Blogs

Report Writing Season

Teaching is the best job in the world, but it is also the hardest. It is a demanding profession at the best of times, and in the middle...

Finish Strong

It takes a long time to build a school up to excellence. This is a story of pride and surprise. In 2010, as part of a regional...

Victorian Education Excellence Awards

In 2016, I had been the principal at Woori Yallock PS for 6 years. I had just been nominated for Principal Of The Year, and as a school...

Learning Can Be Life Changing

Everyone who has thought deeply enough about education realises that it is broken in its current state. The notion of having one teacher...

Hate Mail

Hate mail arrived in my letterbox at home 5 days before I was officially to start as principal of a nearby school. It was just that...

Remembering Richard Elmore

How many people as part of their life’s work, commit everything to a cause, know the odds are too great, yet they do it anyway? There is...

Depth Over Breadth

One of the biggest challenges in education is that a crowded curriculum leads many teachers to choose content over pedagogy.

Can an entire education system become coherent?

I’m very fortunate in my role to work with some amazing educators and schools. Through the courses that I run, or when starting out with...