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We look at strategies for engaging in sustained shared conversations with children aged 3-5 years, using examples of educators and teachers using moments in the day to build children’s literacy skills.

Nobody knows more about students’ learning needs than their teachers and educators. So how should teachers and educators respond to research evidence about effective practice that is broad and does not appear to take account of contextual factors?

The Australian Education Research Organisation (AERO) is looking for educators, teachers and leaders from Australian schools and early childhood education and care (ECEC) services to prioritise and shape its research and resources.

Partnering with Learning First, we investigated issues influencing the effective use of evidence in policy development through a desktop review and interviews with senior policymakers.

Partnering with Learning First, we investigated issues influencing the effective use of evidence in policy development through a desktop review and interviews with senior policymakers.

This report aims to guide and catalyse further work towards building a better early childhood education and care (ECEC) system to serve all Australian children and families.

There is broad consensus in the research community that certain practices such as formative assessment and explicit instruction improve student outcomes. But these practices are often complex and hard to implement, involving many different elements.

This rubric outlines a set of capabilities to do with the evidence-based practice of explicit instruction.

This resource outlines some strategies to embed early numeracy in your early childhood education and care setting.

A tool to help you use evidence to make decisions about a new or existing practice or program based on AERO’s standards of evidence.

A tool to help you use evidence to make decisions about a new or existing policy, program or other initiative based on AERO’s standards of evidence.