Supporting Every Child’s Right to Read
The Right To Read Inquiry & Making Changes Across Your School
Resources mentioned in this talk:
- Teaching Sprints: How Overloaded Educators Can Keep Getting Better Paperback – Jan. 15 2021 by Simon Breakspear (Author), Bronwyn Ryrie Jones (Author)
- Why Don’t Students Like School?: A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions About How the Mind Works and What It Means for the Classroom Paperback – April 27 2021 by Daniel T. Willingham (Author)
- How Learning Happens: Seminal Works in Educational Psychology and What They Mean in Practice Paperback – Illustrated, March 3 2020 by Paul A. Kirschner (Author), Carl Hendrick (Author)
- THE ART AND SCIENCE OF TEACHIN G PRIMARY READING Paperback – Sept. 17 2021 by Christopher Such (Author)
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
