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What do you know about memory retention? A great quiz to spark discussion about how we learn 🧠

Quiz: What Do You Know About Memory and Retention? A fun, 12-question quiz that tests your knowledge of how learned material is stored and recalled.

📚 Teachers, want to strengthen your students’ reading skills from the ground up?

This insightful article highlights the crucial role of improving children's language as the foundation for successful reading development using Language Lift.

Discover strategies to support language growth that can make a real difference in early literacy.

Check it out here 👉 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/22000259.2026.2731057

Let’s build strong language skills to unlock confident readers!

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/22000259.2026.2731057?fbclid=IwZnRzaAUw7o9leHRuA2FlbQIxMQBwZG9mBWZkaWQWUPtwCm-i4NeELKv5JUL-ueL3cni_RXNydGMGYXBwX2lkCjY2Mjg1NjgzNzkAAR66WoahyBnbxrbHVz2FzzT1oFVYswRtu-JBgn8WK8qCeKJ18eonA1RQy4QRVg_aem_g2p5abv7YpoavZq6AAfGvw

Emily Hanford the creator of Sold a Story is turning her attention to teaching in Season 2.

Starts October 15

Sold a Story 2: What Happened to Teaching Sold a Story is an investigative podcast about how kids learn — wha...

A ☣️ LETHAL MUTATION in education starts with good intentions, and occurs when an evidence-based, scientifically sound teaching strategy is misunderstood, oversimplified, or misapplied over time until it becomes ineffective or counterproductive

Jamie Clark’s guest explores how strategies become disconnected from the principles that made them effective in the first place, why these lethal mutations happen, and what teachers and school leaders can do to prevent them.

Lethal Mutations: When Good Ideas Lose Their Purpose [FREE ONE-PAGE GUIDE] Dr Haili Hughes on what a lethal mutation is, why retrieval practice and feedback drift from their purpose, and five strategies to catch it before it costs student learning.

For decades Louisa Moats has been a phenomenal force in the push to change the way reading is taught in both the USA and internationally

The Woman Winning the Reading Wars Louisa Moats’ teacher-training program is painstaking, pricey, and decades old. It’s also the hot new thing

Lower Academic Standards Can Perpetuate Unfairness

Instead of making “success” easier, let’s encourage schools to adopt the evidence-informed instruction that can unlock students’ potential.

NATALIE WEXLER

Lower Academic Standards Can Perpetuate Unfairness Instead of making “success” easier, let’s encourage schools to adopt the evidence-informed instruction that can unlock students’ potential.

New Snow Report!

Guest post: The “Yeah But” Brigade: Moving on from education’s uncomfortable relationship with data.

This is a guest blog post by a South Australian secondary teacher with nearly 20 years classroom and leadership experience across a range of education sectors and settings.

Guest post: The “Yeah But” Brigade: Moving on from education’s uncomfortable relationship with data. This is a guest blog post by James Benson*, a South Australian secondary teacher with nearly 20 years classroom and leadership experience across a range of education sectors and settings.

💥 FREE Term 4 Professional Development seminars are now open for registration.

📅 Starting 14 October, at 3.30pm AEDT

🎓 These seminars are designed to help you bridge the research-practice gap, offering practical classroom ideas and explaining the rationale behind their effectiveness.

Further details and registration:
https://fivefromfive.com.au/presentations/professional-learning-seminar-series/

All registrants will receive a recording.

Professional Learning Seminar Series - Five from Five Five from Five offers seven free professional learning seminars. They are available either as scheduled webinars that anyone is welcome to attend or, when available, schools can book a presentation for whole staff professional learning either as a videoconference workshop or, depending on location a...

A new Flinders University study of primary school children shows a science‑based digital phonics reading app can support acquisition of GPCs while helping teachers quickly identify students needing extra support.

The study, involving nearly 400 children, found students who used ReadingDoctor® Online alongside regular classroom teaching improved their recall of GPCs. The more the app was used, the greater the gains, with the biggest improvements among children who started behind.

Read the full article here 👇

Reading app boosts kids' literacy A new Flinders University study of primary school children shows a science‑based digital phonics reading app can accelerate early reading while helping teachers quickly identify students […]

We are excited for this one!

Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_p64hs-5kRq6DAAiCwd5ysw