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The State School Teachers’ Union of WA has described last month’s funding announcement for public schools as a very positive first step.

More than a year has passed since the public launch of ChatGPT, representing Artificial Intelligence’s significant arrival in education.

Here at the SSTUWA, the Growth Team provides specialised support to new educator members. Here are the top five things we think every first year graduate needs to know.

The start of every year brings about a flurry of wanting change, new resolutions, new goals and new ideas.

On 23 January advice was sent out to all school members via eNews regarding Directives to SSTUWA members from the Executive Committee in relation to the 2023 EBA negotiations.

As the latest generation of Western Australian children start their education journey it is time to stop talking and start acting to address the problems facing public education. The announcement of a new funding agreement bringing $1.6 billion into WA public schools is a good start but there is more to do.

The Getting Organised 2024 pack will assist and support you to organise the SSTUWA school/college branch at your worksite and nominate for State Council Conference and union committees.

A new report calls for an end to the school funding crisis that has left public schools in every state and the NT underfunded while private schools are overfunded by hundreds of millions of dollars each year.

The 2023 Women’s Conference was held recently at the SSTUWA. This conference provided an opportunity for women educators to share, connect, learn and be inspired by each other.

According to the federal government’s 2023 Closing the Gap report, 34.3 per cent of Indigenous preschoolers were starting school developmentally on track, compared to almost 55 per cent of non-Indigenous Australian students as of 2021.

In June this year, SSTUWA coordinator of the schools organiser team, Natalie Swinbourn, joined 275 young leaders from Commonwealth countries in Banff, Canada for a life-changing experience.

Climate change education is increasingly seen as an essential part of schooling.

Have you noticed a difference to the packaging of your Western Teacher magazine? Introducing biobased, biodegradable and home-compostable bio-film – a greener alternative to petroleum-based mail wrap, supplied by local Perth company, Vanguard Media Group.

Australian unions have had a long history of supporting environmental issues.

The creation of Education International (EI) in 1993 was a critical advance for global education trade unionism.

You’re nearly there! Whether this has been your first year of teaching or your fifth, reaching this point in the school year is a massive achievement.

The Australian Education Union has welcomed the recruitment campaign launched by the Prime Minister in late October, but said a far greater investment in the teaching profession and public schools was needed to end chronic shortages and ensure teachers have the time and support to meet the needs of every child.

Last year, the SSTUWA wrote to the Teacher Registration Board of WA (TRBWA) outlining several member concerns regarding workload implications around providing new copies of documents already previously provided to the TRBWA with regards to renewal of registration.

Principals and school leaders are overwhelmingly reporting they are burnt out from workload, and more than half said in the SSTUWA State of our Schools Survey that they had concerns about their personal health and wellbeing.

Delegates at November 2023 State Council Conference voted unanimously to bestow SSTUWA life membership upon former president and long-time member, Pat Byrne. The following is Matt Jarman’s report to delegates.