Schools 10 of the best podcasts to help you get ready for a new term Listen to these smart and inspiring podcasts to help with new ideas for the year ahead once you go back to school after Easter break.
For everyone Book review: Growing Up Disabled in Australia The latest addition to Black Inc.’s Growing Up in Australia offers a privileged insight into the internal experience of disability.
For everyone Film review: Words on Bathroom Walls A thoughtful look at neurodiversity makes for a coming-of-ager with a difference.
For everyone TV review: Call My Agent If you haven’t discovered the Gallic genius of this Netflix show, then, ooh la la, you’re in for a treat.
For everyone People at work LUCY TRELOAR: Workplaces are incredibly complex – like ponds with endlessly intersecting ripples. The reach of a difficult person can be vast.
For everyone Media diversity, the internet and democracy In our age of information overload, learning to navigate the news has become an essential life skill, argues DENIS MULLER.
For everyone My nine steps to being a better colleague A.J.BETTS: Need to rehabilitate your relationships at work? Try my guide, ‘Nine Steps to Being a Better Colleague’.
For everyone In the classroom, size matters TRAVIS McKENZIE: Will the 2021 school tutors program finally force the government to recognise the benefits of lower class sizes?
For everyone Teaching the truth Together, we must build an education system that amplifies our Indigenous history and culture, and enables First Nations students to feel proud and strong, writes teacher RENEE SONGORO.
For everyone Slow reads for summer daze Some of the best books to read these summer holidays – those rare weeks when we rediscover the joy of reading for pleasure alone.
For everyone When ‘gender blind’ means ‘can’t see women’ Taking pride in its ‘gender neutral’ budget reveals just how blind the Morrison government is to women, and to the true meaning of equality, argues JANE CARO.
For everyone My mindful meltdown The mental health of teachers and students has never been more serious, so why are current wellbeing strategies making me laugh, asks teacher and columnist TRAVIS MCKENZIE.
For everyone Wine: the glitz and the glamour Langhorne Creek may not be one of the glitz and glamour regions in Australian wine, but it is much undervalued.
For everyone Have yourself a merry COVID Christmas It’s hard to get our hopes up for a ‘normal Christmas’ when there’s a chance the COVID-Grinch will drop down the chimney and cough all over the tinsel, writes A.J BETTS.
For everyone Becoming better and braver From the bushfires of summer and autumn, to the reverberations of the COVID crisis, it’s little wonder that emotional exhaustion became our new normal, writes LUCY TRELOAR.
For everyone Listen and learn: Indigenous resources online With the growing number of online resources, it is easier than ever to bring Indigenous knowledge and awareness into our classrooms. Here are a few places to start.
For everyone Taking the drama out of remote learning While remote learning brought its hardships, NED MANNING found it also had some surprising benefits.
For everyone Wine: a taxing question Regular imbibers should be interested to learn that a proposal to tax wine by volume rather than value, first mooted more than a decade ago, is still alive and simmering.
For everyone Film review: First Cow Kelly Reichardt’s lyrical new film tells a rich tale of friendship between two underdogs – and a cow.
For everyone Book review: The Details We review The Details: On Love, Death and Reading by writer and teacher Tegan Bennett Daylight.