Rebecca Birch - On Education

Episode 6: Real-time teaching

Responsive instruction for when we taught it, but they didn't learn it

Published on Chalk Dust • Sep 4

38:58

On the five big risks to reform

Promise and peril in Australia’s evidence-based teaching revolution

Sep 1 • 

Rebecca Birch

16

August 2025

On high quality instructional materials

They do what they say on the tin.

Aug 25 • 

Rebecca Birch

15

Episode 5: Start the Way You Mean to Finish

Entry routines for everyone, with special guest Dr Mark Dowley

Published on Chalk Dust • Aug 12

37:31

On the work of AERO

An open letter of support

Aug 4 • 

Rebecca Birch

21

July 2025

Episode 4: Check, then Challenge

Brendan Lee shows faded guidance in Mathematics

Published on Chalk Dust • Jul 20

34:30

On academic wellbeing

A more granular look at how effective teaching supports motivation

Jul 12 • 

Rebecca Birch

20

June 2025

On how to make any teacher an expert in writing

Implementing a secondary, whole-school writing approach

Jun 26 • 

Rebecca Birch

32

Episode 3: Running the Secondary Room

High Structure, High Engagement, High Learning

Published on Chalk Dust • Jun 16

33:41

On the cycle of avoidance

How schools are inadvertently setting students up to fail

Jun 5 • 

Rebecca Birch

36

May 2025

Episode 2: The Art and Science of Phonics Instruction

With special guest, Principal Manisha Gazula of Marsden Road Public School

Published on Chalk Dust • May 27

27:43

Episode 1: From CfU to CfQ

Listen now | Checking for Quality of Student Responses

Published on Chalk Dust • May 4

33:10