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Developing writing and writers – whole school approaches

Jo Padgham and Christine Topfer

in Turbill, J. Barton, G. & Brock, C. [eds] Teaching Writing in Today's Classrooms: Looking back to look forward, pp 198-217, 2015 published by ALEA

This chapter focuses on two Australian schools and how each one has approached improving and celebrating writing and writers along with developing teachers’ and students’ identities as writers.Two very different schools, Turner School in the ACT and Glenora District School in Tasmania, developed similar approaches to changing beliefs and practices in the teaching and learning of writing. At the time of publication Jo Padgham was principal of Turner School in ACT and Christine Topfer was a Network Lead Teacher, Tasmania, partnering with Glenora District School.These two stories are windows into how school leaders, academic partners, teachers, students and their communities have stayed the course with a focus on whole school improvement in writing.
 
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