What Australia can learn from Finland about change in schools
The secret of school reform with implications for whole-school literacy This is Pasi Sahlberg. Professor of Education Policy at UNSW, and...
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Oct 6, 20211 min read
Two things you can do in Term 4 for literacy success next year
Do these two things now to set up for success Term 4 is a crazy time. Reports, marking, farewells. While you're finishing off the year,...
Oct 2, 20212 min read
Literacy means organisational change
Re-culturing for literacy improvement in secondary schools If there's one thing that I know for sure, it is that anything you do with...
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Don't let this limit the effectiveness of whole school literacy
Beware of the implementation dip As a leader of literacy, you know that literacy improvement involves change. How many times have you...
Aug 19, 20214 min read
Setting up the pillars for a whole-school literacy program
Before starting a literacy program, there are six pillars which secondary schools need to have in place. In secondary schools, we have to...
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Where do we start with disciplinary literacy?
Map the literacy demands of subject area assessment tasks If you're keen to explore the literacy demands of your subject, I have found a...
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