The Queensland state schools dishing out the most suspensions
C4IE director, Professor Linda Graham comments on high suspension rates in Queensland state schools highlighting a range of factors influencing school disciplinary absence rates. Factors that influenced suspension rates included whether the school was located in a disadvantaged area, and changes in school school enrolments, and changes…
Fewer than one in five NSW teachers recently trained for kids with disabilities
Fewer than one in five of the state’s 165,000 accredited teachers have taken a course on students with a disability in the past three years, despite a huge increase in children with a diagnosis in the classroom and most teachers feeling unprepared by their university courses. C4IE director Professor Linda Graham discusses her recent…
South Australia's House of Assembly: Supporting students at risk of disengagement from schooling
C4IE director Professor Linda Graham led an independent‘Inquiry into suspensions, exclusions and expulsion processes in South Australian Government Schools’ along with C4IE members Mr Tony McCarthy, Dr Callula Killingly and Ms Haley Tancredi, and Associate Professor Shiralee Poed. The final report presents evidence, findings and 28…
The Project: The need for more support for vulnerable students
C4IE Director Professor Linda Graham was featured on The Project discussing why suspension is not always the best way to support behaviour for children with disabilities. Watch the full story here…
C4IE members and colleagues create an online Social Story and map to help navigate the experience at the QUT Art Museum
C4IE members Dr Sofia Mavropoulou, Associate Professor Beth Saggers, and colleague Ms Rachel Aberdeen, together with the QUT Art Museum created an online Social Story and map to help individuals requiring support to navigate the exhibition miffy & friends at QUT Art Museum. Find the Social Story and map here…
Disability Royal Commission Public Hearing 7
In October 2020, Professor Linda Graham and Associate Professor Shiralee Poed appeared to give expert witness testimony at the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability. You can now view the video recordings, transcripts and evidence from Public hearing 7: Barriers to accessing a safe…
Disability Royal Commission Report of Public hearing 2: Inclusive education in Queensland
The Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability has released Report of Public hearing 2: Inclusive education in Queensland (preliminary inquiry). This report presents the evidence presented from 4-7 November 2019 in Townsville. C4IE members Professor Suzanne Carrington and Dr Glenys Mann…
Design for Impact Summit 2020, imagining the Maroochydore City Centre in 2050
The Design for Impact Summit 2020 was a two day design thinking immersion experience for grade five students at Mathew Flinders Anglican College in collaboration with QUT’s Design Lab’s and C4IE member Dr Natalie Wright. View the Design for Impact Summit 2020 program, read more here or watch this news story on WIN news Sunshine…
Beginner teachers are NOT under prepared and NOT bad at managing behaviour. Here’s the evidence
A newly published blog on the AARE EduResearch Matters Blog by Professor Linda Graham, Associate Professor Sonia White and Professor Robert Pianta discusses that there have been extensive reforms made to initial teacher education despite limited evidence to support the claims that beginning teachers are less competent than experienced…
Queensland study reveals beginning teachers perform just as well as their colleagues
A new study conducted by Professor Linda Graham has found that there is no evidence that graduate teachers performed at a lower quality than those with more than five years of experience despite this group being constantly under scrutiny. Read the full article in the Courier Mail…