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death by a thousand caveats (opens the original)
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You don’t need to use explicit instruction in your classroom. In fact, you don’t even need to subscribe to the idea that it’s somehow superior to other instructional techniques. You’re also welcome to take the above out of context and post it with my name every time you see me openly state that I am an advocate for explicit instruction if that makes you feel better.However, what you do need to accept in making that choice is that you are choosing to ignore a substantial body of evidence that sup
access questions: building the conditions for universal success in your tier 1 instruction (opens the original)
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I’m excited to release this one! I love writing about practical classroom strategies, but it’s a challenging thing to do in a post - mostly because I’m trying to avoid lethal mutations and somehow cover enough theory and examples that people might actually be able to take this away and apply it to their own context/subject area. That is no easy feat. In a recent post, I said that we should treat ability as an output of our instruction, rather than an input, and went on to say that:<div class="su
no capitals in the capital: researchED canberra recap (opens the original)
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I was lucky enough to spend the weekend just gone in Canberra for the inaugural researchED Canberra conference. I’m not going to lie, August has been a massive month for me and there’s a part of me that is thankful it’s coming to a close. Whilst I am so grateful for the incredible experiences I’ve had and feel so lucky that I get to be involved in this space, it’s certainly been tiring. I’ve only had one weekend this month at home in Queensland. The rest have largely been weeks filled with me pr
what’s the deal with acpue? (opens the original)
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Quick note: The plot of this story advanced in real time while I was literally writing this. I’ve kept the story as it unfolded because it’s quite the wild ride.Anyone who has been stuck spending time with me in the past week has also quite likely also been stuck hearing all about the Australian Centre for the Public Understanding of Education (ACPUE). Quite possibly at length.Thanks for reading the disruptive educator! Subscribe for free
weaponising naplan: how underachievement is being used to indict explicit instruction (opens the original)
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It’s the talk of edu-media everywhere this week, if you consider everywhere to really just mean Australia. There’s probably good reason for this. NAPLAN is one of the few consistent national measures that exists in Australia for tracking student achievement in literacy and numeracy. For those of you reading this who are not familiar with NAPLAN, I’ll give you the quick summary:NAPLAN = National Assessment Program - Literacy and NumeracyIt’s an Australian standardised test that students sit in Ye
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