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Empowering teenage girls

This 2025 article from clinical psychologist Andrew Fuller focuses on teenage girls – their strengths and their challenges. The article begins: Much of the recent

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Study Work Grow website

The Study Work Grow website is a useful online resource to help senior students – and their families – through the maze of career and further study choices. Created by a social enterprise, the website

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Beyond Academics: The Relationship Blueprint

This is a very thought-provoking video discussion between two thought leaders in the areas of education and child development: Dr Billy Garvey – Developmental paediatrician, researcher and author, Billy is also the founder of the social enterprise Guiding

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Public school funding: PV submission

Parents Victoria made a submission to the Victorian Parliamentary Inquiry into Public School Funding in late 2025. The submission makes the following points (among others): Victorian government schools are funded well below the SRS benchmark

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Generative AI: What parents need to know

This podcast from the Victorian Academy of Teaching and Leadership is for parents and carers. Parents Victoria CEO Gail McHardy interviews Michael Kollaras (Academy Expert Teacher in Residence) and asks the questions many parents and

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Empowering teenage girls

This 2025 article from clinical psychologist Andrew Fuller focuses on teenage girls – their strengths and their challenges. The article begins: Much of the recent literature on adolescent girls focuses on rising levels of anxiety,

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When we partner, everyone wins!

This webinar video features Dr Karen Mapp, professor of practice at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Karen shares her expertise on the benefits of family engagement, what effective engagement looks like and how schools can

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Public schools: doing more with less

Research published by Save Our Schools in 2025 shows clearly that Australian public schools bear a very large burden of disadvantage but are under-resourced for the challenge. This is because public schools receive less income

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