My beautiful 14 month-old fully qualified therapy dog is at school most days. S’s reading to her isn’t what’s improving our reading results. It’s teachers knowing the SoR/SoL and applying that knowledge in their classrooms.

This sums up my job. Have worked most of the hols on OHS, admin, finance and school review. Also put this image on staff bulletin to thank ES who feeds school chooks all holidays. Sending list of OHS modules to staff and the giant chook popped up 😂🐓. This is my life…

First day Term 3. Quality teaching, based on routines and expectations. Kids happy and learning. I reflected on literacy data, ⬆️for our kids, all based on post-uni PD. I walked around asking myself ‘where did we learn to implement this? Or this?’ Please listen. ITE needs reform.

So this happened! THANKYOU VPA and Andrew Dalgleish Two Prins from Ballarat ❄️are coming west next year to see you Mark McClements @RayBoyd007 Serpentine Primary School We can’t wait to learn from you guys! I’ll be in touch! ✈️☀️

When PS-HS partnership come into action, student outcomes shine! Alice Jury and Belinda Melvin & the literacy team at Mount Rowan SC sharing their 18 month journey w a focus on reading fluency for Yrs 7-8 ss, based on SoR. DIBELS data don't lie! Sharing Best Practice Sue Knight

2023 Yr 2 student after almost 4 terms of Structured Literacy. First sample end of 2022 when they arrived from a Balanced Literacy school. ‘Frog’ sample is today. Second Year graduate teacher. T and S are VERY proud. Still a long way to go, but 🤩. Literacy is a human right ❤️

Need book recommendations for diverse group of network Principals. Not too dense - we want everyone to read it! Hit me with suggestions…. Reid Smith Emina McLean Mark McClements @RayBoyd007 School improvement, leadership…

It’s school holidays in Vic, Aust. and I’m at the beach but I can’t stop reading this book Karin Chenoweth Every educational leader needs a copy. Can’t recommend it highly enough. THANKYOU

Anyone else noticed F students less ‘school ready?’ Not just this year but increasingly so each year? Lockdowns but also screen use? I rarely see a 2 year old without their parents phone in their hand in the stroller. I need to get local kinder teachers together…we need to chat!

Took your advice Emina McLean Ballarat City Network prins all getting a copy of Leverage Leadership 2.0 at our first meeting on Feb 14th. Step 1: Data-driven Instruction (Ch 1) and Student Culture (Ch 5). Let’s see where it takes us! Excited is an understatement 🌟

Interested in Essential Assessment. Widely used in Vic g’ment schools. I’ve never used it - thoughts? James Dobson Shay McInerney

I wonder if this study will ever be released?

How could you resist this team, working on their playbook after school in the last week of this marathon Term 2? Still smiling! They definitely deserve a complimentary workshop 😉 #AraratWest 🙌 #PlaybookProject24

Watching the Victorian Prins Conference online. Jenny Donovan nailing it! This is music to my ears. Project Follow Through, what is and isn’t explicit teaching, MTSS. Victoria is on the right track. Bravo Ben Carroll 🙌🙌🙌

The announcement of Jacquie Burrows as Victorian Department of Education Primary Principal of the Year is a watershed moment. The transformative work implementing SL alongside strong wellbeing supports finally recognised. So many of us learnt from you Jacquie. A recognition so well deserved 🙌🌟🙌🌟🙌

1 - Hoping some clever people can help with a question about reading fluency and text selection, particularly for Prep/Year One readers.

2 - At what point do you begin to move students away from reading strictly decodable texts and onto more ‘regular’ (or less phonically controlled) texts? Is there a certain set of prerequisite skills you’d want to see a student demonstrating?

3 - Or do you just gradually provide texts with a bigger variety of sounds/letter combinations over say, a term, and ideally students’ decoding skills will keep up with this? Appreciate people’s thoughts 🙂

My very talented teacher friend Kelsie George just posted some wonderings about moving students off decodable texts. It’s a Q many T’s grapple with. Expert responses appreciated!

Accessing high quality PD is so hard for regional schools. 5 superstar teachers from Ararat West travelled to Melb today to learn about responsive teaching thanks to the legend Bron Ryrie Jones Can we get her here in person? 🙏 We are in the draw! #responsiveteaching25 Go West!