Rebecca Birch - On Education

Season Two, Episode 1: Starting right

Watch now | Classroom skills and routines to create the conditions for learning from Day One

Published on Chalk Dust • Feb 5

32:25

January 2026

On chasing the rainbow of intrinsic motivation

And the viable alternatives teachers can adopt to support effort and learning

Jan 26 • Rebecca Birch

36

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December 2025

Episode 8: Building trust with high expectations

Belonging in the service of learning and growth

Published on Chalk Dust • Dec 30, 2025

39:20

November 2025

Episode 10: More consistency means more freedom

With insights from Peps Mccrea of Steplab

Published on Chalk Dust • Nov 24, 2025

39:32

Episode 9: Kaitlyn's Classroom Glow-Up

How coaching can transform student participation and learning

Published on Chalk Dust • Nov 3, 2025

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, 2025

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, 2025

38:58

On the five big risks to reform

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

Sep 1, 2025 • Rebecca Birch

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August 2025

On high quality instructional materials

They do what they say on the tin.

Aug 25, 2025 • Rebecca Birch

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2

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, 2025

37:31

On the work of AERO

An open letter of support

Aug 4, 2025 • Rebecca Birch

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July 2025

Episode 4: Check, then Challenge

Brendan Lee shows faded guidance in Mathematics

Published on Chalk Dust • Jul 20, 2025

34:30