Calling all educators! Join Ochre Education's webinar tomorrow with Co-CEO Reid Smith to learn about adapting lesson resources and intervention supports for your classroom's unique needs. Don't miss out on valuable insights! Register now: bit.ly/3UEiJnh #EducationWebinar

This is a big deal: Lucy Crehan is asking for Curriculum for Wales to be reviewed to reduce the ambiguity in its curriculum statements and to give greater clarity on the knowledge learners need.

Summary of my presentation at the Directors of Improvement conference today.

(Strap in, it's a bit of a beast)

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We are very pleased to announce the release of our first Novel Studies unit, Blueback.

These Novel Studies are our first subscription resources, and are inspired by the brilliant Reading Reconsidered units. Find out more here:

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Stoked to be working with amazing schools across the country as part of the #PlaybookProject24

Pumped to be jumping in to #PlaybookProject24 with Bron Ryrie Jones
Excited for how codifying our practice can benefit the students & teachers at Campbells Creek PS including Guildford Campus

Recent discussions remind me of a great piece written by Richard Elmore, and this great line:

“..people demonstrate an amazingly resilient capacity to relabel their existing practices with whatever ideas are currently in vogue.”

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We are very pleased to release the last of the Term 2 materials to support the teaching of Year 7 and 8 Maths.

These materials, developed as part of our partnership with National Catholic Education , are aligned to AC9, VC2.0 and the NSW Syllabus.

This week on #TDaPE , Christopher Such and the wonderful Lyn Stone join me for a thorough exploration of how we can provide all pupils with the gift of spelling.

✅ The English writing system
✅ Morphology
✅ Spelling patterns

Apple: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/thi…

Next tip for adjusting Ochre materials to your context:

MasterChef needs more judges.

Looking forward to presenting my keynote at Sharing Best Practice Riverina this Saturday! So many great presenters including educational linguist and author Lyn Stone, SLP and PhOrMeS author Shane Pearson, SOLAR lab's Eamon Charles, educational consultant Julie Scali,

There’s been some great feedback on this ‘lecture’ on comprehension, so I’m retweeting it again for the people in the back.

Join me on May 4th!

All of the materials produced as part of our English partnership with Catholic Education Archdiocese Canberra & Goulburn are adaptable to your context.

Here is another tip for those looking to adjust the lessons:

Meet Jenny Cowburn, heart-and-soul Principal of St Leonards PS. She retires tomorrow, after 50 years(!) in public education. Today, she still wanted to be fully involved in our responsive teaching work, including coming to all teacher observations/feedback. What a gem. Victorian Department of Education

Looking for ways you can adjust our Years 3-6 English novel studies for your classroom?

Over the next few days we will provide some tips, starting with this corker:

I’m fed up with people pointing out all the mistakes in my poetry so I’ve written them this poem; it’s called ‘Pedant’s’.

New post: Thinking about conceptual understanding.

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Following on from reading 𝐁𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐲 𝐆𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐤 today.

‘Attention is the currency of learning’ - ⁦Daisy Christodoulou⁩ #rEDCam24