Ok, as promised, here's a thread of my top 15 non-verbal gestures for effective behaviour management:

The simple act of singing can calm the brain's stress response and help settle the room when things are out of hand. 🎶🧠

5 strategies of formative assessment from Dylan Wiliam. Use them to understand next steps for your learners.

The SLI Rural and Remote team explored our Leadership Mindsets with @cabrahighschool leadership team today. They will be doing the same next week with @fairvaleps, @LansvalePS and @FairWestPS !

Teachers have always known that kids can't learn if they feel anxious and disconnected. Here are *6 ways* to help students feel centered, connected, and in control. ✨ https://t.co/Ax6lCpUk8H

Practice tests not only assess what students know, but also increase their ability to recall information.

"If nothing else, the pandemic has taught us that human connection and relationships must lie at the heart of our 21st-century models of schooling." — @paul_emerich

It is with heavy hearts that we announce Sir Ken Robinson died peacefully yesterday, 21st August 2020, surrounded by family after a short battle with cancer. We will be following up with a further update as we begin to follow Sir Ken’s wishes and honour his legacy.

‘Don’t have transmission between school children’ - do they even qualify for testing? Do teachers qualify for testing? When children and teachers are tested, you might actually know what you don’t know now. So many w symptoms not tested. How many asymptomatic?

NOII Conference Pass the Parcel icebreaker. Everybody is a winner! #noiinsw

Ultimo 3 Instructional Leaders collaborating, sharing and learning at the Term 2 Network Meeting. #EAfS @MelindaHollandR @sandraxto223

Thank you A/Prof Noella Mackenzie for your valuable EAFS L/N Leader PL on the importance of teaching children to write by hand. @shirleyjbecker @ONeillKristie @FarnhamRosemary @NoellaMackenzie

Ultimo 3 Instructional Leaders deep in conversation yesterday about their goals for literacy, numeracy and instructional leadership and the strategies for achieving them.

Today we made cell membranes using straws and bubbles, and the Ss had to figure out how to pass something through without it popping! We discussed how membranes are fluid, selectively permeable, and repair themselves, and how they use transfer proteins to let materials through!

Self-regulation is taught and learned. Coach kids instead of punishing them. #kidsdeserveit #teachergoals

Reading is not taught in guided reading alone. It is one part in a larger literacy system. #fpliteracy #fountasandpinnell #guidedreading

Inspired to start 5 min Learning Walks and Talks. Thanks for an amazing day of PL @LynSharratt @ONeillKristie @paulbrianwood

#smashemsixers

By filming themselves—and their students—teachers are able to go back and notice things they never had before. Talk about having eyes in the backs of their heads!

Before assigning any activity, ask these questions: * is it engaging? * is there a clear connection to the real world? * have I accounted for any barriers that will inhibit learning? If you answer Yes to all, then launch. If you answer No to any, you must reset.