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The Home-Learning/Literacy Myth
If parental input is driving your system’s success, there’s something wrong with your system Chilli was a 9 year old boy who couldn’t read or write. He’d been issued with
The Culture that Kills Pt2: Student Blaming
Recently, in my pre-breakfast glance at social media and emails that have come in overnight, I happened to catch a post on the Levelled Literacy Intervention for Teachers Facebook page
Tutor Puppy-Farms: Find the right tree to bark up
Tutor Puppy-Farms: Find the right tree to bark up It’s true that many children have missed out on vital parts of their education over the last two years. My own
The Culture that Kills
It’s been a bit of a tough week for literacy giants Fountas and Pinnell. Firstly their products were reviewed by edreports.org and found to be wanting. That’s a pretty damning
Sounds about Right
I keep getting drawn into situations where I feel a need to defend my work. That’s what you get when you say things publicly, I guess. I don’t
Dysteachia: A preventable disorder
Yesterday I spent the whole day with 5 leaders from a K-12 school north of Sydney. Their incredibly supportive principal ducked in from time to time whilst doing everything else