Congrats to the heritage enthusiasts among us in the ACT.

What is phonics and why is it used to teach reading? theconversation.com/what-is-phonic… Our piece in The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand with Rauno Parrila & Anne Castles - moved to @annecastles.bsky.social at Australian Centre for the Advancement of Literacy Australian Literacy Clinic

Behind all our new Liberal Democrat Members of Parliament are an army of unsung heroes that made this happen. 5 years ago we had the worst election in living memory, today we wake up to the best result in a century. I’m so proud of every single person who made positive change

A great result! Congratulations to my friend Paul Kohler🔶MP for Wimbledon and the excellent campaign team that has worked so hard in the seat for years to make this win possible.

ANU Professor Nicholas Biddle is advertising for a randomista (at Level B: Research Fellow). Fabulous opportunity. Details here: jobs.anu.edu.au/jobs/research-…

Nice work Greater Canberra! Looking forward to the discussion.

It's tonight Huong Le come and join us for our second session with Belinda Melvin talking abt her literacy intervention at Mt Rowan Secondary College, & Reid Smith sharing abt Ochre Education and the full range of ready available resources for secondary. Link forms.office.com/r/5kni3k4zdd

Journal access favour: can anyone ping me a copy of this article? AERO subs are not working for it: bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journals/… The response piece would also be handy if I can push my luck: bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journals/…

Our survey on primary school mathematics closes in five days. 🧑‍🏫 If you’re a primary school teacher or principal, we’d love for you to take part in the anonymous, 10-minute survey here: buff.ly/4ckq5mi

A more devastating critique against economists would be how infrequent they actually read data collection manuals of the raw data they use.

Half-way through and really enjoying this one despite not knowing a thing about soccer! And a unique pleasure to see Russ Roberts (who I've listened to since 2007) interview someone who I've been reading & following for some time too (since 7 myths came out at least).

Looking to expand our amazing team at Australian Education Research Organisation (AERO)! If you have a keen eye for critically appraising research (especially in making judgements on how much weight to place on causal claims) and using it to inform policy, this role may be of interest. linkedin.com/jobs/view/4146…

If you haven’t signed up for our free webinar on classroom management, there’s still time! Join us tomorrow (27 February) at 7.30 pm (AEDT). Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Primary educators 👋🏻 I am interviewing teachers for a research project aimed at understanding how teachers learn from each other in the workplace. But my sample is currently very secondary heavy… Could you (please!) spare me an hour of your time this week or next? Thanks!

“I’m going to govern in econometrics”. Might or might not happen, but that’s the maximum likelihood.

Almost as loveably econ-nerdy as when Andrew Leigh asked the staff at the Australian Bureau of Statistics not to "hold it against me that you have a Stata user as your Assistant Minister". Though uttering this at a campaign event when you're the aspirational PM is a step-up in a different way!

Calling all teachers in Australian schools. Do you work in an Australian school? Are you teaching any students with intellectual disabilities? If so, please consider completing our survey. redcap.link/0992thw7 Pamela Snow Tanya Anne Serry PhD

Fascinating read. I agree with it all but unfortunately can't see much of a chance of this shift happening while so many political parties take economic growth as a given (or even see it as a thing to be wary of).

Some fantastic research from e61 Institute on teacher recruitment and retention out today. First time (to my knowledge) anyone has used administrative data to answer key questions about the teacher workforce nationally.