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You make two solid points here, Michael, including (1) a Master’s degree itself is weakly correlated to #TeacherExcellence and (2) paying teachers more overall would widen and deepen the pool of talented candidates. If I were starting my physics teaching career today, rather than 30 years ago, I would be able to command a near 6-figure salary in select parts of the country and that figure will only increase in the near term. One key point to add here regards the leaders with whom teachers work. Teachers are attracted to schools with world-class leadership…instructionally, organizationally, developmentally, etc. Teachers leave education due to factors that #SchoolLeadership directly controls. If we increase #PrincipalExcellence we will do more to improve the teacher pipeline than exorbitant raises ever could. s4e.com

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Does anyone else get sick of seeing the NSW Government talk about helping people in need in the context of Education while they're currently in the process of further entrenching segregation in the Waratah State? This year, over 200 new support units were announced in NSW, and this was announced as some kind of 'win'. But these are not new classrooms. They're not new demountables. They didn't announce new resources. 200 new support units means that NSW is going to take Disabled students who are already in mainstream classes and move them into segregated settings. This is not a win. This is a step back toward the dark ages. It is, almost certainly, a decision that would have arisen from liaison with the NSW Teacher's Federation, whose policy position on Disability is - and has long been - that Disabled students are best kept in 'special' schools and separate classes. There are deep roots here that go all the way back to Purvis v NSW and beyond. While on one level, we understand at The ANPA that resource scarcity is a strong driver of hostile and fearful attitudes toward Disabled students among burnt-out, under-resourced teachers working in public schools sucked dry of funding by private schools (enjoy those gymnasiums and swimming pools on the public docket, St. Richies) - We also just kind of don't get it. See, we're all union thugs, too, from way back. And we know that shared struggle is the best struggle. Working together, we get more done, and the star of the Disability rights movement has risen. It is not going to descend any time soon. If I were a strategic unionist right now in Education, I'd see Disability rights activists as an opportunity, not my enemy: Because what do we Disability justice bandits screech for more of in education? Funding. Lots of it. Now. And the single biggest kick up the arse the DOE has had in some time has been the Disability Royal Commission which specifically suggested increased funding. Massively increased funding. Our kids are probably the reason that public education will *eventually* be adequately funded. They will also probably be the reason that conditions will improve and ratios will drop. You need a lot more money and staff to run an inclusive school. That is why we keep yelling FUND PUBLIC EDUCATION. Ain't nothing like a common goal, is there? Food for thought, eh. #UnionThugs #ThereIsPowerInAUnion #InclusiveEducation #SegregationIsNotTheAnswer #FundingForInclusion #NoNewSupportUnits #NSWEducation #NSWSchools #DisabilityJustice

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Why we haven’t doubled in profit? 👀 Wow Future Stars Coaching LTD this photo popped up on our socials from 6 years ago. Lovely to see some old & familiar faces that helped us along our way on our 16 year journey from myself and a bag of balls on Day 1 🙏🏼 We’ve doubled in size since this photo, both in amount of staff and turnover. But we haven’t in Profit 😢 Here are some of the reasons why: ✅ We’ve firstly made it a career for our coaches and pay the most in our industry with a career pathway through our continuous growth. ✅ We’ve gone form 1 Coach Development Manager to now having 8. ✅ We now have a lead manager for every programme we deliver. ✅ The office team has doubled in size based on the amount of children we now work with to appease our customers needs. ✅ We’ve bought in an operations director and commercial director with huge experience. ✅ We’ve spent 2 years investing in our Franchsie offering and bought in someone to lead this. ✅ We’ve invested in a brand new bespoke Website & Booking System that has so far taken 18 months to develop and keep developing. I couldn’t be prouder of what we’ve all achieved over the years and continually standing out and being recognised by schools and parents for our quality and constant desire to learn and develop. You need good people to make a great organisation and that journey doesn’t end, I’m always recruiting even if we don’t have a current position, we will. We’ve created all of this so our franchisees can flourish and in year 1 have a profitable business using all our expertise at HQ. What a ride we’ve been on so far and I’ve never been more engaged or passionate to take this to the next level. We now have everything and everybody in the right places, however no doubt that will have developed again in the next 6 years ❤️