Australia has one of the worst deforestation rates in the developed world. We’re calling on the big supermarkets to end deforestation in their supply chains. acf.to/3LOQs8t #auspol

“Melancholy is a writer’s sickness. You have to be kind of sad. Sadness is the groundbase of a novel. It plumbs different depths. It creates experiences that aren’t particularly real but are felt. Why do we write? We sit in a room alone.” – Brian Castro #liminalfestival

'If you’re a registered teacher currently teaching in Australia, you can get involved!' An enticing call for participants in 2025 - click through to Tom's post on AARE blog for more info.

"By backflipping on the Victorian government’s commitment to raise the minimum age of criminal responsibility from 10 to 14 by 2027, Allan has betrayed Victorian children." #raisetheage!

Hillary Clinton absolutely NAILED the assignment tonight. Watch her entire full speech. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Congratulations to this year’s National Schools Poetry Award winner, Chantelle Xiong, and to all the finalists. Read their poems and Joan Fleming’s judge’s report: schoolspoetryaward.co.nz #nzpoetryday

We've received almost 100 submissions for this research, but still want to reach as many teachers as possible. Please share with any colleagues who may have a story to tell. Privacy and anonymity protected. Survey link: monash.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3Q…

here is mine and @navangovender1's manifesto for an anti-racist English education in the UK, which probes how schools might become critical sites for radically reimagining and reinventing language and literacy education 🔓 doi.org/10.1080/042504…

remove 👏 all 👏 references 👏 to 👏 standard 👏 english 👏 in 👏 your 👏 assessment 👏 criteria

'The educator has the duty of not being neutral'. Paulo Freire.

“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“I have resisted the term sociolinguistics for many years, since it implies that there can be a successful linguistic theory or practice which is not social.” ~ William Labov (1927–2024) 1/5 #sociolinguistics #linguistics #dialects #accents #AAVE #BlackEnglish #NYC

Finished David Marr’s brilliant work of frontier history! Anyone interested in Australian history will admire Marr’s achievement! blackincbooks.com.au/books/killing-…

Every minute is a chance to turn it all around

In ⁦Overland Journal⁩ 256 is my farewell speech as poetry editor, plus a poem ‘What Size is My Baby Poem’:

this is what ‘misbehaviour’ sounds like in the discipline policies of academies from the 34 largest multi-academy trusts in England doi.org/10.1080/096202…

Yes, we support academic freedom and free speech, but not without limits. For the college, your right to free speech ends where the college budget begins. So if your speech affects federal returned indirect or state appropriations, we’ll need you to shut up.