🎈Congratulations Dr Smith 🎓! @smithre5.bsky.social @tserry2504.bsky.social @pamelasnow.bsky.social @latrobeuni.bsky.social

A big day for the La Trobe SOLAR Lab team yesterday. We conferred an Honorary Doctorate on @ehanford.bsky.social and welcomed @smithre5.bsky.social into the PhD fold. With @tserry2504.bsky.social and Joanna Barbousas 🌻

Currently sitting at the airport in San Fran, waiting to fly home after speaking at the Reading League Summit. I can’t tell you how great it was. Panels of experts in their fields, often with differing views, discussing the finer point of agreement (and disagreement).

Latest from us. Whole-class feedback is better than written comments. But if AI allows you to produce both very quickly - then why not use both?

My new book, Primary Reading Simplified, is released this Monday. Briefly, I'd like to explain why it exists, who I think will find it useful and where you can find it. >>

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Movie Night at the Smiths

Newly published in #LSHSS: Some Comply While Some Defy: Elementary Teachers' Responses to Leadership Mandates on Reading Comprehension Instruction pubs.asha.org/doi/10.1044/... By authors from LaTrobe University @latrobeuni.bsky.social & Edith Cowan University @sigperspectives.bsky.social

You can't use one assessment for multiple purposes - it gets pulled out of shape. That's what happened to GCSEs when they were used for all kinds of purposes they weren't designed for. Things are a bit better at secondary now - but what about primary?

Radio channel which usually plays rubbish just dropped De La Soul and I almost lost my mind.

🌟 Introduce yourself with some jobs you have done apart from what you do now: 1. Fast food employee 2. Mining surveyor 3. Internet cafe manager 4. Research immunologist (briefly) 5. Silver service waiter 6. Tour guide at a gaol for the criminally insane

Good points here on decline of literature (and humanities). I would agree that, being an international phenomenon, this is unlikely to be linked to any particular curriculum or assessment policy (and it’s not like the maths or science curricula have suddenly become more student-friendly).

Today’s poem is called ‘An Invention of Collective Nouns’.

The American teaching union AfT has a great journal, American Educator, with free summarised versions of some really seminal papers (Sweller, Kirschner and Clark, Rosenshine, Willingham, and Dunlosky are the biggies). Quick reads, snappy summaries, great to share with teachers

I am gutted to be on the opposite side of the world to #researchED this weekend.

“Factor” in maths and “Factory” in not maths have the same root etymologically. In essence they both refer to components that build towards something else. Here ends today’s reading.

Movie Night at the Smiths

Brilliant as ever from @claresealy.bsky.social. ⬇️

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This one is a cracker

Just arrived over here from X. No friends just yet!