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smithre5.bsky.social
CoCEO of Ochre Education, an Australian NFP helping to close equity gaps through curriculum development
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Latest from us. Whole-class feedback is better than written comments. But if AI allows you to produce both very quickly - then why not use both?

submitted 43 days ago • 1 comment

My new book, Primary Reading Simplified, is released this Monday. Briefly, I'd like to explain why it exists, who I think will find it useful and where you can find it. >>

submitted 45 days ago • 6 comments

💡🎧 First ed podcast recommendation of 2025 podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/e...

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

Movie Night at the Smiths

submitted 62 days ago • 0 comments

Newly published in #LSHSS: Some Comply While Some Defy: Elementary Teachers' Responses to Leadership Mandates on Reading Comprehension Instruction pubs.asha.org/doi/10.1044/... By authors from LaTrobe University @latrobeuni.bsky.social & Edith Cowan University @sigperspectives.bsky.social

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

You can't use one assessment for multiple purposes - it gets pulled out of shape. That's what happened to GCSEs when they were used for all kinds of purposes they weren't designed for. Things are a bit better at secondary now - but what about primary?

submitted 105 days ago • 4 comments

Radio channel which usually plays rubbish just dropped De La Soul and I almost lost my mind.

submitted 108 days ago • 0 comments

🌟 Introduce yourself with some jobs you have done apart from what you do now: 1. Fast food employee 2. Mining surveyor 3. Internet cafe manager 4. Research immunologist (briefly) 5. Silver service waiter 6. Tour guide at a gaol for the criminally insane

submitted 115 days ago • 0 comments

Good points here on decline of literature (and humanities). I would agree that, being an international phenomenon, this is unlikely to be linked to any particular curriculum or assessment policy (and it’s not like the maths or science curricula have suddenly become more student-friendly).

submitted 115 days ago • 0 comments

Today’s poem is called ‘An Invention of Collective Nouns’.

submitted 119 days ago • 23 comments

I am gutted to be on the opposite side of the world to #researchED this weekend.

submitted 188 days ago • 0 comments

“Factor” in maths and “Factory” in not maths have the same root etymologically. In essence they both refer to components that build towards something else. Here ends today’s reading.

submitted 191 days ago • 3 comments

Movie Night at the Smiths

submitted 192 days ago • 0 comments

Brilliant as ever from @claresealy.bsky.social. ⬇️

submitted 197 days ago • 1 comment

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submitted 210 days ago • 74 comments

This one is a cracker

submitted 209 days ago • 1 comment

Just arrived over here from X. No friends just yet!

submitted 210 days ago • 5 comments