The Foundation for Learning and Literacy is concerned with the role literacy plays in ensuring our children become compassionate, confident, competent and creative citizens in an increasingly complex world.
Our aim is to support teachers, early childhood educators, parents and caregivers with tools that empower them to work with kids to build joy and confidence in reading and writing.
Our resources are also useful to the broader community, including educational policymakers, politicians, business leaders, and the media.
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May 2026 Newsletter
News and updates from the Foundation for Learning and Literacy and our Partners.
The focus for this e-newsletter is on the Advocacy work undertaken by the Foundation, and in particular:
Touchstone 1: A fair and equitable society depends upon every citizen being able to speak, listen critically with confidence, read and write.
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Learning and Literacy News
Read the latest news on Learning and Literacy, compiled by the Foundation team:
Can social robots lend a hand with children’s reading?
The Educator 1 December, 2025 Hitting early literacy milestones matters, and the first years of primary school are often when teachers spot students who need a little extra support. New research led by Associate Professor Nathan Caruana at Flinders University, working…
National AI Plan announced
The Educator by Brett Henebery 2nd December, 2025 The Federal Government has unveiled a long-awaited national plan to boost Australia’s competitiveness in the rapidly expanding AI sector while putting safeguards in place to protect the public. The National AI Plan,…
Building a Classroom Culture That Lasts
ASCD December 2, 2025 Catherine Cottingham Teachers spend weeks planning for the first days of school— preparing classroom environments, labeling cubbies, rehearsing arrival routines, and dreaming up community-building activities. Then the students arrive….
The Australian school spearheading an Indigenous language revival
The Guardian Decmber 2, 2025 by Ella Archibald-Binge, photographs by Carly Earl There are several words for “morning” in the Gumbaynggirr language but bambuuda is Anne-Marie Briggs’ favourite. Drawn from bamburr, meaning soft and gentle, it speaks to the quiet moments…
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The Foundation for Learning and Literacy regularly partners with other professional associations to advocate for the importance of literature in our lives and in literacy learning.
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