PIP Camps and Excursions; Thursday, 2nd September 2010; Wagga Wagga NSW; 4:30pm - 6:30pm. read more

Safety First-IEU Seminar Series; Monday, 6th September 2010; Penrith NSW; 8:30am - 3:30pm. read more

Women in Education Committee Meeting; Thursday, 9th September 2010; Armidale NSW; 4:30pm - 6:30pm. read more

Parramatta Principals' Meeting; Thursday, 9th September 2010; Rooty Hill NSW; 7:30 - 8:45 am. read more

Safety First; Friday, 10th September 2010; Ballina NSW; 8:30am - 3:30pm. read more

Principals Branch Meeting; Saturday, 11th September 2010; Parramatta IEU Office; 10:00 am. read more

Principals' Breakfast Meeting - Sydney Eastern Region; Tuesday, 21st September 2010; Daceyville NSW; 7:30 - 8:45 am. read more

2010 IEU Race Day; Wednesday, 29th September 2010; Canterbury NSW; 12:30pm - 5:00 pm. read more

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Anti Discrimination

Saving the World

Getting students enthusiastic about social justice issues and involving them in making a difference to people’s lives around the world is no small feat. That’s where Fair Trade for All comes in.
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Campaigns and Issues

Ronni Kahn - Founder of OzHarvest

Named Local Hero at this year’s Australia Day awards, Ronni Kahn is the founder of OzHarvest, an organisation that collects leftover food from restaurants to redistribute to the needy
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Bullying in schools: who’s to blame?

Bullying has always been a critical issue in our schools. With the death of a student at a Catholic boys school in Brisbane this year, allegedly at the hands of a fellow student, bullying remains a hot topic.
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Breaking Down the Barriers

Teachers can get their multiculturalism with bells on from a unique facility in suburban Newcastle.
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Education

Testing times for student assessments

The direction of assessment and reporting policies has long been influenced by political imperatives, many unrelated to sound educational principles.
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Numbers man

Can compulsory student measurements be made to count when it comes to student learning? Dr John De Courcy explains to Journalist Sue OSBORNE the rationale behind his statistical analysis, which he says is one way to use test data to improve teaching and learning
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Industrial/Legal

Damage done

Justice Elizabeth Fullerton of the Supreme Court of NSW awarded damages against the State of NSW in a case brought by a former student of a government school. Those damages totalled approximately $468,000.
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Information Technology

Even the tucker is ‘on message’

SMS (Short Message Service) is radically changing our schools. New systems are transforming the way teachers, parents and students receive information. Journalist Fiona STUTZ examines the use of SMS in the daily running of a school.
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A look at cyber-bullying

Fists and feet are giving way to computers, mobile phones and social networking sites as the modern bully’s weapons of choice.
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Social networks — too dangerous for schools?

A teacher eats out with friends and the following evening posts a Facebook comment about feeling a bit ‘under the weather’ at work that day, another group of teachers exchanges a mildly risqué joke on the site.
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Is 3D Cheating?

Cinematic history is littered with gimmicks, technological tricks, and innovative experiences.
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Professional Development

Guide to Teaching Students with Disabilities

Author and Education Professor Peter Westwood explains the rationale behind his latest book, What Teachers Need to Know About Students with Disabilities.
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School

Australia wide

Part-time work is often seen as too hard for employers and the soft option for staff, and dismissed without further consideration. However, with the right arrangements in place, part-time work can be rewarding for both the school community and the employee.
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Doing time at King’s

Jenny Pearce is one of more than 70 archivists at non-government schools around NSW.
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Learning about life at Luurnpa

Kerri Hamer is on a steeper learning curve than most of her students at Luurnpa Catholic School, deep in Australia’s red heart.
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No walls, no restrictions at Mernda

VIEU Education officer, Cathy Hickey, explores new territory in primary school design. Daniel Thomas is the foundation Principal at St Joseph’s, Mernda, and has introduced a “learning village” education philosophy, where open space studios are substituted for classrooms.
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School Leadership - why a focus on women?

Australia, like most OECD countries, is faced with the imminent retirement of a large proportion of its principals and other school leaders, from the post-war ‘baby boomer’ generation.
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Dealt a crippling blow by My School

I concur with the sentiments presented by David Higgins in his article, ‘What’s Up with My School?’ (IE V40#1 p13) and endorse the suggestion that “we must be extremely careful about what we publish in the name of transparency”.
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Social Justice

A healing game

Every relationship is an exercise in sustainability, peace, social justice, equity, and ecological health.
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Support Staff

Jack of all trades and master of finance

Bursar (n) a treasurer or business officer. Sounds about right but nowhere in the Macquarie Dictionary does it mention driving buses, fixing solar panels or clambering about on roofs.
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