Rebecca Birch - On Education

Episode 10: More consistency means more freedom

With insights from Peps Mccrea of Steplab

Published on Chalk Dust • Nov 24

39:32

Episode 9: Kaitlyn's Classroom Glow-Up

How coaching can transform student participation and learning

Published on Chalk Dust • Nov 3

33:27

September 2025

Episode 7: How to avoid just teaching yourself

Explicit direct instruction, student participation, and learning that lasts

Published on Chalk Dust • Sep 21

31:25

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 • 

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5

August 2025

On high quality instructional materials

They do what they say on the tin.

Aug 25 • 

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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 • 

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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 • 

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June 2025

On how to make any teacher an expert in writing

Implementing a secondary, whole-school writing approach

Jun 26 • 

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Episode 3: Running the Secondary Room

High Structure, High Engagement, High Learning

Published on Chalk Dust • Jun 16

33:41