31 August 2017

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Papal Trip To Colombia Will Be Balancing Justice And Mercy

When Pope Francis lands in Colombia in September, he will encounter a population that is still torn over a peace deal ending a bloody 50-year war between the government and rebel guerilla forces. Experts and local Catholic leaders say the Sept. 6-11 visit will be a new test for Francis, who has stressed God’s mercy strongly in his papacy. While the pope has supported the peace deal, half of Colombian society has not, arguing that more justice is needed for the victims of the conflict before it can come to a merciful end.

“It will be a big challenge for the pope to be in Colombia because Colombia is a country that is divided,” said Atlanta Auxiliary Bishop Luis Zarama. Zarama, set to be installed as bishop of Raleigh, North Carolina, on Aug. 29, emigrated to the U.S. from Colombia in the 1990s. He described as near-total the split in his home country over a deal ending a war that has claimed an estimated 220,000 lives and displaced millions. Colombian society, he said, is basically rent in half.

Guatemala Bishops Condemn President's Firing Of Anti-Corruption Official

Guatemala's bishops criticized the country's president for expelling an international anti-corruption commissioner. They also called for public protests to remain peaceful, for politicians to act in the national interest and for the president to obey a court order against his actions. The bishops expressed "their conviction that the struggle against corruption and impunity constitutes a need that cannot be put off and an urgent task for the Guatemalan state," said an Aug. 27 statement from the Guatemala bishops' conference. "Weakening the CICIG" -- the International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala — favors, in the name of supposed sovereignty, that impunity and corrupt individuals emerge as the beneficiaries," read the statement, signed by Bishop Gonzalo de Villa Vasquez of Solola-Chimaltenango, president of the bishops' conference.

The New Master of Education

At the Melbourne Graduate School of Education, we have recently launched our brand new Master of Education. Our course provides the perfect platform for honing your expertise in education, enhancing your classroom practice, or advancing your leadership potential.

In 2018, our Master of Education will become a 200 credit point coursework degree that offers a flexible structure, allowing you to create your own unique masters to prepare you for the next stage of your career. There is also a 100 credit point advanced standing entry option available to eligible applicants.

ADAM VOIGHT FREE WBINAR: Getting on the Same Page as Parents

One of the biggest challenges faced by schools these days is to get on the same page as their parents.

Of course, that sounds like quite a simple task when we reduce it down to a neat little metaphor. It’s another to actually write that page, to communicate it so that people hear it and then to have them step into agreement rather than argument about the details on the page.

As a former Principal and now CEO of Real Schools, Adam has become passionate about each school knowing the right strategies and right means for getting the right messages to parents so that they can be heard and understood. Only then can we get our parents defaulting into partnership with us, rather than into the adversarial relationship we sometimes find ourselves in.

There’s a lot to take into account, but more than anything it’s about delivering and communicating about the big stuff. While many things have changed in the ways that today’s schools look and run – technology for a start! – the purpose for which parents send their kids to school hasn’t shifted a great deal. They send them in the hope that:

1. They’ll get a great education and learn to love learning.
2. We’ll work with them on turning them into good citizens.

All of this is why I’ll be running a free webinar for Teachers and School Leaders titled “21st Century Approaches to Home-School Communication” on Thursday 14th September 2017 at 3.30pm AEST.

1-2-3 Magic® & Emotion Coaching in the Classroom

ONE-DAY PROFESSIONAL TRAINING

NEW – Scheduled courses in Brisbane and Sydney.

123 Magic & Emotion Coaching in the Classroom is a flexible and consistent whole school approach teaching self-regulation to effectively manage difficult and disruptive behaviour. Teachers will learn how to help students develop their emotional brakes through Emotion Coaching, showing them how to use empathy to soothe emotions.

Three primary principals appear in the video below talking about their experience of implementing the 123 Magic & Emotion Coaching in the Classroom program into their school. This behaviour management approach trains teachers how to set limits, help the children develop self-regulation, gives teachers more time teaching and lessens the stress in the classroom.

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