Lately, I have been walking through a kind of cathedral not built by hands but by roots and rivers. In Mossman Gorge I pressed my palm against the trunk of an old tree, and for a moment it felt like the earth was breathing back to me. The silence there was not empty, it was alive, humming through bark, stone and stream.

Participating in the Teaching Excellence Program has been a transformative professional experience, offering me valuable networking opportunities and access to innovative strategies to refine the way I design learning for students. The discipline sessions gave me the time and space to consider not only what I teach in mathematics, but why and how I teach it.