John DeCourcy

smh.com.au/world/europe/a…. A great tribute to the power of good teaching.

I'm pleased to advise users that the 2022 Analysis is now available in the portal.

Australia's teacher shortage won't be solved until we treat teaching as a profession, not a trade theconversation.com/australias-tea… via @ConversationEDU

If you get a chance, see “Them”. A viscerally powerful piece of new Australian theatre now touring. Re-imagining what it is to be a refugee, before you were a refugee. apt.org.au/product/them/

No wonder teacher recruitment is hard. A 25-year study of teacher-bashing in the Australian media. Tell us something we didn’t know! theconversation.com/no-wonder-no-o…

smh.com.au/national/teach… Jenny Gore telling it as it is. What she said!

I'm pleased to advise users that the 2021 Analysis is now available.

COVID and schools: Australia is about to feel the full brunt of its teacher shortage theconversation.com/covid-and-scho… via @ConversationEDU

Teaching is a relational game. @bjmurrayauthor nails it in this searing account of lives and students in Australian secondary school. The School. Wow.

In all of the debate about Climate Change, there's just one main driver: CO2 in the atmostphere. Nothing we have done so far as a species has slowed it down.

Lockdown brings some benefits. Time to read! Just finished a great read... "Look deeper and ask questions"!! timharford.com/books/datadete…

Interesting article from Atlassian on meeting the challenges of virtual teams. atlassian.com/blog/teamwork/…

Some excellent advice from The Conversation on helping parents (and teachers!) navigate online searching with students at home. theconversation.com/learning-from-…

Finally, some good educational news for Australia from the international testing program. theconversation.com/australia-lift…

In a week of political speeches full of twaddle, this is a powerful one straight from the heart. Well done Jacqui Lamborghini

Moving on from "Do we really need the ATAR?", these researchers ask "Do we really need the HSC?" theconversation.com/we-know-by-yea…

Best explanation I’ve read on how a coronavirus vaccine would work. apple.news/Af4aJw5JaSxmQK…

Another great idea from the Kiwis: "Government spends $4m to boost creative learning programme and hire 300 art teachers" nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/articl…

@HargreavesBC @IOE_London @DianeRavitch @steve_munby @TeacherToolkit He was a great mentor to me and many others. Always humble, always relentless in seeking truth. Vale.

Very sad to report the passing of @IOE_London Prof Harvey Goldstein - relentlessly brilliant critic of misused test data & politicized accountability processes. ioelondonblog.wordpress.com/2020/04/16/in-… @DianeRavitch @steve_munby @TeacherToolkit