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2022 Sydney Opera House Conversations Wrap-up

Sydney Opera House Pasi Sahlberg Conversation project is an annual 3-part series of essential talks and discussions about the Australian education and how it could be improved. I have been privileged to host amazing guests during past two years, including Eddie Woo, Chris Sarra, Sarah Donnelley and Sharon Goldfeld. All these conversations are recorded and slightly edited…

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Equity in education should be clearly defined

Achieving equity in education has long been a key aspect of the national education policies and goals for schooling. Most recently it is one of the key goals in the Alice Springs (Mparntwe) Declaration (2019) set for Australian education and its future development.…

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Australian education 10 years after

This year Australia acknowledge an anniversary of a rare opportunity to truly transform education as we have had it. Ten years have passed since the landmark

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Can rock ‘n’ roll save our schools?

We have tried almost everything to make our schools better for all kids. More this and little bit less that. We have change the order of curriculum delivery and asked kids to try harder. And, yes, we think more data and tougher sanctions when these data show set targets are not met would be the road to better schools. All of these and other ideas have left many wonder, what next. How about making music education accessible…

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‘By Design’: New essay in the Griffith Review #75

I was just about to pass my third year as a resident in Australia when I sent my manuscript to the Griffith Review. It was an essay, my manifesto, about experiences and lessons learned during those three years as an educator, parent of school-age boys, and community member in vibrant city of Sydney. My manuscript had a working title “Fixing Australian Education” and it suggest that we need a whole new way of thinking…

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2021 Podcasts wrapped

I have been enjoying several great conversations with colleagues and educators around the world this year that have also been recorded as podcasts. Here are some of those listed in random order. Thank you to all my hosts of these episodes. I hope you’ll like to listen these. PODCAST: Reimagine schools with Greg Goins Finnish Lessons with Pasi Sahlberg In this episode, Finnish educator,…

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ACEL awards 2021

I have been awarded two Australian Council for Educational Leaders (ACEL) awards this year. ACEL is a not-for-profit organisation that supports the development of educational leadership capabilities across Australia through conferences and workshops, leadership programs, and online resources. ACEL is the largest professional association in the education sector in Australia and the wider Asia-Pacific region. It has a growing…

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New article: Leadership for equity and adequacy in education

The World Bank,  the OECD and the United Nations recently recognised educational inequity as a growing global challenge. But what does educational equity look like and how is it achieved?

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New book: In Teachers We Trust

In the spring of 2018, thousands of teachers across the United States—in states like Oklahoma, Kentucky, and Arizona—walked off their jobs while calling for higher wages and better working conditions. Ultimately, these American educators trumpeted a simple request: treat us like professionals. Teachers in many other countries feel the same way as their US counterparts. In this new book with Tim Walker we explore…

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Does the pandemic help us make education more equitable?

Everybody agrees that the COVID-19 pandemic is a big disruption in education. It questions many traditional rules and structures that have organised the work of schools in the past. But not everyone agrees that the pandemic will eventually change schools. In this article, I narrow the scope of that question and ask whether the pandemic helps us fix some of the pre-existing inequalities that we were unable, and often unwilling,…

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