Month: September 2017
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Consistency and community key in Indigenous literacy: Q&A with Shirley Davey
Literacy is a community affair in the Top End, according to Literacy and Numeracy Trainer Shirley Davey. In the remote areas where Shirley works, students, families, teachers and trainers are working together to bring the benefits of literacy and numeracy. We asked Shirley about her experience working in Indigenous literacy. Where do you work? Northern…
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Q&A: Indigenous literacy trainer Emily Davies
Working in Indigenous literacy can be ‘pure magic’ according to NT Government Literacy and Numeracy Projects Training Officer Emily Davies. To celebrate Indigenous Literacy Day, we spoke to Emily about her role visiting schools in the Katherine region, the challenges she faces and the joy of helping Indigenous students to read. Where do you work?…
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Suspension and exclusion rates from schools in most Australian states are skyrocketing. Are we inclusive or exclusive?
By Professor Emeritus Merv Hyde PhD AM, School of Education, University of the Sunshine Coast More and more students are being suspended and excluded from schools than in the past, according to recent reports from several Australian school systems. We have even seen rapidly escalating rates of student suspensions from Prep and Grade 1 classes. Disturbingly, some states…
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Oxford Word of the Month: September – cubby house
noun: a part of a family home organised or designed so that adult children can have privacy from their parents. THE STORY BEHIND THE WORD OF THE MONTH High rents in urban areas and the housing affordability crisis in Australia have given rise to a now familiar problem for parents: when will the kids leave…