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BrightPath Next Steps

PL # 14323

  • Starting on 22 Oct 2024
  • Cancellation permitted until 15 Oct 2024
  • Event registrations closed on 15 Oct 2024

Delivery Format : In Person

This PL has been cancelled

Description


Your school needs to be using the Brightpath Narrative Ruler in order to gain maximum benefit from this course.

Brightpath: Next Steps creates the opportunity to nurture and develop students' writing skills through literature and a focus on language, storytelling, character, and the creative process.

This PL gives teachers and aspiring leaders the unique opportunity to work with fellow professionals to improve children and young peoples' writing and reading.

This Train the Trainer course provides all the resources to engage staff to use quality literature to invigorate, stimulate, and explicitly teach students to write engaging stories.

The action research aspect of the course allows you to demonstrate leading teaching and learning; developing self and others and leading improvement, innovation, and change.

All materials will be provided so you can easily conduct the sessions in your school.

Walk away with a package that includes:

6 quality literature texts
13 resource booklets
video interviews and copies of 4 case studies(which can easily be replicated at your school)
video interviews with leading Australian authors - Mark Greenwood and Frane Lessac
all slides, presenters' notes, and resources
access to ongoing support

 

 

Presenters

Kerry Handley (AISWA Staff)

Consultant | Literacy

Kerry Handley <span>(AISWA Staff)</span>

Kerry Handley is a Literacy Consultant with many years of experience. She has worked in the WA education system as a classroom teacher, K-7 district coordinator and a consultant. Before joining AISWA, in 2012, Kerry was part of the team that reconceptualised and wrote the First Steps 2nd Edition resource and associated professional development. In this role she presented to educators around the world and spent four years living in the USA. She is one of the presenters of the Sharp Reading program and has a particular interest in assisting teachers in remote aboriginal schools.

Kerry has a Masters of Education, a Graduate Diploma in Intercultural Studies and a Diploma of Teaching. She is passionate about helping improve literacy outcomes for all students.

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Segments

BrightPath Next Steps

Date / Time

22 Oct 2024 Starts: 09:00 Finishes: 15:00

Delivery Format : In Person

PL Hours : 6.00

Learning Area

  • English

School Area

  • Early Childhood (PK - 2)
  • Middle Primary (3-6)
  • Secondary (7-10)
  • Leadership

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