One of the great things about adopting the Seven Steps and BrightPath is you don’t have to get rid of things that are already working well in your classroom. If you are doing great things, don’t throw the baby out with the bath water! Instead, build on the foundations you have already laid to create…
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Facts can be as fun as fiction: improving informative writing
So, what is informative writing? At its simplest, any text that seeks to ‘inform’. This includes a fabulous variety of things like: reports emails documentaries news articles sports reports science experiments even things like the description of how a fridge works! In this wonderful digital era, texts are completely multimodal – they can be written,…
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The Educator Hot List 2019: Seven Steps Creator named for the fourth year running!
It’s official! Seven Steps creator and CEO, Jen McVeity has been named in The Educator’s 2019 Hot List for the fourth year in-a-row! The Educator is one of the most renowned Australian publications for senior educational professionals and decision-makers. This lists highlights the outstanding work and research in the name of ensuring students have the…
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National Science Week: Fun Writing Activities
Attention, moonwalkers! National Science Week is 10-18 August. The theme is Destination Moon: more missions, more science. What a fantastic way to celebrate the Moon Landing 50th Anniversary! This is a great time for big-picture thinking with your students: explore moon missions and space programs of the past, present and future. Solve problems and use…
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