Teachers in primary schools deal with a wide range of issues every day. This book helps teachers to understand those issues, and how they fit in with recent government policies and initiatives. Each chapter looks at: relevant statements of policy or initiative how these statements fit into the context of specific schools the challenges they present for those involved in schools how schools can respond to these challenges learning across contexts Each chapter has been written by one practitioner and one academic and between them the chapters cover the whole range of Australian primary schools.