3 years ago, Morrison promised an integrity commission to hold our federal politicians accountable. Since then, there's been countless rorts and scandals. Now, he's kicking the can down the road AGAIN, trying to delay a bill until 2022. We want a Federal ICAC now.

"If half the kids can't read without paying for outside tutors, you don't have an 'intervention problem' - you have a core instruction problem." An official told me that was "deep" My respnse: It's really not. We just abandoned common sense to justify practices and outcomes.

Federal Government priorities…

The neurotypical urge not to answer yes or no questions with a "yes" or a "no" is something I will never understand.

The last fortnight my students have had swimming lessons. It turns out explicit instructions is used when we're teaching potentially life-saving skill. So here's a 🧵on how swimming teachers are phenomenal at instruction (a la Rosenshine):

Claiming there is an Australian way of dealing with climate change, is like claiming there is an Australian way of adding up 1 + 1.

Words cannot describe how much I wish I had the basic knowledge of the world’s most common learning difficulty, because I know it would have saved my 2E dyslexic child from the school-based traumas that she endured at the hands of nefarious educators in broken and chronically

Autistic Twitter, Show me your greatest collection.

@adamlcarey Redactions, in a (publicly funded) report about children learning to read? What on earth?

My 15 yo daughter’s work experience went wonky this week so I’ve been teaching her how images of nature improve mental health, due to fractal patterns alleviating stress levels the release of dopamine when we look at something beautiful. She made this photo for you:

If you believe that every child in Victoria should have the ability to read, write and spell we need your help. Pls sign this petition change.org/p/remove-level… 📷

Today is International Literacy Day! You can celebrate by sharing our Implementation Toolkits related to Beginning Reading. #InternationalLiteracyDay2023 #reading improvingliteracy.org/kit?field_audi…

Under a mushroom cap. Thought everyone would enjoy this.

This is a sketch by comedian Trevor Moore. He died from falling off a balcony in Los Angeles.