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Principal, passionate educator, life long learner!

Joined January 2014
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"Other people are doing it" is not a justification for being dishonest or disrespectful. Character is more than who you are at your best. It's who you become when your peers are at their worst. The heart of integrity is upholding your principles even if others abandon theirs.
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“there had been a further deterioration in earnings in education compared with similar sectors and inflation was putting further pressure on teachers, while workloads were increasing” theguardian.com/australia-ne…
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Finally, after 9 years the lie is unmasked & the doors open. A colossal waste of time, money & innocent life. My apologies to everyone we’ve harmed. There’s a long journey to ensure it never happens again. But for now, the Game is Over. #GameOver abc.net.au/news/2022-04-07/f…
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The more that students must "work at storing the deposits [of knowledge] entrusted to them" - e.g., by studying for tests - "the less they develop the critical consciousness which would result from their intervention in the world as transformers of that world" -Paolo Freire
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Congratulations on being shortlisted Margaret - an achievement in its own right
👏🏼 Great news! Aussie Margaret Wild is one of 6 authors shortlisted for the Hans Christian Andersen Award, the world's most prestigious international children's book award. Winner announced 21 Mar at Bologna Children's Book Fair @IBBYINT ibby.org/archive-storage/HCA…
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Women will decide this election not Murdoch Costello or Kerry Stokes
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When mistakes are not penalized, we’re more likely to keep trying.  And if we keep trying, we have more chances of eventually succeeding. – at Miami, FL
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"Learning should be seen as a qualitative change in a person's way of seeing, experiencing, understanding, conceptualizing something in the real world - rather than as a quantitative change in the amount of knowledge someone possesses" -Paul Ramsden
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Want to know the latest findings into imagination in #STEM & imagination in play? @MonashEducation PlayLab research is rocketing in. Free open access to working papers can be found here👇🏼 monash.edu/education/researc… Thanks @arc_gov_au 5yr funds to crack the code on play & learning
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How to transform school education in Australia over the next ten years pwc.com.au/government/govern…
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This morning we released 'Rising Seas', a new song plus clip, to help lift the tempo on desperately needed, real action on the #ClimateCrisis - check it out here @midnightoilband youtu.be/BWgesOsL2dA
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From linguistic profiling to english proficiency. St Michael’s is the first primary school in the Parramatta Diocese to complete linguistic and cultural profiles on every student with the support and guidance of Teaching Educator Lise Sercombe and @SoSueSays #CatholicEdParra
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Big news! Catholic Education Diocese of Parramatta wins NSW VET Provider of the Year and St Mark’s Stanhope Gardens Year 10 student Ethan Zammit wins NSW VET student of the Year. Congratulations to the team and to Ethan! ⁦@CatholicEdParra⁩ ⁦@CathSchoolsNSW⁩
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This is such an important thing for us to model for our kids!
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Could the Pandemic Change Education for the Better? - ASCD ascd.org/el/articles/could-t…
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COVID gives us a chance to rethink traditional end-of-school exams, and move into the 21 century theconversation.com/covid-gi…