Primary Focus

Primary Focus is a national advocacy movement which creates, evidence-based information for motivated decision makers to improve Australia's primary schools.

[Primary Focus @PrimaryFocusAU]

Primary School Efficacy - the best lever we have to improve the Nation's productivity. Our @PrimaryFocusAU submission to the Productivity Commission's Inquiry into Australia's Productivity Performance. https://t.co/6a6iJAknPY
11:52 AM · Apr 6, 2022

[Jason Clare MP @JasonClareMP]

Education is the most powerful cause for good in this country. It will be an extraordinary privilege to serve as Minister for Education in an Albanese Labor Government.

[Damon Thomas @DamonPThomas]

NEW POST 📫 Designing a new early reading course for teacher education. I'd really appreciate any feedback from teachers and other education professionals familiar with reading instruction. Let's prepare confident beginning teachers of reading 🙏🏻 https://t.co/5AGkrWaDer

[Elena Douglas @douglas_elena]

I have spoken to too many heartbroken teachers who have discovered, after years in the classroom, that there are effective ways to teach children to read despite not being taught these in their education degrees. There are profound equity consequences to this failure.

[Natalie Wexler @natwexler]

By popular demand: Why Lucy Calkins' "workshop" approach to writing instruction has at least as many problems as her approach to reading, & some background on where it all came from, in my latest Forbes post:

https://t.co/JyJe0sSGur

[Primary Focus @PrimaryFocusAU]

ICYMI: A balanced and fair write up by @BethanyHiatt at @westaustralian on the joint investigation by @PrimaryFocusAU and @FIVEfromFIVE. Thanks to all those who contributed to this important work which hopefully reforms a system which is failing our teachers and students.

[Katy Main @katy_main_]

As a recent graduate, I expected better from my ITE course.

[Mandy Nayton @mandynayton]

These 15 online sessions focused on the science, skills and conventions of writing will provide school leaders and teachers with access to current research and evidence-informed strategies just in time for 2022 the school year. Watch as they are made available or when it suits!

[Primary Focus @PrimaryFocusAU]

Always good for schools to follow the evidence of what works best...whether it is play...or reading.

[The West Australian @westaustralian]

Inglewood Primary School will allow pre-schoolers to go barefoot, saying that it helps improve posture, develop sensory awareness and strengthen their feet and body.
https://t.co/bRdYqpz7sa

[five from five @FIVEfromFIVE]

Teaching reading is highly skilled work. It requires well-trained teachers & educators who are knowledgeable about reading development, data-based & assessment based instructional decisions, & a wide array of evidence based & personalised teaching strategies @reading_league

[Primary Focus @PrimaryFocusAU]

We don't accept kids guessing the answers in maths, so why would we do it in reading?

[Emily Hanford @ehanford]

In case you missed @s_e_schwartz's latest in @educationweek
New reviews find popular reading materials wanting...
"Instruction in foundational reading skills like phonological awareness and phonics “lacks a cohesive and intentional scope and sequence.”

https://t.co/N330DD6Yr0

[Ms. Bobbitt, M.Ed🤓 @bobbittreads]

Literacy is a social justice issue.
Effective literacy instruction is the solution.

[Primary Focus @PrimaryFocusAU]

Been having some tremendous conversations with some brilliant education leaders and one is clear, we need to spend time thinking about HOW we teach, as much as we think about WHAT we teach. #primaryfocus

[Primary Focus @PrimaryFocusAU]

It's certainly well overdue that every economist in the country understood that the best tool with which to improve our productivity is proper investment in education. If you want a super-charged economy, first you need to super-charge education.

[Primary Focus @PrimaryFocusAU]

In case @AlanTudgeMP didn't already have enough evidence of a crisis in Australian literacy

[Monte Bovill @MonteBovill]

Spotted at Hobart Airport … “Australian BOREDER Force” 😅👀

[Primary Focus @PrimaryFocusAU]

The importance of education and the role in plays in the nation's future economy is well defined in this thought provoking piece. Education isn't just an issue for those attached to schools.
https://t.co/VUDzoopKLi

[Primary Focus @PrimaryFocusAU]

An important piece to read about getting caught up in the latest fad by @buckingham_j Beware the wolf in explicit teaching clothing.
https://t.co/2sGXh8BcFk

[Primary Focus @PrimaryFocusAU]

An unreported but vital statistic from NAPLAN. Across Australia more than 1 in 10 kids in Year 3 are either at or below the national minimum standard for reading. That's not good enough and we need to work harder and smarter to get better results. #naplan #literacy #primaryfocus

[Dr Tim McDonald @DrTimMcDonald1]

Today we celebrate #EarlyChildhoodEducatorsDay! I’ve spent over 20 years in the education industry seeing educators shape the lives of children and support them to become the most inspired young person they can be.