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Zero Staff Turnover: The "Secret Sauce" of a High-Performing School (opens the original)
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How does a large, busy school move from “islands of excellence” to a coherent, low-variance instructional model? In this episode, Brendan Lee sits down with staff from the Junior School of Trinity Anglican College, Albury— Simon Fairall (Deputy Principal - Junior School), Lauren Naldrett (Dean of Studies - Junior School) and Kirby McDonald (Classroom teacher and Practice and Pedagogy lead)—to unpack their multi-year journey into the Science of Learning.We dive deep into how to manage teacher cog
Climbing Mount PISA (opens the original)
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It doesn’t matter how you look at it, Australia’s PISA results are pretty poor to look at. Even worse, we’ve been on a downwards trajectory for my whole teaching career. Damn, it must be my fault! In all seriousness though, when results like this are released, everyone wants to play the blame game and point fingers. Right now, what we should do is pause for a moment and look at what this information is actually telling us.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com
Bridging the Divide (opens the original)
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Recently, I took my children to Science in the Scrub, a free family fun day out at Western Sydney Parklands. There were thousands of cars queued in every direction, all trying to get into Lizard Log. If you didn’t know better, you might have thought Taylor Swift was in town. Instead, it was thousands of parents looking for a free day out that would keep their children occupied. The fact that it was educational was a bonus.Children moved from microscopes to medicinal plants, then on to seaweed sc
S04E11 - Dr. Haili Hughes on How Teachers Really Get Better (opens the original)
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In this episode of Knowledge for Teachers, I am joined by . Haili is an Associate Professor at La Trobe University with over twenty years of experience leading secondary schools in England. We explore the realities of implementing evidence-informed instruction and how school leaders can avoid the lethal mutations that turn sound cognitive science into rigid compliance checklists.Listeners will discover why the rise of AI actually makes a teacher’s deep subject knowledge more critical than ever.
6 Common Mistakes Schools Make When Implementing MTSS with Dr. Sarah Brown and Dr. Stephanie Stollar (opens the original)
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If your school’s intervention system feels like an endless treadmill, this episode is a must-listen. Dr Sarah Brown (President of System Impact Consulting) and Dr Stephanie Stollar (Creator of the Reading Science Academy) join the podcast to dismantle the most common mistakes schools make with Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS).In this episode, you will learn why the MTSS pyramid is actually a map of school resources rather than a tool for sorting students. Stephanie reveals the dangers of t
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