Bernie Roebuck
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Retired Public High School Principal. Anything for some decency, compassion, and fairness.
Joined August 2014
This is such garbage statistics - no control for student nor school SES, and even worse, no control for prior achievement. The @smh and @lucy_carroll have published a league table of the privilege of birth, not school performance.
smh.com.au
James Ruse is the highest achieving school in the state no matter what data you use. Search the top 150 public schools to see which excel across the whole cohort rather than just band six results.
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@msciffer @smh @lucy_carroll My congratulations to every year 12 teacher and student from our outstanding nsw public schools, regardless of their school’s artificial SMH ranking. Ranking schools whilst completely ignoring context and cohorts is destructive and misleading. The timing is questionable as well.
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Out taking selfies pretending to care about rural communities while our children have no teachers #HonourTheDeal
Good morning Tamworth! đź‘‹ A great (very chilly) morning run before tackling all things regional NSW at the Bush Summit.
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"In some rural schools the number of merged and minimally supervised classes over the past year and a half is running into the thousands per school." #honourthedeal @ChrisMinnsMP
https://t.co/9ap3wRGyQd via @SatPaper
thesaturdaypaper.com.au
NSW teachers strongly supported Chris Minns in the election. Now the withdrawal of a deal for pay rises that could help ease chronic staff shortages in public schools raises the risk of more
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A tragic comment on our nation -we put such little value on our kids education -years of neglect from govt and total inadequacy of educational bureaucrats.Put a value on highly skilled teachers and leaders &pay &treat them properly and things can change
smh.com.au
A scathing auditor general’s report says a plan to lift academic outcomes for regional and remote students in NSW will almost certainly fail.
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So working 50 to 60 hours a week, taking additional classes, doing extra duties, running school holiday HSC classes, working on weekends (I can go on) isn’t productive enough? How much more goodwill can teachers give? The profession is already at breaking point.
Productivity improvements need to be identified and agreed, and we know that teachers have ideas about how to do this while enhancing learning outcomes for students in the classroom. I am committed to this process and serious about improving teachers’ pay and conditions.
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It will be difficult for @pruecar to find anyone in the senior leadership team of Dept of Education with any educational qualifications or experience about how students best learn, how teachers best learn, how each school, indeed each classroom is unique, but the teachers know
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January 1 is Australia Day. This is day Australia became a nation in 1901 when 6 States federated. 26 January is day British created a jail & brutally mistreated convicts & indigenous people who defended their land.. Read my website piece..
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I have already celebrated Australia Day 2023. On 1 January this year, as I do every year, I poured a wee dram of my finest scotch whisky (Lagavulin from Isle of Islay) and quietly proposed a proud...
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Today's Productivity Commission report identified that school segregation is a key cause of social inequality in Australia. Our recent research found segregation is costing students 2 terms of learning from grades 7-9 https://t.co/exqmLR085U
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As long as we put too much money behind kids who are already advantaged & too little behind kids who actually need it, this will continue. The way we fund schools is unjust, ineffective & irresponsible
smh.com.au
Four years after the then-Coalition government signed a funding agreement, the Productivity Commission has found reading and numeracy results have deteriorated.
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The only way to fix the teacher shortage is to improve pay and working conditions. Everything else is window dressing and at times, damaging to the profession, particularly programs like Teach For Australia. #MoreThanThanks
https://t.co/pICk8YTjGN
abc.net.au
A program placing people who want to change careers is being employed in New South Wales from next year, in a move that's hoped will help with the state's teacher shortage — but the teachers' union...
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The best system support you can give all schools @GeorgeHarrisson is to ensure they are all fully staffed with highly trained teachers and leaders who are well paid, with fair working conditions, supported by a bureaucracy that has high level expertise in education
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High speed rail for Australian east coast WILL work. Privatised airport/airlines lobby want to maintain dominance in intrastate market. Our population will rise to 32m by 2055. We need diversified travel/freight and enhanced regional development. Oh .. + full fibre NBN.
Member of Sydney Airport Board says: “High-speed Sydney to Melbourne rail plan will never work” Who would have thunk it?
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OK, this means Dept of Educ bureaucrats can demand to know why NAPLAN or HSC results of residualised or marginalised secondary comprehensive schools are not meeting their academic targets, quite difficult with all capable students hived off to selective schools
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Yet another concerted attempt to destroy comprehensive education in NSW and distract attention from key issues like ensuring that all schools are fully fully staffed with the highest quality teachers and leaders. Sickening
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Who will teach this @smitchellmlc ?
New syllabuses will require a renewed focus on core skills in English and mathematics to boost learning outcomes for all students. https://t.co/x7k0Cn1yIa
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Wonderful, thank you @maurie_mulheron perhaps you were inspired by balaclavas and dogs on our wharves, or lies about refugee children overboard & lies about illegal wheat trade with Saddam Hussein or Work Choices, horror indeed !
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In my 19 years teaching in NSW public school I have never felt such bile from an employer. Stokes and Piccoli respected our profession. Time to go @Dom_Perrottet #march2023 #MoreThanThanks
smh.com.au
The NSW Industrial Relations Commission handed teachers a 6 per cent pay rise over two years, with headline inflation currently running at 7.3 per cent.
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So @sdinhamunimelb that would confirm our position at the top of the most stupid nations, despair comes to mind but so does anger
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