A cheaper day of professional development does not exist and look at this lineup!

Ballarat is the place to be on October 5! This lineup just gets better and better🙌 Sharing Best Practice David Morkunas Teaching Together

The What Works Series Brendan Lee

NEW POST: The Pitfalls of PD layingthefoundations.net/blog/the-pitfa…

What are you doing on the 5th of October? I know I'll be learning from the likes of Shane Pearson Charlotte Peverett (she/her) 💉💉🦠 💉💉🦠💉 @sachaeducation + Shay McInerney Amazing PL, great people & a low cost Sharing Best Practice

Randomized control trial of online learning among cadets at West Point Findings: Online instruction reduces a student’s final grade by 22 percent of a standard deviation. The impact is larger for males, at 27 percent of a standard deviation, compared to 9 percent of a standard

1.7k views for a free webinar on Direct Instruction youtube.com/live/p-qMhvdy4…

The WWS Maths Conferences have been so successful that we're taking the show on the road! Save the date - Saturday 23 November.

New post everyone!! Tell me what you think and what your experience has been with small group and rotations ! buff.ly/3TCLu2N Also hear bonus deep dive podcast content at the end of the post — it’s AI generated and it has blown my mind 🤯

Stories are natural. We have evolved to privilege them for reasons we could speculate about. Teach a kid the technicalities of reading — the unnatural bit — and they will read for pleasure provided no other sources of stories are available. That’s right, no devices. Maths is

This is such a good question. If the answer is a week, then we potentially waste 13 weeks of education over a child's schooling. Let's connect THROUGH content, instead of being focused on connecting BEFORE content.

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The Instructional Hierarchy. When we learn something new, we move through a series of predictable stages. We are most effective when our instruction matches the student’s current level of proficiency. Learn more from this helpful handout created by Laura Bross ONlit.org

Can anyone help me locate the raw data used to create this graph of Project Follow Through results? I think it's in Education as Experimentation: A planned variation model by Abt Associates but can't find a copy anywhere. Nat'l Institute DI Greg Ashman Direct Instruction Hub UK GoodtoGreatSchools Zach Groshell

A powerful letter by an incredible advocate. Thanks for sharing this Heidi Gregory - learning to read is a human right

Greg Ashman Im going to say this again and again but Autism and ADHD do not cause violence. We need to stop associating and excusing violence against anyone because the child has a neurodiversity. High expectations helps everyone, but mostly the child who learns violence is not the answer.

A great listen! I love the focus on students and their actions in informing what the teacher could work on. I used to have a coach who'd say, "If it's not an issue for the students, then it's not an issue for the teacher".

Three common pitfalls of Professional Development. Too often PD is: Irrelevant Impractical Isolated And then we wonder why our time & resources seem to have little impact. layingthefoundations.net/blog/the-pitfa…

Many teachers are working hard to implement Cold Call. Executed well, it's a thing of beauty, but increasingly I think schools should prioritise implementing a core set of all-student response techniques (e.g. Mini Whiteboards). Here's why I think they should come first. (1/10)

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