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Plain Talk New Orleans – Research and Practice
Excited attendees in the Main Ballroom March 2023’s Plain Talk 28th Annual Conference in New Orleans was a fantastic opportunity for me to immerse myself


Vale, Sir Jim Rose
Vale Sir Jim Rose, whose life’s work contributed to the betterment of teaching reading and consequently children’s lives worldwide. He was the author of the


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


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


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


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