On Monday 8th October at 9.35pm AEST Australia’s Broadcasting Company ABC hosts a conversation about education. Q&A is a television discussion program that focuses mostly on politics but ranges across all of the big issues that set Australians thinking, talking and debating, like education. Q&A provides an opportunity for Australian citizens to directly question and hold to account politicians and key…
read moreThe recent release of the ambitious Review to Achieve Educational Excellence in Australian Schools (“Gonski 2.0“) report has Australia buzzing about what the future holds in reforming Australian education. Will we see an end to NAPLAN or the HSC? How will teachers’ work change in planning for individual student…
read moreMarch 1, 2018 The core mission of the Gonski Institute for Education is to address growing inequality in Australian education as well as improving access for students to high-quality education wherever they may go to school. We will do this by delivering practical, interdisciplinary research as well as focused professional development.…
read moreGreat leaders are also leading learners. If leaders don’t learn, then the learning in the organizations they lead is not likely to flourish.…
read moreHur mår egentligen välfärdssverige? Erfarna reportern Britt-Marie Mattsson tar med sig superrevisorn Inga-Britt Ahlenius och ställer diagnos på patienten. I kvällens program synas skolan, bland annat med hjälp av en tur till vårt grannland Finland – som är bäst i klassen. Vi träffar också…
read morePress release 7 December 2017 World-renowned Finnish educator Dr Pasi Sahlberg has been appointed a Professor of Education at UNSW Sydney and will work with the University’s new interdisciplinary institute focussing on educational access and excellence, the Gonski Institute for Education (GIE).…
read moreI was privileged to spend almost three years at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education teaching ad researching educational change for a completely new perspective. As an alien observer to education policies and practices in the United States allowed me to ask funny questions and also reflect my own perceptions about what education actually is all for. Tens of school visits and hundreds of conversations with teachers,…
read moreBeyond Bystanders calls for a shift in the professional self-image of teachers from agents of socialization to active advocates of human flourishing, social justice, and world betterment. The editors propose that it is irresponsible for teachers to posit themselves as bystanders and to conceive of globalization as something happening to them. Their role as educators in all disciplines must be to establish educational…
read moreMy new book with Karen Hammerness and Raisa Ahtiainen titled Empowered Educators in Finland will appear in April as part of a series, with a main volume by Linda Darling-Hammond and Dion Burns: EMPOWERED EDUCATORS: HOW HIGH-PERFORMING SYSTEMS SHAPE TEACHING QUALITY AROUND THE WORLD. This work delves into a number of high-performing educational systems, and describes how they create a coherent set of policies designed…
read more20 January 2017 My new book “Hard Questions on Global Educational Change” is now published by Teachers College Press and available in all main bookstores. It is a very different book than Finnish Lessons 2.0 in many ways. Hard Questions is a joint effort with my Harvard University teaching team and our students during academic year 2015/2016 who took the HGSE course A319 with the same title. Students worked…
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