Supporting Every Child’s Right to Read
Brendan Lee: A Teacher’s Journey
Dr. Kathryn Garforth and Brendan Lee discussed his journey as a Teacher.
Resources mentioned in this talk:
- Thinking Forward Educators: Building Literacy for Social Equity
- Reading for Life: High Quality Literacy Instruction for All Paperback – Dec 6, 2018 by Lyn Stone (Author)
- The Writing Revolution: A Guide to Advancing Thinking Through Writing in All Subjects and Grades by Judith C. Hochman, Natalie Wexler, et al. | Jul 28 2017
Other resources:
The Right to Read Initiative & Repeated Readings
https://right2readinitiative.com/repeated-readings/
Report of the National Reading Panel: Teaching Children to Read
After almost 10 years as a high school teacher, I left the profession demoralised and I opened up a cafe! I learnt a lot about business, myself, leadership and communication, but also had a sense of unfinished business in education.
After some soul searching, I decided to re-join the profession, but this time as a primary teacher.
One of the major issues I had as a high school teacher was seeing so many disengaged students and I wanted to see if I could get to the heart of the problem.
Since then, I have fallen down a “rabitthole” of research on the science of learning.
I am now committed to supporting as many educators as possible in becoming more evidence-informed, so that they can apply it to their teaching.
Schools are complex places and rather than trying to figure everything out for ourselves, we need to share and collaborate.
Everything I know now, will not be the same as what I know tomorrow.
What I write in this blog, may not be right, but it is part of the process. Join me on this learning journey!
Brendan Lee
