Another random thought about 2026 is that popularising social media accounts such as Dr Noc will matter. Public health policy is under attack from those who’d proselytise consumable lies ahead of harder-to-digest scientific evidence.

A reflection I’m having on 2025 is the steady assembling on the education horizon of US style misinformation. 2026 will likely be a year where the defence of govt education as a critical national institution will be more important than ever.

How good is Test cricket?! #Ashes2025

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From my own lived and observed experience, I’ve got some advice for teachers and school leaders already contemplating the start of the 2026 school year: Make firm and fair the signature of your very first lesson. Read more here ... https://t.co/bFiH8SOBA2

Take the 25mins. You won’t regret it. The age of a grotesque and cruel right versus an insipid and cowardly left must end.

Pretty gratuitous and opportunistic performance by Sussan Ley on ABC this morn. It’s difficult to believe Australians will buy this angle at a time when the dead aren’t even buried. Generally, we’re not inclined to join the hate and division when it visits upon us. #auspol #bondi

We’ve helped multiple schools with critical incidents recently. To our Jewish schools and to those local to Bondi, we’re here to help. Drop a line to info@realschools.com.au if you’d like to have chat arranged. It’s a tough time, you don’t have to do it alone. #bondibeach

This week, I read this poem to my team as my wish and promise to my 2026 self. Then my wonderful EA Laila bobs up with this Christmas gift along with a ‘slow-down snail’. I’m a very fortunate business owner.

I hope I’m never so insecure or poorly informed about a considered recommendation for restorative practices (or any other practice that I don’t market) that I need to reflexively belt out an hysterical word salad such as Bennett has here.

Very sad to read of the death of Ken Marslew. Less, but still sad, is the eulogising of him by a handful of media figures who selfishly feed the very hateful, vengeful conversations about crime that Ken’s restorative philosophy and outcomes are at odds with. Ken was a great man.

Reddit is about as poisonous, unregulated, cruel and utterly vile place I can imagine. They can get stuffed. I hope they find bigger inconveniences ahead.

Great fun serving about 900 snags for Dromana CC to the Dromana PS community at their Christmas Concert. Triggered some memories too!

There’s a decent chunk of me that wishes the social media delay applied to me.

Relying heavily on AI doesn’t only stifle critical thinking. It constrains creativity too. New evidence: People generate more original ideas when they consult AI sometimes, rather than extensively or rarely. Independent thought is a foundation of ingenuity.

Never thought I’d be referencing Simba in my work, but here we are. When boys can’t find real heroes, they turn to fantasy. Or to frauds. It’s time we gave them better role models.

The Real Schools leadership team together to recap 2025 and to scheme some schemes re supporting our partner schools even more inventively next year. They’re a frightfully clever bunch.

Some schools are easy targets for a merciless media. If you’re after a template for responding effectively with a positive narrative about your school, make sure you follow Kalgoorlie Boulder CSC, especially on Facebook. Kirstin Lahaye and Jeremy Bruce are smashing it.

How does a highly paid professional coach respond to an appallingly planned and executed 2-0 #Ashes2025 campaign? Drink some beer, take a couple of days off in Noosa, train less and stop trying so hard. What on earth are the Poms inflicting upon themselves with this lazy hubris?

Lovely little yearly getaway with my crew. This year down to Cowes. 🐧

Some moments truly deserve public profanity. So, with absolute clarity and intention I ask “What the actual fuck?!”