All teachers in New South Wales will undertake training in a style of teaching called “explicit instruction” immediately after the Easter holidays. It takes the opposite approach to whole language – theorising that learning to read is hard and needs to be taught directly over two or three years.
Since adopting explicit instruction, Marsden Road Public School has transformed its NAPLAN results and sustained them, with life-changing results for students.
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🚗 Would you travel hundreds of kilometres to play for your ‘local’ sports club? These families in regional Australia are doing just that but the cost of the trips is starting to add up.
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🎈 Being a clown doctor isn’t just about balloon animals. Nor does it usually involve a medical degree or being a doctor.
🤡 What is does involve — fun and laughter.
📽️ Reporting by Geo Donaldson via ABC Canberra
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"I see us as music. I see punk rock as nothing." 🤘
This is Bon Scott's cheeky 1977 interview with the ABC where he made a dig at the newly formed group, The Sex Pistols.
Stream the documentary On the Brink now on ABC iview.
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👟 As the cost of living goes up and budgets are squeezed, this mum is bringing families together to ease the burden when it comes to kids sport.
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Almost five decades before a cargo ship lost control and crashed into Baltimore’s Key Bridge, another ship hit a very different bridge in a deadly accident right here in Australia, killing 12 people.
While rescue efforts continue overseas, news and vision of the bridge completely collapsing has taken many Australians back to 1975, when Hobart’s Tasman Bridge partially gave way.
Read the full story by Madeleine Rojahn via the link in bio.
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The idea of the nuclear family - mum, dad and kids in a self-contained household - isn’t really the norm in much of the world, but in many Western countries it’s often seen as the default. But as many families have shown, it isn’t the only way!
Meet a unique rainbow family who are smashing through some of those traditional ideas that we’ve inherited.
🎙️Life Matters on @abcradionational
🔗 Listen to the full interview via the link in @abcqueer ’s bio.
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