Summit Blog

Written by Matthew Magain, Sketch Group. During a 45-minute “sketching boot camp” at a school in Adelaide earlier this year, a few teachers in the class wrote on their feedback form: “I’d love to see more about how I can apply this in the classroom.” Fair. Visual thinking is exciting

Written by Andrew Murray, Lumina Consulting. This Thursday I’ll be speaking at the National Education Summit in Melbourne, and one question has been following me as I prepare: When did exhaustion become evidence that we care? I ask that as someone who has spent more than thirty years in education,

Written by Gloria Wong, Sketch Group. What happens when a school’s values exist on paper but struggle to live in the hallways, classrooms, and daily conversations? For Specialised Assistance School for Youth (‘SASY’) — a school in South Australia dedicated to supporting students who have disengaged from mainstream education —

Written by James Podsiadly, AFL Max. James’s session at this year’s Summit puts words to something they see every single day at AFL Max: movement isn’t a break from learning. It’s how learning happens. Traditionally, classrooms have been built around the idea that stillness equals focus. Sit up straight, hands

Written by Meg MacKenzie, Language Disorder Australia. Ask a class to share something that happened on the weekend and you will hear students deciding what their listener needs to know, which details matter, how one event led to another and why the experience was important to them. One student may

Written by Melissa Lozanovski, Founding Director, Bien Collective There are moments in our lives that stay with us long after the details have faded. Moments that quietly shape who we become and influence the decisions we make years later. For me, one of those moments was losing my principal. At

Written by Rebecca Vukovic, Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER). Young people are navigating a financial landscape that looks very different to the one their teachers grew up in. Buy-now pay-later services, pocket money apps, online scams, gambling advertising and cryptocurrency are part of some students’ everyday lives. In response,

Written by Classroom Companion. Across Australian classrooms, educators are being asked to respond to increasingly complex student needs while doing the job they entered the profession to do: teach. A student refuses to begin their work. Another leaves the classroom. A seemingly minor interaction escalates unexpectedly. A student who rarely

Written by Jo Earp, Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER). When done well, providing feedback is one of the most powerful strategies teachers can use to support student learning. As artificial intelligence tools and technologies evolve rapidly, schools and education systems are grappling with the challenges and opportunities they present.

Written by Pebbles Randhawa, Campion Education. Discover Campion CuratED, a suite of best-in-class digital education products, developed and curated by Campion’s Innovation & Growth team to support teachers and students throughout the teaching and learning journey. Purpose-built for education and aligned to the Australian curriculum, CuratED products are exclusive to

Written by Alicia Coheri, Amba Press. I met Kelly Oldfield a few years ago at the National Education Summit here in Melbourne. She was on the floor talking with educators about behaviour support, the way she does, with that mix of warmth and straight talking honesty that makes people stop

Written by Alexandra Ryan, The World’s Greatest Shave. One of the things I love most about the World’s Greatest Shave is that students are at the heart of it. Across hundreds of schools around Australia, I’ve watched students take an idea and make it their own. They recruit their friends.

Written by Michelle Ware, Quality Teaching Academy, University of Newcastle. Teacher agency in learning design is becoming a hot topic in an age where AI-generated resources and centrally designed lessons, assessments and units of work are the rule rather than the exception. An over-reliance on “ready-made” resources risks a dependence

Written by Growth Coaching International. Here’s a question worth sitting with for a moment: how would you know if you needed a coach? Not in the abstract, “everyone is talking about coaching, maybe I should try that,” or “coaching is a good thing, generally.” I mean right now, this term,

Written by You Can Do It! Education Australia. Ask any teacher what they need most right now, and wellbeing will be near the top of the list. Not as a nice-to-have, and not as a poster on the staffroom wall — but as something they are genuinely running low on.

