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In Sydney, visiting family…
I’m writing this week’s blog from Sydney. It’s been a big week of end-of-academic-year formalities and celebrations and now my family is congregating in Sydney to celebrate my mum’s 60th birthday! It...
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Books of Buderim now stocks Nurturing Intelligence
Local author and local book seller band together! Books of Buderim is a gorgeous store – drop by, have a browse and have a look at Nurturing Intelligence in softcover.
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“Alison, would it be reasonable to say that we could condense 12 years of school into six years, if we cut the nonsense?” I cringe when questions like this one pop up at parties. I’m sure there are...
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Bringing COURAGE back into fashion
This blog has been a long time coming! The last couple of months have been packed to the brim. Thank you for your patience, and thanks for the encouraging hints from readers to keep writing! A topic...
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Published!
The role that teachers play in overcoming the effects of stress and trauma on children’s social psychological development is now available in Springer’s Social Psychology of Education: An International...
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What you want to do as a teacher is give students the benefit of the doubt, show kindness, hope they are being trustworthy, and that perhaps they might learn a lesson about human decency along the...
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