by Rosie Martin | Jun 24, 2022 | Blog, Social Justice, Speech Pathology
I did a year of a general science degree before I studied speech pathology. In the unit on botany, we covered basidiomycetes (aka fungi). I learned that ‘mycelium’ is part of mushroom and toadstool anatomy. It’s a fine structure like a mass of threads that spreads out...
by Rosie Martin | Mar 29, 2022 | Blog, Social Justice, Speech Pathology
There has never been a time in history in which we have had both the tools of instruction relevant to all learners together with the social will to bring 100% literacy to all learners. Talking about this possibility and potential with excitement and hope is the...
by Rosie Martin | Jan 21, 2022 | Blog, Social Justice, Speech Pathology
The five-year-old who lives at my house came bowling up the hill at me clutching one of his eight-week-old chickens. “Grand!” he shouted (he calls me ‘Grand’). “This is Charlie. She’s the most imperious of our chickens.” Delighted with this unexpected and rather...
by Rosie Martin | Sep 26, 2021 | Blog, Social Justice, Speech Pathology
There has never been a time in Australia’s history at which everybody could read and write. Think about it. Before the 20th Century wars, universal education was haphazard. It was the domain primarily of the privileged. Things continued that way during the 1940s and...
by Rosie Martin | Aug 25, 2021 | Blog, Events, Social Justice
Grace and I are presenting a cycle of powerful, seasonal, leadership retreats focused on the courage to create change. In late August we focused on spring, using metaphors that explored how that which is nascent within us, can be supported to burst forth. On the 3rd,...
by Rosie Martin | Jul 9, 2021 | Blog, Kindness, Social Justice
Brilliant sky, searing sun and red horizon. Glittering water, floral profusion, waterbirds, and fish. These are both the authentic desert. I started school in the arid and isolated little town of Woomera in South Australia. While living there, my dad built a boat....
