School News May 27, 2025 New research from a team led by Professor Alyson Simpson and Associate Professor Wayne Cotton at the University of Sydney and Dr Rachel White at Western Sydney University (WSU) is reshaping the way we understand teacher quality, highlighting...
School News by June 2025 Sarah Davison The school library has long been a place of discovery, reflection, & learning. But as educational needs change, so must our learning spaces. Today’s school libraries are not static, silent rooms filled only with shelves and...
ASCD by James Gurney June 18, 2025 To prepare students for a rapidly evolving workforce, our newest teachers have to be confident in their AI knowledge and skills. Read here
In episode 150 Hiebert continues her revolutionary approach, distinguishing between narrative and informational text vocabulary, explaining how stories use varied words for familiar concepts while informational texts introduce new conceptual knowledge. She...
The Next Generation: Strength, Vision & Legacy As we enter 2025, NAIDOC Week marks a powerful milestone: 50 years of honoring and elevating Indigenous voices, culture, and resilience. The 2025 theme, “The Next Generation: Strength, Vision &...
“NAPLAN testing is on right now. Researchers at Charles Darwin University (CDU) critically examined NAPLAN’s narrative marking guide. We developed an alternative approach – Reading for Emotion – that redefines literacy assessment. Instead...
This blog post reports on the findings from a survey conducted by Primary English Teaching Association Australia (PETAA). Responses were received from 500 educators working in primary English across systems, sectors and contexts. Several findings are shared in the...
“Text selection plays an important role in the teaching of Reading (and Writing) and the choices teachers make are determined by: knowledge of the reading process, instructional practices and available texts, students’ needs and interests, and the purpose for...
“It’s time to recognise teachers as creative designers of learning and as frontline leaders for a better world. We need to trust them with the work they’re best placed to do – teaching first-class humans, not preparing second-class robots.” Reference:...
“About one quarter of Australian school students are learning English as an additional language or dialect. This means their first language or dialect is something other than English and they need extra support to develop proficiency in what we...
