Welcome to the second issue of AEL for 2024. We’ve embarked on a year that has been both inspiring and demanding, with education taking centre stage at both state and national levels. The landscape is rife with challenges, from issues of equity and equality, funding, global testing, to the integration of AI and rapid technological changes, managing societal expectations, and the task of adapting and implementing curriculum reforms.
By any criteria, learning communities are complex ecosystems. In his book The Checklist Manifesto , Atul Gawande, an American surgeon and writer, states, “The volume and complexity of what we know has exceeded our ability ...