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Partnering with schools to refine and enhance AERO’s School Writing Instruction Framework: Case study

This case study shares AERO’s learnings from working with schools to trial and develop our School Writing Instruction Framework.

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Escalated behaviour: Creating calm, focused classrooms

This practice guide will assist teachers with creating calm learning environments, helping to prevent emotional and behavioural escalation, and supporting students when it does occur.

Persistent disengaged and disruptive behaviour: Creating calm, focused classrooms

This practice guide will assist teachers in supporting students to focus on learning when a range of factors impact their engagement and attention and lead to persistent disengagement and disruption across multiple lessons.

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Building an effective team and a specific implementation goal: Leading implementation

This module provides schools with an introduction to leading the implementation of evidence-based teaching practices through an effective school implementation team.

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Building and operating an effective school implementation team: Leading implementation

This practice resource is designed to help school leaders form and maintain an implementation team to drive successful implementation efforts in their school.

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Meeting regularly as a school implementation team for success: Leading implementation

This practice resource and meeting agenda template is designed to help school implementation teams stay focused on the components of a deliberate and structured approach to implementation.

Building and operating an effective implementation team at Mount Hutton Public School

This video shares a school implementation team's experiences using a deliberate and structured approach to embed explicit instruction at their school.

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Example of a secondary school implementation plan

This example has been created as a supporting resource for secondary school implementation teams to refer to when developing their own implementation plans.

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Writing paragraphs

This practice guide will help teachers and school leaders understand different paragraph types. It’s part of a suite of resources designed to support explicit writing instruction in the classroom. It can be used in conjunction with AERO’s guides on simple sentences, compound sentences, complex sentences and sentence combining.

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AERO's writing instruction model

This model introduces an approach to teaching writing that is explicit and systematic, and that can be used in all subject areas that require students to write. AERO’s School Writing Instruction Framework (SWIF) professional learning courses align with and support the implementation of this model.

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Leading writing instruction in your school

Students' ability to write – and write well – across subjects is important for their success at school. This practice resource will help school leaders lead an approach to strengthening writing instruction at their schools, using AERO’s School Writing Instruction professional learning courses.

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Embedding effective writing assessment practices

As part of AERO’s School Writing Instruction Framework (SWIF), this professional learning course aims to support school leaders and teachers in delivering evidence-based writing instruction across all subject areas in upper primary and secondary classrooms.