2010 has been a busy year so far, just some of the highlights have been:
1. Working long term with schools in Queensland conducting regular PD sessions focussing on topics that have emerged from their analysis of NAPLAN results. We find this approach works well as it provides regular contact and feedback and enables us to address issues that are of critical importance to the school concerned.
2. In March we are conducting a full day workshop on Multiliteracies with the Association of Independent Schools Victoria (AISV) in Melbourne
4. The long long term (18 month) Action Learning Project with the AISV on changing pedagogies through multiliteracies continues. This project involves working with groups of teachers from five Independent schools in Melbourne and surrounds as they identify and carry out an action learning project and investigate their pedagogy.
5. We will be keynote speakers and workshop presenters at the Riverina Region Teaching and Learning Conference in Albury on 29 and 30 March run by the NSW Department of Education
6. We have just completed our next book Evolving Pedagogies : Reading and Writing in a Multimodal World. It will be published in June by the Curriculum Corporation/Education Services Australia.
7.We will be presenting papers at the IRA World Congress on Reading in
Auckland New Zealand in July.
8. We will be returning to Melbourne in July to work with a number of schools and to finish the AISV long term project.
Recent highlights have been:
1. Traveling to New Zealand to conduct professional development in various towns on the North and South Islands for the New Zealand Reading Association.
2. The launch of our research report Finding the Gaps: Navigating Sustainable Learning Future for Indigenous Students in the Darling Downs and South West it is available at http://www.learningplace.com.au/uploads/documents/store/resources/res_41211_Finding_the _Gaps_2009.pdf