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Jul 17, 2024 • 19min
Teacher research informing practice
In this episode of School Improvement Editor Jo Earp is joined by Jake Compton, Director of Academic Culture and a teacher in the Senior School at Canterbury College, which has been working with academics at the UQ Learning Lab since 2020. We’ll be talking about some of the projects, how they’ve evolved over the years, and the challenges along the way.
Host: Jo Earp
Guest: Jake Compton

Jul 10, 2024 • 35min
Teaching for creativity across the curriculum
In this episode of our Global Education podcast, Editor Jo Earp talks to Lead Practitioner Sarah Childs and Associate Professor Kerry Chappell about their involvement in England’s Creativity Collaboratives partnership program, including the important role of teachers as action researchers, and details of the Toolkit resources developed to help others.
Host: Jo Earp
Guests: Sarah Childs and Kerry Chappell

Jul 3, 2024 • 22min
School Assembly Series 2 Final
School Assembly is the podcast series where we explore what it takes to build a school from the ground up. It’s the Series 2 Final and Bemin Secondary College Principal Jo Camozzato joins Teacher Editor Jo Earp to reflect on the events of the last 12 months.
Host: Jo Earp
Guest: Jo Camozzato
Sponsor: Teachers Mutual Bank

Jun 27, 2024 • 11min
Teacher Staffroom: Mid-year check in
We’re at the end of term 2 in Australia and in this episode of Teacher Staffroom, we catch you up on content we’ve published recently that you might find useful at this time of year – including tax tips for teachers, leaders seeking feedback from staff to inform their next steps, and the benefits of successful partnerships with universities.
Host: Dominique Russell
Sponsor: Teachers Mutual Bank

Jun 19, 2024 • 38min
Successful school and university partnerships
Highly effective schools enhance student outcomes by fostering strong 2-way partnerships. In this episode of School Improvement, Dominique Russell is joined by Lesley Johnson from Trinity College in Adelaide, and Simon Leonard from the University of South Australia to discuss the success of their partnership that has been ongoing since 2017, including how it’s improving practice for both school and university staff.
Host: Dominique Russell
Guests: Lesley Johnson and Simon Leonard
Sponsor: Grok Academy (grokacademy.org)

Jun 12, 2024 • 28min
Helping students become hybrid writers
We’re increasingly using digital devices for our written communications, but researchers from Edith Cowan University here in Australia have recently highlighted the ongoing importance of explicitly teaching both handwriting and keyboarding skills to students, starting in the primary years. Lead researcher Dr Anabela Malpique joins us for today’s episode of The Research Files. She’s a Senior Lecturer in Literacy at the School of Education at ECU, and we’ll be chatting about the findings of a meta-analysis comparing the effects of writing by hand or keyboarding on primary students’ writing performance, and a follow-up study with grade 2 students in Western Australia. She’ll also be sharing some tips for how teachers in the classroom, and in collaboration with families, can help students become hybrid writers.
Host: Jo Earp
Guest: Dr Anabela Malpique
Sponsor: Teachers Mutual Bank

Jun 5, 2024 • 24min
Staff collaboration and feedback
Welcome to Episode 10 of the School Assembly podcast series, where we explore what it takes to build a school from the ground up. In Series 2 we’ve been following Jo Camozzato and the team at the dual campus Bemin Secondary College in the Melbourne suburb of Truganina. Our topic for this episode is staff collaboration – we’ll be talking about how you foster that with a completely new team, setting aside time for collaboration, uncovering and sharing staff expertise, and how feedback informs planning.
Host: Jo Earp
Guest: Jo Camozzato

Jun 2, 2024 • 3min
Teacher Awards 2024: Nominations are now open!
Today, nominations open for the 2024 Teacher Awards! In this special episode, Teacher Editor, Jo Earp, introduces the 2024 Award categories, our Judging Panel, and information on how you can enter. Find out more here: www.teachermagazine.com/teacherawards
Host: Jo Earp

May 30, 2024 • 11min
Staffroom: Working with families and students on attendance
If you listened to last month’s episode of Teacher Staffroom, you’ll remember we spoke about new research that found the attendance of a year 9 student experiencing disadvantage can be a key indicator of whether or not they complete year 12. The report said that closely monitoring student attendance is important, but what strategies can schools implement to ensure they’re supporting students to have high attendance? We’ve explored some recent international research on this topic, and also looked at how one school in Australia is focusing on attendance. So, in this episode of Teacher Staffroom I’ll be bringing you up to speed on this content and, of course, I’ll also bring you a couple of my other personal highlights.
Host: Dominique Russell
Sponsor: Grok Academy (grokacademy.org)

May 22, 2024 • 32min
A focus on student attendance
In this podcast episode, Glenn Kayes, Deputy Principal at Kellyville High School in New South Wales, shares how the school’s average student attendance rate has increased, thanks to an evaluation and review of existing policies and procedures, and a raft of new measures.
Host: Jo Earp
Guest: Glenn Kayes