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    What Australia can learn from Finland about change in schools
    • Oct 11, 2021
    • 2 min

    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...
    Two things you can do in Term 4 for literacy success next year
    • 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,...
    Literacy means organisational change
    • 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...
    Don't let this limit the effectiveness of whole school literacy
    • 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...
    Setting up the pillars for a whole-school literacy program
    • 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...
    Where do we start with disciplinary literacy?
    • 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...

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