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“Read the Research: Reclaiming Professionalism in an Age of Simplified Solutions” | This Reader’s Digest
A reflection on Nicole Brunker’s “Escape Oppression Now: Disrupt the Dominance of Evidence-Based Practice” (EduResearch Matters, AARE, June 2024) Not long ago, I shared a thoughtful, peer-reviewed journal article on pedagogy with a colleague. It offered a nuanced and evidence-rich critique of a dominant instructional trend — exactly the kind of piece that could spark… Read more
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Flippin’ Slow Teaching: Fostering Higher-Order Thinking in the AI Age | This Reader’s Digest
A reflection on: Hague, C. (2024), “Fostering higher-order thinking skills online in higher education: A scoping review”, OECD Education Working Papers, No. 306, OECD Publishing, Paris, https://doi.org/10.1787/84f7756a-en. There’s been a bit of online chatter this week that suggests this particular scoping review was in some way damning of flipped learning approaches. That puzzled me so I took a closer… Read more
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Slow Teaching in a VUCA Age: 9 Reflections from an AI-Disrupted High School Classroom
This Teacher’s Journal: Blog Post 12 | April 6, 2025 As the first Australia teaching term for 2025 closes, for this post I’ve paused to reflect on what I’ve learned from living a full ‘seasonal cycle’ of my teaching model. A lot has unfolded yet I keep returning to one resonant idea: slow teaching. Slow… Read more
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Rethinking Assessment, Trust, and The Tyranny of Perfection
This Teacher’s Journal: Blog Post 11 | March 29, 2025 This week, my classroom shifted mode again. Monday marked the start of what I refer to in my seasonal model of a unit as the “harvest season” – a high-stakes examination for my Year 9 and 10 students. While ‘the harvest’ title for this season… Read more
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“The Ivy League and My Classroom Share a Problem… and We Can Do Better” | This Reader’s Digest
A reflection on: Zimmerman, J. (2025) Elite universities, we have a problem. This post responds to Jonathan Zimmerman’s article, “Elite Universities, We Have a Problem,” shared by Sam Wineburg on LinkedIn. It explores how both elite universities and school classrooms can either flatten or ignite the human spirit through the humanities. Framed as a response… Read more
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6 Insights From An Actual Teacher in an Actual Classroom in an Actual School
This Teacher’s Journal: Blog Post 10 | March 22, 2025 Introduction: Beyond the Hype of Influencers In recent weeks there’s been a lot of chatter on social media about the importance of teachers sharing their voice. (See posts by Bronwyn Ryrie Jones and Michelle Michael) so this post is not a theoretical reflection. It is… Read more
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