Although distinct in their size, communities and history, three schools in Melbourne’s west are united in their Catholic faith. Annunciation, St Margaret Mary’s and St Martin de Porres primary schools belong to the sixth largest education system in Australia, administered by Catholic Education Melbourne (CEM). Over
When Annie pointedly raises one index finger, her colleagues smile knowingly, immediately grasping her meaning. One of the Deputy Principals at St Monica’s Catholic Primary School in Footscray, Annie is signaling that there is but one page, and they’re all on it. The image and its
Since 2018, over 350 educators have visited the classrooms of St Bernard’s Catholic Primary School in East Coburg, Victoria. They have travelled from inside and outside the country to see Australia’s first Visible Learning+ Certified School in action, to tap into the knowledge and experience
This blog is Part 4 of the 4-part series on Promising Principles to Enhance Learning. Part 1: Seven Promising Principles to Enhance Learning in Your School or Classroom Part 2: Four Ingredients that Motivate our Learners to Engage Part 3: Ways to Enhance Remembering: The Role of Retrieval
Part 3 of the 4-part series on Promising Principles to Enhance Learning. Part 1: Seven Promising Principles to Enhance Learning in Your School or Classroom Part 2: Four Ingredients that Motivate our Learners to Engage Whether you teach physics or physical education, mathematics or music, calculus or kindergarten, we want our students to do more
Attended the 9th Annual Visible Learning Conference with us? Couldn’t attend and want an overview of what you missed/ a preview of what is to come at AVL 2022? Let’s take a quick look back at this year’s conference: Over 1,000 attendees joined us virtually from all around the globe for
Part 2 of the 4-part series on Promising Principles to Enhance Learning. Review part 1: Seven Promising Principles to Enhance Learning in Your School or Classroom Let’s start with a challenge. Once upon a time a local merchant went to a market and purchased a wolf, a goat, and a several heads of cabbage.
Oxford High School (OHS) has an enrollment of 1223 students grades 9-12. OHS students are 60% white, 27% Black, 12% Hispanic, 1% Asian. Half of the students qualify for free and reduced lunch. In Fall 2019, OHS teachers began a district-wide learning journey focused on classroom questioning. Using Walsh and Sattes’ Quality Questioning, 2nd Edition, as a guide, we
Imagine you have a Golden Ticket—a chance to disrupt the grammar of schooling, a chance to engage more students, a chance for educators, not policy makers, to truly lead a drastic improvement in our schools, a chance to keep the best of what is and add the best that has been, a chance to truly hear
The 8th Annual Visible Learning Conference, originally slated for New Orleans, streamed live on Zoom with almost 1,000 colleagues online with us. The conference opened with our MC, Sonja Alexander, welcoming attendees with the New Second Line Song by Mardi Gras Big Shots and Milton