Looking for free PD that actually fits into your week? You’re in the right place. These live sessions cover writing instruction, AI-supported assessment, NAPLAN preparation and whole-school literacy improvement, built for teachers and school leaders. Every event runs online, every seat is free and every session gives you something you can use in your classroom the next day.

Browse what’s coming up in Term 3 and Term 4 below.

Leadership Webinar Series

AI & Assessment – A pragmatic case for schools

Dates: 

  • Tuesday 4 August: 4 – 5 PM (AEST)
  • Monday 7 September: 5 – 6 PM (AEST)

Online via Zoom

Overview: Ben Lawless (Lawless Learning) responds to common concerns about AI-supported writing assessment, showing how it can strengthen teacher judgement rather than replace it and free up time for the teaching that actually moves students forward.

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Leading school-wide improvement in writing

Dates: 

  • Wednesday 5 August: 4 – 5 PM (AEST)
  • Wednesday 9 September: 5 – 6 PM (AEST)

Online via Zoom

Overview: Getting writing results to lift across an entire school is hard. Two leaders who’ve done it join us to talk through what worked. Hear how they rolled out a research-based approach, brought staff along through the change and kept results improving over time.

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Book Week 2026

Bookings open end of July

Reading Circles in Action: Live Lessons

Watch your students read like writers. Across two live sessions, we’ll use three roles from our Reading Circles resource to unpack the opening chapters of two texts from the CBCA 2026 Book of the Year shortlist.

Years 5–9Date: Tuesday 25 August (Time TBC)Text: Spirit of the Crocodile by Aaron Fa’aoso & Michelle Scott TuckerOverview: Watch your students spot Sizzling Starts techniques, read character clues and unpack Show, Don’t Tell, live.

Years 2–4Date: Thursday 27 August (Time TBC)Text: Something Terrible: Tim Tie-Your-Shoelaces by Sally BartonOverview: Your younger writers spot the sizzle, track the tension and collect standout vocabulary, live.

NAPLAN

Bookings open in August

Top Tips for NAPLAN Writing Success

Dates: 

  • Monday 14 September (Time TBC)
  • Wednesday 28 October (Time TBC)

Overview: Get our top tips for lifting student writing before NAPLAN. Try a classroom activity you can use straight away, and see how our AI-powered assessment tool points you to exactly where to focus your teaching, using insights aligned to the NAPLAN rubric.

Free A3 Literacy Calendar

Your Term 3 and 4 planner of literacy events, free webinars and workshop dates.

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Explore Seven Steps training

Term 1 workshops are now open for booking!

Join one of our live workshops and pick up practical writing strategies firsthand from our expert presenter. Choose from face-to-face sessions across Australia or online workshops you can join from anywhere.

Three workshop options to suit where you are in your journey:

Seven Steps to Transform Writing – the full approach, with activities you can use in class the next day – for teachers new to the Seven Steps.

Putting It All Together – take the approach further with full texts, informative and persuasive writing. For teachers who’ve already learnt the Seven Steps.

Applying the Seven Steps with Beginner Writers – online session for Seven Steps teachers who want to adapt it for beginner writers.