Reflections from Harvard – Emerging Leader Scholarship
I was most fortunate to study the ‘Emerging Leaders’ program at the Harvard Kennedy School Executive Education in Boston, November this year (2019). It was an intensive week of leadership learning, amidst the splendour of [...]
Teacher gains greater understanding of impact of trauma
Sandra Chambers is the 2019 Teachers Health scholarship recipient. This remarkable teacher is based at Wiluna Remote School in Western Australia. "I have been able to attend the Trauma Aware Schools Conference in Brisbane, and [...]
Teachers Scholarship to study music education in Salzburg
I have recently returned from the Orff International Summer School in Salzburg, Austria. I would like to take this opportunity to whole heartedly thank The First State Super and the Public Education Foundation for affording [...]
Play-based learning leads Sascha to Finland
Winning the 2018 First State Teacher’s Scholarship has provided me with the opportunity to study the Finnish Early Childhood Education system in great depth. I travelled to Finland on September 17th, for three weeks and [...]
Foreign meeting offers a new perspective
Sydney Morning Herald: 14 September 2018 As a stand-out leader in the state education system, Jenny Parrett was recently chosen to learn from the best at Harvard University’s Graduate School of education. Parrett, principal of James [...]
Rockingham Beach Primary School principal goes Ivy League
2 September 2017: Stefanie Balogh, The Australian --- It’s undoubtedly a long way from Perth’s suburban outskirts to the lecture halls of one of the world’s centres of learning excellence, Harvard. As many do, Rockingham [...]
