Read for your life! 📘 And what better way to do so than with Australian Children's Laureate author Ursula Dubosarsky's imagined world of Thea and the mysterious Night Parrot in our NEW publication TALES OF ALL KINDS: THE WORLD OF URSULA DUBOSARSKY! Children's Laureate Foundation

Fantastic work by a fantastic teacher-librarian and Teachers Federation member Kayla Frost. All students deserve a library like this which is why Federation is campaigning to maintain qualified specialist teacher position in the staffing entitlement for every NSW public school!

Scan’s October issue is here! Learn about cultural competency. Explore the different ways schools cater for students with #disability in mainstream classrooms. And be inspired by rich ideas for teaching #printmaking in #visualarts! education.nsw.gov.au/teaching-and-l… #edchat #k12 #aussieED

Here’s one to share with your #visualarts colleagues! This month, Helen Yip offers an inspiring treasury of resources & practical ideas for teaching #printmaking processes in Stages 4-6: ‘SPaRK – The Printmaking Ideas Book’ education.nsw.gov.au/teaching-and-l… VADEA

The complexity of the role of a teacher librarian is both exhausting and exhilarating facebook.com/groups/palmcen…

Happy new year! We look forward to sharing more inspiring, innovative content with you in 2021… And unveiling our new, fresher publishing format! Until then, through January, we’ll be sharing a few of our most popular articles from 2020. #BestofScan2020 #HolidayReading #k12

Kicking off the #BestofScan2020… ‘Book bento boxes: Creative reading response’ by Dr Jennie Bales & Louise Saint-John: education.nsw.gov.au/teaching-and-l…. Are your students using book bento boxes yet? We'd love to see their creations! #HolidayReading #tlchat #k12 #edchat #teamenglishoz

Next up in the #BestofScan2020 series… ‘Examining persuasive techniques using visual and digital texts’ by Jennifer Asha! education.nsw.gov.au/teaching-and-l… #HolidayReading #literacy #tlchat #k12 #edchat #teamenglishoz

Continuing the #BestofScan2020… valuable insights into ‘Interoception as a proactive tool to decrease challenging behaviour’ by Dr @EmmaLGoodall: education.nsw.gov.au/teaching-and-l… #HolidayReading #classroommanagement #edchat #aussieED #autism #k12

Resharing this one for our English teachers… ‘An eloquent silence: The value of wordless narratives’ by Dr Cathy Sly #BestofScan2020 #HolidayReading #tlchat #k12 #edchat #teamenglishoz #oztl education.nsw.gov.au/teaching-and-l…

In case you missed it… in today’s #BestofScan2020, we’re sharing Sussan Allaou’s ideas for assisting EAL/D students to compose informative texts: education.nsw.gov.au/teaching-and-l… #HolidayReading #k12 #edchat #aussieED #teamenglishoz

We have partnered with natedusummit for the launch of STEM|ED Magazine Issue 1. Have you registered for the Innovation in the STEM & Digital Classroom virtual event yet? It is held online for 2 half days on Feb 26 – 27. nationaleducationsummit.com.au/stem-digital-r… #PrimarySTEMChat #AussieEd

I choose to forget Margaret Court.Just forget about her. Instead listen to this. REALLY listen as extraordinary Dr Miriam-Rose Ungunmerr-Bauman explains “dadirri” - aboriginal practice of deep listening. COZ when she spoke- you could hear a pin drop PLS RT abc.net.au/news/2021-01-2…

Scan’s first issue for 2021 is live! Check out our new format and tell us what you think! Explore a new framework for #informationfluency. Use authentic model sentences to improve #studentwriting. And explore #posttruth in #history: education.nsw.gov.au/teaching-and-l… #k12 #tlchat #edchat

Seeking ideas to improve #studentwriting? This month, Tim Creighton explains how authentic model sentences can be used to explicitly teach sentence structure & improve creative writing, based on a superb new resource from The School Magazine: education.nsw.gov.au/teaching-and-l… #ozengchat #engchat

While we have changed and will continue to grow as teacher librarians. This is the type of thinking I encourage all school library staff to consider. We need to be on this leading edge. Where do you sit? weforum.org/agenda/2021/01… via World Economic Forum

Ready for some hands-on, outdoor science? Caitlyn Forster University of Sydney explains the use of plasticine caterpillars to research predators in the local environment: education.nsw.gov.au/teaching-and-l… #k12 #scichat #ScienceEducation @BambiraptorF

#nswtl as teachers using inquiry as a core methodology how often do we include space fir students to re imagine, re think, and review?

Keen to know more about the Information Fluency Framework? Carmel Grimmett shares the experiences of a group of NSW teacher librarians who piloted the framework in Term 2: education.nsw.gov.au/teaching-and-l… #k12 #tlchat #oztlnet #edchat #AussieED #education @SLANSW ASLA

Please to acknowledge the work NSW TLs have put in to the development of a framework. Check out the Information Fluency Framework linked from the policy page education.nsw.gov.au/policy-library…