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...
- Oct 6, 2021
- 1 min
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, 2021
- 2 min
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...
- Oct 2, 2021
- 2 min
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, 2021
- 4 min
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...
- Aug 19, 2021
- 3 min
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...