Foundation for Learning and Literacy

January 22, 2021

Latest resource from ACTF

The Rocky and Me Teaching Toolkit A perfect conversation starter about inclusion and diversity. Rocky & Me follows the story of Stella, an 11-year old girl living with cerebral palsy. When Stella

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Foundation for Learning and Literacy

January 11, 2021

Next Gen Literacy Leaders

Honoring the new class of ILA's 30 Under 30 Read about these amazing your teachers and their inspirational work. https://literacyworldwide.org/docs/default-source/communications/literacy-today/ila-2021-30-under-30.pdf?sfvrsn=5279b38e_4

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Foundation for Learning and Literacy

December 17, 2020

Differentiation is in our schools to stay. What is it? And why are most criticisms of it just plain wrong?

By Linda Graham, Kate de Bruin, Carly Lassig and Ilektra Spandagou The use of a teaching practice known as ‘differentiation’has become more common over time as educators have sought to respond

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Foundation for Learning and Literacy

December 3, 2020

Today is International Day of People with Disability

DPwD is a United Nations observed day celebrated internationally. It aims to increase public awareness, understanding and acceptance of people with disability and celebrate their achievements and contributions. Information on how

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Foundation for Learning and Literacy

November 27, 2020

So you can say ‘bonjour’ – but how about hello in a local Indigenous language?

SMH November 26, 2020 by Helen Pitt Anita Hess: "We need to look at the map of Indigenous Australia just as we would look at a map of Europe, with many

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Foundation for Learning and Literacy

November 25, 2020

Archie Roach’s Took the Children Away: how one heartbreaking song galvanised a nation

The Guardian Kate Hennessy 15 November, 2020 Archie Roach: [The stolen generation] is as much a part of Australia’s history as Captain Cook and Burke and Wills. We still need

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Foundation for Learning and Literacy

October 23, 2020

Children’s Week

Children’s Week celebrates the rights of children to enjoy childhood. The Children’s Week Council of Australia is responsible for encouraging and supporting the widest possible participation of all States and Territories

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Foundation for Learning and Literacy

September 23, 2020

If we want brilliant English, history or geography teachers, why are we making humanities courses so costly?

The Conversation September 24, 2020 By Robyn Cox Did you have an English teacher who studied literature, and imparted their love of it to you? Or a history teacher who brought stories

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Foundation for Learning and Literacy

September 20, 2020

Meeting the needs of struggling readers and writers, particularly in the later primary years and secondary years

August 2020 Catch up with a recent addition on the educator's page. All children are different. Their experiences are different, their environments are different, their ways of thinking are different. A ‘one-size-fits-all’

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Foundation for Learning and Literacy

September 17, 2020

Made for Meaning: Updating and Extending Cambourne’s Conditions of Learning

New book by our Patron Brian Cambourne, co-authored with Debra Crouch Event open to both NCTE members and non-members Register here: https://ncte.org/made-for-meaning-cambourne/ Teachers shape the physical, social, emotional, and intellectual spaces that support student learning.

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