Marian Wright

Marian Wright is an educator, strategist, and design partner working with schools to design schooling that makes sense for humans, systems, and the future. In 2026, she will launch Coherence Co-Lab, a strategy and design consultancy aimed at helping schools create systems that are responsive to the future and coherent and connected in the present

A year 7 student smiles proudly in front of their project investigating what a Standards Engineer does. They are sitting at a table in a colourful classroom

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What do we do while we wait for policy to catch up? We lead anyway.

Marian Wright: Oct 1, 2025 12:00:00 PM

Across Australia, young people sit in classrooms and wonder what their futures might hold. Marian Wright digs deep into what ACARA's decision about Work Studies and the curriculum really means in classrooms.

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