Oz Lit Teacher Blog
A quick look at the Australian calendar will tell you that the month of March is all about celebrating, commemorating, and discussing fabulous women.
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In my recent blog post on effective writing conferences, I discussed the idea of stripping these now complex meetings back to their original roots...
There are a lot of āphā words involved in teaching reading, but unfortunately too many of us were never exposed to them in our university degrees....
Iām often asked for tips on how to engage in effective writing conferences with students.
Conferring with writers can feel a bit overwhelmin...
Often when schools want to work on improving their studentsā growth in writing they start by changing their teaching. (āSomething isnāt working- l...
Last week on the blog, I reshared a post I wrote about self-care for teachers and leaders. It was inspired by a presentation I'd attended by minds...
Itās been a while since Iāve had an author in my interview chair, so I was very excited when award-winning, Sydney based writer, Victoria Mackinla...
The admiring lens is an incredibly powerful tool to use in the writing classroom. The thing is, us teachers need to be constantlyĀ reminded of its
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In last weekās blog on effective Literacy leadership, I introduced 2 key mindset traps that literacy leaders can fall into at this time of year.
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Around this time last year, I wrote a blog post titled ā3 common change leadership mistakes in schoolsā. Iād been inspired by the sight of the blo...
