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Hansberry Educational Consulting

Locality: Glenelg, South Australia

Phone: +61 433 399 767

Address: 22 Gordon St 5045 Glenelg, SA, Australia

Website: http://www.hansberryec.com.au

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24.01.2022 We love you Carol Tolman!

23.01.2022 Don’t forget! come and try the Word Cracker with Sally tomorrow at Walkerville Library!

17.01.2022 Don’t miss out, tomorrow is your chance to drop into Walkerville Library to see how to use the Word Cracker literacy tool to become evidence based in your teaching of spelling, vocabulary, reading and grammar. Free gift of 5 pack student whiteboards (RRP $10) for anyone who attends AND purchases or orders Word Cracker resources. Make this the year you start teaching spelling and stop just testing spelling. Please tag anyone who might be interested.

16.01.2022 Thanks for posting this IMSLE. An interesting read. We know what allowing students with specific learning difficulties to use the keyboard is also an important accommodation.

16.01.2022 I just dug this classic off the shelf. It’s one of the most influential works on behaviour management and has significantly influenced Dr. Bill Rogers’ work. Time for a re-read!

16.01.2022 Now is the time to start thinking about how to make your 2021 spelling program more effective. Morphology must be part of it! Get the knowledge this term so you can plan effectively for next year!

15.01.2022 It’s Moonjar three part money box wrapping day! These are a fantastic gift idea for parents wanting to teach financial literacy to their kids. All three of ours learned to distribute income with these. We now have an 18 year old with multiple bank accounts and a nice tidy money management system! Order for Christmas at: https://www.moonjar.com.au/

13.01.2022 Here Tom and I use a Word Cracker student whiteboard to pull apart a complex word into its morphemic parts (dutifully) so he can spell it in a Playberry dictation task. Many students don't have a hope at spelling words like this though a purely phonic lens (although phonics is the bedrock of spelling) and need to see it though a morphemic lens to get closer to the correct spelling. Watch how we also tackle the change 'y' to 'i' rule here as well! Word Cracker Student Whitebo...ards available from: https://www.hansberryec.com.au//word-cracker-student-white https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ytKgNVBy0M

13.01.2022 I have an advanced student who is at the upper end of the Playberry program and I’ve decided to use a diagnostic dictation from the Word Cracking Manual to check her use of the 111 doubling rule. Her performance here will also show me if she’s using morphemic knowledge to build words and how she’s going wirh the ‘add k’ spelling rule.

11.01.2022 Teaching the Doubling Rule with the Word Cracker!

10.01.2022 Sally will be at Walkerville Library from 2-4 tomorrow afternoon with the Word Cracker and resources for people to drop in and look at. There will be some for sale.

09.01.2022 Here I teach Aidan about the suffix 'y' using a teaching tool that has changed the way I teach word study in the Playberry Program. The Word Cracker will be the best investment you will make in your teaching of spelling and grammar. Notice how using the Word Cracker lightens Aidan's cognitive load so he can attend to the links between the suffix 'y' and how it alters words' part in speech. He's a wonderful kid who works so hard. The Word Cracker is available at https://www.hansberryec.com.au//word-cracker-magnet-board-

08.01.2022 Anyone who tuned into my talk for Literacy Guarantee Unit (SA Department for Education) last week will hear echoes in this article of what all leaders from the schools I showcased said about the explicit teaching of literacy being responsible for their students’ increased success. Leaders from both schools were firm in their opinion that child based, which ends up being ‘inquiry based’ learning had a place, but what mattered was what inquiry was used for, and when it was emp...loyed as a pedagogy. It was clear that inquiry only serves a purpose when students have a sound knowledge and skill base that has been directly taught by a knowledgeable teacher. Without this, students who are sent off to solve problems, through enquiry flounder as they continue to apply incorrect methods to solve a problem. Inquiry, although appealing and easily marketable to parents, fails to deliver the goods unless teachers are highly knowledgeable and skilled in delivery of that knowledge. There’s just no way around this. I’m not at all surprised by the claims made by some that student led learning is responsible for falling results in NZ, I’ve suspected the same with many well intentioned schools I’ve come across who seem bewitched by the appealing lure of student led curriculum and exotic, well branded and incredibly expensive international curriculums. Many of these have been quick to reject explicit, teacher directed models of teaching as they clash with their ideologies about teaching and learning. In my experience, ideology isn’t good for much. I have to say that I’m not one of those who cries ‘back to basics’ from the rooftops. It’s a cheap slogan that really doesn’t stand up when you interrogate it. What I am informed by is what Cognitive Psychology teaches us about how humans best retain information in memory. This correlates closely with what reading research has been telling us for decades about how you help kids memorise 26 letters and the 44 sounds that they come together in (in thousands of combinations) to represent. The schools who’ve decided to replace ‘what they believe’ about learning with ‘what the convergence of research says’ are now leaving their ‘believing’ counterparts in the proverbial dust. Over the next decade I believe that many schools with a strong inquiry focus will need to pivot (I can’t stand this term but it’s appropriate here) and interrogate the hard evidence behind their beliefs about teaching and learning. I feel that the result of not doing so will be an endless run of uncomfortable conversations with high fee paying parents about why the school down the road is walloping them in measures of literacy and numeracy and possibly science!

07.01.2022 TSD1 for 2021 has filled BUT if we have the interest we will run a second course directly after (15-18 April). So, if you want, download the reg form for the original course and we will keep you in the loop. https://89995a9e-6afd-44f9-bb3a-456c27a94b37.filesusr.com/

07.01.2022 Talk to your Principal: Save the date. Venue will be in Adelaide.

04.01.2022 This is my mate Vick Kelly. Smart bloke and very good at golf! BTW, he also explains what takes place in a restorative conference on an emotional level beautifully.