Many parents end up homeschooling by accident. By this I mean, they didn’t set out to be homeschools – but something happened and for some reason or another, they and/or their kids just decided that school wasn’t working for them anymore. This can be a scary realisation when it happens, particularly as many parents don’t …
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I recently had the good fortune of visiting Thebarton Senior College, and I was so excited to find that they didn’t ring a bell or sound an alarm to signal the end of the lesson. Instead, they relied on students and staff to manage their own time and get where they needed to be. I’m …
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I was an early pioneer of online teaching, teaching through video conference to classrooms overseas before Zoom, Collaborate, Google Classrooms and Microsoft Teams existed. I’ve got over 10 years of experience teaching online in universities, and I have spent the last four years developing an online curriculum for high school children who, for whatever reason, …
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