have little to do with why they earn more.

Principal says girls had reported feeling self-conscious and inhibited by dresses and skirts while playing

Australian politicians are doubling down on a law that allows religious schools, which receive government funding, to discriminate against gay teachers and students.

Block subjects at university are receiving a lot of attention, but research says they may not be as effective for learning.

While global leaders have traditionally looked to Finland to improve their schools, an organisation from the Nordic country has been studying what is taking place in Victorian classrooms. This is what it discovered

This special funding deal will only further stimulate the private school sector and exacerbate segregation by socio-economic status across school sectors.

The Review to Achieve Education Excellence in Schools calls for a “sector-blind” approach to education reform, an approach that will “enable all students to achieve educational excellence”, regardless of their school sector. This latest announcement contradicts the prior policy papers from this government.

The public school sector caters for our society’s most disadvantaged. This is the school sector we should be actively celebrating and supporting through bold federal government initiatives.

Insight - Classrooms have changed radically in the past decade to become future focused. But John Gerritsen investigates if they are equipping children well or leaving them short on essential knowledge.

Heads of several prestigious schools apologise for signing a letter drafted by the church

In small-town Wisconsin, four schools cluster on one campus, fostering a culture of experimentation and self-directed learning for both students and teachers.

The top private tutors can command large fees for guiding students through their exams. But it takes a lot of hard work behind the scenes to break into the top ranks.

Assessing what works in the classroom using reason, not intuition, would help educators invest more wisely, argues John Hattie from the University of Melbourne.

Australia's eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant has called for cyber bullying to be addressed in the national school curriculum, after the agency's latest data revealed that one in five young people have been targeted online.

In a written speech to be delivered at the National Press Club in Canberra on Wednesday, Ms Grant said online safely had become "one of the primary parenting challenges of our time", with many parents at a loss over how to help their children navigate the fast-changing online environment.

Dr Noeline Wright has observed the development of one of New Zealand's most progressive high schools, Hobsonville Point Secondary School since the very beginning.