Written by Meg MacKenzie, Language Disorder Australia. Every day, we use supports without giving them much thought. We write lists, turn on captions, adjust the brightness of a screen, use predictive text when texting, turn off the music in the car before turning right at an intersection, move to a

Written by Greg Brown, Strategenics. AI is everywhere in education conversations — but far less visible in day-to-day classroom impact. The gap between hype and execution is where most schools struggle. The Problem Too many initiatives start with tools, vendors, and features — instead of outcomes, problems, and value. This

Written by Andrew Murray, Lumina Consulting. Nearly 2.2 million Australians aged 15 and over are now living below what has been described as the “wellbeing poverty line”. It is a confronting figure. According to an analysis of the Australian Bureau of Statistics 2025 General Social Survey, 9.7 per cent of

Written by Dominic Pye, Beyond Horizon VR. The promise of Virtual Reality (VR) in education has long been touted as a revolutionary frontier, offering students the ability to walk through ancient Roman forums, explore the human circulatory system from the inside, or visualise complex geometric planes in three dimensions. However,

Written by Thuy Pham, Spectrum Books. The Learning Staircase Every school has that teacher. The one everyone sends students to when fractions just aren’t making sense. Or the teacher who somehow turns reluctant writers into confident ones. Or the colleague who always seems to know exactly what to say when

Written by Valerie Wangnet, CONNETIX. Some concepts are difficult for young learners to grasp when they only exist as words, numbers or diagrams on a page. With CONNETIX, children can build, test and manipulate ideas – transforming abstract concepts into tangible learning experiences and allowing curiosity to take over. Here

Written by Jasmine Healy-Pagan, Youth Reset. Why Sleep Education Matters Sleep is one of the most important foundations of lifelong wellbeing. Each night, the brain restores itself, strengthens memory, regulates the nervous system and prepares us to learn, connect and thrive. Yet many children, teenagers and adults are sleeping less

Written by International Baccalaureate. Australian schools are navigating an increasingly complex education landscape. Alongside delivering strong academic outcomes, educators are strengthening literacy and numeracy, responding to evidence-informed teaching practices, supporting student wellbeing, and preparing young people to thrive in an increasingly interconnected world. Many schools are exploring how to strengthen

Written by ACMI. The excursion that keeps teaching long after the bus ride home Think back to your own first school excursion. The long bus ride. The buzz of being out of the classroom. That one moment that stuck with you for years afterwards. You probably don’t remember the planning

Written by Banqer. As an educator, it can be challenging to plan and deliver interactive lesson content that effectively engages and educates your students. That challenge can be even trickier when it comes to teaching financial education. That’s where Banqer comes in! Our mission is to empower educators with innovative

Written by Angi King, IG3 Education. How schools can use AI responsibly, and where Wayground can support practical teaching and learning. Artificial intelligence has moved quickly from being a future-facing concept to something teachers, students and school leaders are already encountering in everyday learning. For Australian schools, the question is

Written by Ian Holden and Joanne Knight, We Support Hands-On Learning. Student disengagement, declining attendance and screen fatigue are challenges many schools are grappling with today. While classrooms have long since returned to face-to-face learning, the habits of pandemic-era teaching remain. PowerPoint presentations and video-based instruction now play a significant

Written by Dr. Karsten Schulz, Chief Black Box Opener, Digital Technologies Institute Brisbane A student asks a generative AI system to write a program, explain a concept or help produce an essay. Within seconds, a polished response appears. It may be convincing. It may even be correct. But when the

Written by Victoria Spicer-Stuart, Head of Teaching & Learning, Beaconhills College Being Human in the World of AI Sir Arthur C. Clarke once said, “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” And whilst Clarke made this observation long before ChatGPT was even a twinkle in Sam Altman’s eye, one

Written by Roy Rozario, Warwick University Using the Expansive Learning Framework to Integrate Evolving Technologies in Classroom Practice The integration of emerging technologies within educational practice requires a sophisticated lens to navigate systemic change. Cultural-Historical Activity Theory (CHAT)- specifically its third-generation iteration, also called Expansive Learning Theory, developed by Yrjö