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              <title><![CDATA[International TALIS insights – relationship-building skills and strategies]]></title>
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              <pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 07:30:00 +1100</pubDate>
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                                            <description><![CDATA[‘Supporting relationship skills often requires empathy, active listening and sustained dialogue.’ OECD Director of Education and Skills Andreas Schleicher shares international insights from TALIS 2024 on how teachers respond when students disengage or struggle with relationship skills.]]></description>
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              <title><![CDATA[The great equaliser – why access to laundry should never be a barrier to education]]></title>
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              <pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 07:00:00 +1100</pubDate>
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                                            <description><![CDATA[For some students, the difference between walking through the school gate or staying home is as simple – and as heavy – as a clean uniform. Not-for-profit Orange Sky Australia is now partnering with schools to install free, on-campus washing machines and dryers, guided by a simple belief: access to laundry should never be a barrier to education.]]></description>
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              <title><![CDATA[Researching education: 5 further readings on gender equity]]></title>
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              <pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 07:30:00 +1100</pubDate>
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                                            <description><![CDATA[Earlier this week, the world celebrated International Women’s Day – an important call to action for advancing gender equality. In this edition of 5 further readings, we share 5 resources on the topic of gender equity in education.]]></description>
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              <title><![CDATA[School Improvement Episode 66: Preparing trainees for the classroom – the Teaching School Hubs program]]></title>
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              <pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 07:30:00 +1100</pubDate>
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                                            <description><![CDATA[In School Improvement Episode 66, St Columba Anglican School Principal Allan Guihot and Director of Professional Learning Chris Delaney join Jo Earp to talk about the award-winning Teaching School Hubs program, including how the model works in the day-to-day, and benefits for both the trainees preparing to enter the profession and mentor teachers at the host school.]]></description>
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              <title><![CDATA[Expert Q&A: Mathematics professional development support for teachers]]></title>
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              <pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 07:30:00 +1100</pubDate>
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                                            <description><![CDATA[Recent data show that improving students’ critical thinking and problem‑solving skills is the most desired professional learning topic for both year 4 and year 8 teachers in Australia. In today’s expert Q&A we speak to Renee Ladner, Education Consultant at the Mathematical Association of Victoria about the PD needs of maths teachers.]]></description>
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              <title><![CDATA[Infographic: What do you love about teaching?]]></title>
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              <pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 07:30:00 +1100</pubDate>
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                                            <description><![CDATA[What do you love about being a teacher? Our annual reader survey includes an invitation for you to share what you love about your role in education. In this infographic, we share some of the latest responses received from classroom teachers.]]></description>
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              <title><![CDATA[The Great Southern Reef – knowledge-rich curriculum design]]></title>
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              <pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2026 07:30:00 +1100</pubDate>
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                                            <description><![CDATA[St Theresa’s Primary School Albion in Melbourne’s west is strengthening science learning through a knowledge-rich curriculum focused on Australia’s Great Southern Reef. In today’s article Literacy Leader Jackie O'Connor-Croydon shares more about the P-6 program that integrates field experiences, expert-led learning and sequenced content, to deepen students’ scientific understanding. ]]></description>
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              <title><![CDATA[AI in the classroom – ‘master prompting’ as a crucial skill]]></title>
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                                            <description><![CDATA[Latest data show teachers in Australia use artificial intelligence more than their international counterparts, but they have concerns about their own skills and how best to support students to use the tech effectively. Professor Ken Purnell says the key to unlocking AI’s full potential is a skill known as ‘master prompting’.]]></description>
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              <pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2026 07:30:00 +1100</pubDate>
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                                            <description><![CDATA[At Al-Taqwa College, a school of more than 2,700 students from prep to year 12, managing data and assessment is a significant undertaking. In today’s article, Assistant Head of Curriculum, Noorun Nisa Abdul Wahid shares how staff collect data, what they do to make sense of it, and how it informs curriculum design, assessment and teaching across the whole school.]]></description>
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              <title><![CDATA[Teacher Staffroom Episode 73: A strong start to a new school year]]></title>
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              <pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 08:00:00 +1100</pubDate>
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                                            <description><![CDATA[We’re well and truly into the new school year here in Australia. In today’s Teacher Staffroom podcast, we run you through the highlights from this month, including our round-up of some key events happening throughout the school year to help you with lesson planning, and an article that shares 4 design principles to help turn classrooms into spaces that support and celebrate student learning.]]></description>
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              <pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 07:30:00 +1100</pubDate>
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                                            <description><![CDATA[In early childhood settings, educators often navigate a familiar tension: how to honour children’s play as the foundation of learning while ensuring curriculum expectations are met? In today’s article, early childhood educators Helen Bartlett and Lauren Bastion explain how they built a curriculum-tracking platform that analyses children’s learning stories and generates visual curriculum insights.]]></description>
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                                            <description><![CDATA[To support the development of middle leaders, and to recognise the importance of their role in schools, AITSL has developed middle leadership standards. In this Q&A, AITSL CEO Tim Bullard explains why the standards were developed and how they can be used.]]></description>
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                                            <description><![CDATA[Each year Mission Australia’s Youth Survey asks teenagers about their views and experiences – providing a snapshot of the challenges they face and hopes for the future. For the first time, respondents included younger students (14-year-olds) and new questions on their feelings about school. This infographic shares some of the findings.]]></description>
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                                            <description><![CDATA[The 2026 recipient of the Global Teacher Prize has been announced – Rouble Nagi from India took out the top prize. One Australian teacher was a top 10 finalist this year – Colleen O’Rourke from the Hills Cristian Community School in Adelaide, South Australia. Teacher caught up with her shortly after she was named a finalist to find out about the work she’s been recognised for. ]]></description>
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                                            <description><![CDATA[In today’s Leadership Q&A, River Nile School Principal Charles Hertzog shares what makes his school community unique, how the context shapes his leadership priorities, and how he brings teachers, wellbeing staff, and external agencies into a shared vision.]]></description>
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                                            <description><![CDATA[In his new Teacher column, Professor Martin Westwell – Chief Executive of the South Australian Department for Education – shares findings from a major systematic review of persistence and academic resilience across K-12 education. He highlights how persistence and resilience are not fixed personality traits but rather a part of the learning process, shaped by task design, classroom conditions, and how teachers respond when students struggle.]]></description>
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                                            <description><![CDATA[What do ‘friend’, ‘cost’ and ‘privacy’ have in common? They’re all past winners of Oxford’s Australian Children’s Word of the Year. Now we can add ‘vitamin’ to the list, with the latest research highlighting an increase in students writing about self-care. Find out what else made the shortlist, and about some of the changes in the rankings of the 100 highest-frequency words, in today’s article.]]></description>
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                                            <description><![CDATA[In today’s episode Dominique Russell speaks with the 2 recipients of the 2025 Prime Minister’s Prizes for Excellence in Science Teaching – Paula Taylor from the ACT and Matt Dodds from NSW. They share the lesson activities that are a hit in their science classrooms, the teachers that had an impact on them, and how they’re sharing their knowledge with other educators. ]]></description>
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                                            <description><![CDATA[Recent research from Edith Cowan University highlights a lack of disability representation in children’s picture books. In today’s article, lead researcher Associate Professor Helen Adam discusses the study findings, and practical advice for K-12 teachers when it comes to selecting books for a school or classroom library.]]></description>
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