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✳️ The Wrong Exam: When the System Stops Measuring What Matters
Two exam headlines have dominated Australian education news in recent weeks. In Queensland, Ancient History students discovered they’d spent the year studying the wrong topic. In Victoria, English students were blindsided by a random, unattributed quote that left even their teachers confused. For the students involved, these weren’t just slip-ups. They were moments that revealed something most of us already know - that the system we’ve built to measure learning is no longer
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Beyond the Grade: What Our Kids Really Need From Feedback
Grades, those neat little letters, are supposed to reflect learning. But do they really?
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Seeing Your School Through a New Lens: How AI is Powering Contemporary Transformation
“ My job of leading the contemporary transformation of my school has just become easier. With the AI reflection tool, I now know exactly when to leverage EduShift’s consultants at just the right moment, ensuring our professional learning is precisely targeted and perfectly timed for our contemporary transformation journey. It’s like having a flexible, insightful guide that lets me inquire and reflect using the latest information before bringing in the right expertise, both in
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How Adaptive Learning is Transforming Education
In today’s fast-paced educational environment, technology that adapts to student progress is transforming how learners engage with...
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Are Novel Studies Making English Teachers Redundant?
Everything in that process, from the comprehension questions to the theme analysis, can now be done by AI.
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Teachers in the Age of AI: Why Fear is the Real Threat
Artificial Intelligence (AI) isn’t going anywhere. In fact, its rapid uptake across industries has made it one of the most disruptive...
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Transform or Close: The Future of Traditional Schools by 2030
As we saw during the pandemic, schools were forced to pivot, almost overnight, to embrace technological advancements. Without that...
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The Quiet Revolutions in Education You’ll Miss if You’re Only Watching the Headlines
If you only judged education by the conference keynotes and LinkedIn buzz, you’d think our future is being written entirely by AI...
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If the Walls Could Talk: What Your Classroom Says About Learning
At EduShift, we believe that learning environments aren’t just backdrops to education, they’re powerful, silent partners in the learning...
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Designing AI‑Enhanced Learning Tasks: A Practical Guide for Educators
Despite growing interest in AI, many teachers are still unsure about how to bring it into the classroom meaningfully. There’s fear around...
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Holiday Read Part 2: Innovation, Culture & Trust in Education
As you move into the second week of the school holidays or back to school (depending on your state), you may be feeling ready to look...
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School Holiday Reads - Mindset, Wellbeing & the Future of Learning
As the school term winds down and the holidays stretch ahead, it’s the perfect time for educators to press pause, take a breath, and...
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What If We Designed School Like a Start-Up?
When we think about innovation, education is rarely the first sector that comes to mind. Start-ups? Sure. Tech? Absolutely. But schools?...
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Beyond the ATAR: Rethinking What Senior School is Really For
For too long, the final years of school in Australia have been framed as a high-stakes sprint to a number - the ATAR. It's the yardstick...
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Was Finland’s Educational Success an Accident – or the Perfect Design?
A few different versions of this meme have been making the rounds recently, claiming Finland “accidentally” created the world’s best...
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The Hidden Curriculum of Compliance: Unpacking What We’re Really Teaching
Walk into any school, and beyond the explicit curriculum of maths, literacy, and science, there’s another layer of learning taking place;...
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Stop Fixing the Peg. The Hole is the Problem.
Every week, my social feeds fill with reflections from educators: "Today we explored how AI will impact teaching and learning..." "An...
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What is Student Engagement in a Contemporary World?
“When students are engaged, they invest in their learning emotionally, cognitively, and behaviourally. Engagement is not about...
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Empowering Learner Agency: Co-Designing Education Together
In terms of learner agency and voice, how can we create a model in which students are empowered as co-designers of their learning, with genuine input into both what they learn and how they learn it?
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Why School Leaders Need a Coach: Empowering Change Through a Strengths-Based Approach
In schools today, leadership can feel like both a privilege and a pressure cooker. The stakes are high, the demands are relentless, and yet the support for school leaders often falls short. This is where coaching, high-impact, strengths-based, reflective coaching, can make all the difference.
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