Top Reads: Education leaders, you can’t do your job in isolation
This fortnight's top reads from the team at ISV.
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Every fortnight, ISV's Innovation & Learning Leaders share their top reads for teachers and educators.
1. Education leaders, you can’t do your job in isolation
‘It was an unusual way to begin our leadership-team retreat. District leaders and principals were quickly divided into groups of five when they walked into the room. They were asked to select a team leader, pick out a large gift-wrapped box and find a fairly large work spot in our high school library,’ write Peter DeWitt & Michael Nelson.
2. What happened last time Australia tried to make a ‘clean’ internet
For anyone who has been online in Australia longer than a decade or so, the discussion around current proposals to set a minimum age for social media use might trigger a touch of déjà vu. Between 2007 and 2012, the Rudd–Gillard government’s ‘Clean Feed’ internet filter sparked similar debates.
3. Boys and the crisis of connection
Drawing from her research and interviews with boys over the past three decades, Niobe Way, a professor of developmental psychology reveals how boys in early adolescence express a strong desire for close, emotionally intimate friendships, but as they grow older, societal pressures cause them to suppress these feelings.
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