What’s at the heart of Australia’s segregated school system? It’s a values thing.

This is a collaborative guest post I contributed to Tom Mahoney’s site, The Interruption. The encounter with the face of the other is a command that tells us all, uncomfortably, that we are our brother and sister’s keepers – Emmanuel Levinas This year, data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics showed that despite cost-of-living pressures and the declining percentage […]

Bell Shakespeare National Teacher Mentorship:  Are you sure we are awake?

Image: Group 1 National Teacher Mentorship participants with teaching artists Emily Edward (left) and Huw Mckinnon (right). Photo credit: Clare Hawley (2024 NTM Bell Shakespeare) Last year, I was scrolling through an English Teachers Association of Queensland newsletter and the words ‘Bell Shakespeare Teacher Mentorship’ caught my eye.  For anyone who isn’t familiar with Bell […]