
James Whiteacre
@jswhiteacre
Teacher. Interested in Literacy, Explicit teaching, Direct Instruction and Evidence informed approaches. Sounds-Write practitioner.
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09-07-2011 04:35:42
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‘The core business of school is to teach children how to read, write & do maths. Do we want the direction of teaching to be pouring more time into a Mother’s Day stall than they do into a maths lesson?’ Manisha Gazula Marsden Road Public School Sharing Best Practice Troy Verey Sue Knight


A key takeaway from Manisha Gazula from Marsden Road Public School at Sharing Best Practice: "appreciating student mediocrity is patronising & has minimal impact. Success is the greatest motivator." We know students learn mostly the same. Let's raise the bar and teach them.

Sharing Best Practice Congratulations to the committee on a fabulous conference. It was a pleasure to present to a very keen audience of nearly 300 who gave up their Saturday to learn, promote and celebrate evidence based practice.



Choral Response and 'I Say You Say' bunsenblue.wordpress.com/2025/02/08/cho… masterpiece after masterpiece of curating teaching decision-making strategies from Pritesh Raichura





“Engagement” is all the rage in k-12 education, but it doesn’t mean what people think it means. David Didau explains.👇🏼 “The uncomfortable truth: is that real engagement often doesn’t look like fun. It looks like silence, or frustration, or long moments of effortful thinking.”






