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Monday, 11 Jun 2018
CHARTING COURSE: stand up and be counted
Picture a single, conspicuous figure, standing out from the masses. A lone individual who goes against the flow. This person is making a public statement about their convictions. They’ve decided to...
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Monday, 11 Jun 2018
CHARTING COURSE: gradually, then suddenly
“How did you go bankrupt?” Bill asked. “Two ways,” Mike said. “Gradually, then suddenly.” These lines from Ernest Hemingway’s novel The Sun Also Rises, reveal a lot about the human...
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Monday, 11 Jun 2018
Practical tips to get your child into the right frame of mind for school
Oh, bliss! It's the week before school and our brains are tap dancing with a mixture of trepidation and joy at the thought of getting back into the school routine. ...
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Monday, 11 Jun 2018
CHARTING COURSE: ask the right questions
When our children are in their first years of school, we have conversations with them that sound a bit like this: Parent: What did you learn today, Junior? Junior: I found out...
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Monday, 11 Jun 2018
CHARTING COURSE: there is more in you than you think!
Kurt Hahn led a remarkable life as an educator and shaper of modern Education philosophy. During the rise of Hitler and the Nazi Party in the early 1930s, he was...
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Monday, 11 Jun 2018
CHARTING COURSE: what we're doing about social-emotional literacy
SBS's Testing Teachers documented the experiences of talented new teachers as they went into some of Australia’s most challenging classrooms. As viewers, we gained a unique insight into how a classroom...
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Friday, 11 May 2018
CHARTING COURSE: How do we intend to deal with bullying?
What is bullying exactly? But also, what isn't it? What are the distinctions between an argument, a disagreement, a one-off thoughtless or mean action—the type of conflict that arises in...
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Friday, 11 May 2018
CHARTING COURSE to changing behaviours and dealing with bullying
Trigger warning: This article talks about bullying and teenage suicide. Many of us were shocked by the recent death of 14 year old Amy Everett who played the role of...
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Friday, 11 May 2018
CHARTING COURSE to innovative learning
At the 2018 Queensland Adventist Schools conference, I felt great pride when I witnessed Brisbane Adventist College staff receiving four out of a possible eight Innovation Awards. This is quite something if...
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