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S2E2 The Reading Diet: Prose, Patience, and Progress
What your students read matters just as much as how much
Feb 3
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Season Two, Episode 1: Starting right
Watch now | Classroom skills and routines to create the conditions for learning from Day One
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Feb 3
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S2E1 Routines to start your year
A discussion of previous posts to help your start of term planning
Jan 5
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Episode 7: How to avoid just teaching yourself
Explicit direct instruction, student participation, and learning that lasts
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Sep 22, 2025
Making everyday excellence ‘routine’
by guest contributor, Sara Dower
Jun 15, 2025
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Enhanced Learning Environments: A Personal Journey
by Guest Contributor, Rachel Holden
May 30, 2025
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From Falling Behind to Moving Ahead: A Case for Explicit, Inclusive Instruction
The content of this post was originally published by the Code Read Dyslexia Network on 14 February 2025.
May 12, 2025
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Episode 1: From CfU to CfQ
Listen now | Checking for Quality of Student Responses
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May 5, 2025
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Making teachers’ lives easier: Reframing efficiency part 1
Rethinking Efficiency in Education
Apr 3, 2025
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Apr 1, 2025
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Is 'Questioning the Author' older than we think?
Discover how Principal, Francis Matisi engaged EAL students with The Hobbit, using shared reading, pauses, and discussion to build comprehension…
Mar 26, 2025
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Some models are useful
Teachers are bombarded with information about best practice, but a clear model could help cut through the noise.
Oct 14, 2024
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Dr Nathaniel Swain
Classroom Teacher, Instructional Coach, Researcher at La Trobe School of Education, PhD in Education — #science #literacy #language #humanities #arts Founder - @thinkforwardedu, SLP, Linguist
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