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Adam Voigt

Adam Voigt

Adam Voigt is a former principal and founder and CEO of Real Schools.

Teachers, who strive to build trust with parents every day, will also be devastated by this case.

I was charmed by a respected school principal. I’m devastated to discover his evil secret

For the parents whose trust has been shattered and the teachers who will bear the shame, the sentence for this case can only feel inadequate.

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Australian teachers are now among the most stressed of all OECD countries.

Why our teachers are choosing mining jobs over classrooms

It wasn’t surprising to discover this week our teachers are now ranked as the world’s third most stressed among OECD countries. That’s up from a ranking of 15th in 2018.

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Suspended students interpret the experience as a message that they don’t belong at the school anymore.

School suspensions beget more suspensions. It’s rare that they fix student behaviour

When I worked as a school principal, literally nothing in the job robbed me of more sleep than when I had to suspend students.

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Teachers are there to educate children – they can’t resolve every problem in their lives.

Teachers can’t heal every child’s scar – and parents shouldn’t expect them to

The fundamental premise of therapy-based approaches in primary schools is that our kids are broken. All of them. And they’re not.

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Yarra Valley Grammar School principal, Mark Merry.

Expelling problem students sounds impressive. But all it does is pass the buck

In kicking the can of responsibility for the Yarra Valley Grammar students who ranked their female classmates to another school, parents are missing the point.

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Cranbrook School was the subject a Four Corners report this week.

Telling students they’re ‘elite’ fails them, their school and our society

There is a grave danger when an overprivileged individual leverages the network of an exclusive school to rise effortlessly into a senior position.

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Teachers no have a legal right to disconnect from work, but contact from parents may be the real problem.

Teachers now have the legal right to switch off, but will parents let them?

Teachers are at the centre of a plan to introduce laws that prevent workers being contacted out of office hours. But are we trying to solve the wrong problem?

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The school funding debate doesn’t need to be so divisive.

Pitting us against each other is no way to improve our crumbling school system

No other government would subject parents to a school system that forces them to consider their kids as customers. And you know what? No other country does.

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An open-plan learning space.

Noise, chaos and disengagement: I was wrong about open-plan classrooms

I was the inaugural principal of a school built for co-teaching, a model where two teachers worked together with around 50 students. Then the trouble began. Poor behaviour soared, students fell through the cracks, the noise was too much.

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A number of Victorian parents were outraged by Clifton Spring’s introduction of unisex bathrooms at their local primary school.

Unisex school toilets aren’t the bogeyman you think they are

Instead of the classic boys and girls bathrooms, a Victorian primary school has opted for unisex toilets. But is this the education hill we should die on?

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