Reid Smith
@smithre5.bsky.social
CoCEO of Ochre Education, an Australian NFP helping to close equity gaps through curriculum development
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🎈Congratulations Dr Smith 🎓! @smithre5.bsky.social @tserry2504.bsky.social @pamelasnow.bsky.social @latrobeuni.bsky.social
May 14, 2025 at 10:50 PM
🎈Congratulations Dr Smith 🎓! @smithre5.bsky.social @tserry2504.bsky.social @pamelasnow.bsky.social @latrobeuni.bsky.social
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A big day for the La Trobe SOLAR Lab team yesterday. We conferred an Honorary Doctorate on @ehanford.bsky.social and welcomed @smithre5.bsky.social into the PhD fold. With @tserry2504.bsky.social and Joanna Barbousas 🌻
May 15, 2025 at 3:03 AM
A big day for the La Trobe SOLAR Lab team yesterday. We conferred an Honorary Doctorate on @ehanford.bsky.social and welcomed @smithre5.bsky.social into the PhD fold. With @tserry2504.bsky.social and Joanna Barbousas 🌻
Currently sitting at the airport in San Fran, waiting to fly home after speaking at the Reading League Summit.
I can’t tell you how great it was. Panels of experts in their fields, often with differing views, discussing the finer point of agreement (and disagreement).
I can’t tell you how great it was. Panels of experts in their fields, often with differing views, discussing the finer point of agreement (and disagreement).
April 25, 2025 at 5:10 AM
Currently sitting at the airport in San Fran, waiting to fly home after speaking at the Reading League Summit.
I can’t tell you how great it was. Panels of experts in their fields, often with differing views, discussing the finer point of agreement (and disagreement).
I can’t tell you how great it was. Panels of experts in their fields, often with differing views, discussing the finer point of agreement (and disagreement).
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Whole-class feedback is better than written comments.
But if AI allows you to produce both very quickly - then why not use both?
Whole-class feedback is better than written comments.
But if AI allows you to produce both very quickly - then why not use both?
But my students like written comments...
Feedback that is accurate, helpful, and doesn't ruin your Sunday evening
t.co
January 27, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Latest from us.
Whole-class feedback is better than written comments.
But if AI allows you to produce both very quickly - then why not use both?
Whole-class feedback is better than written comments.
But if AI allows you to produce both very quickly - then why not use both?
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My new book, Primary Reading Simplified, is released this Monday.
Briefly, I'd like to explain why it exists, who I think will find it useful and where you can find it.
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Briefly, I'd like to explain why it exists, who I think will find it useful and where you can find it.
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January 25, 2025 at 2:23 PM
My new book, Primary Reading Simplified, is released this Monday.
Briefly, I'd like to explain why it exists, who I think will find it useful and where you can find it.
>>
Briefly, I'd like to explain why it exists, who I think will find it useful and where you can find it.
>>
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💡🎧 First ed podcast recommendation of 2025 podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/e...
ERRR #098. Steve Capp on Effective School Leadership
Podcast Episode · Education Research Reading Room · 07/01/2025 · 1h 54m
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January 8, 2025 at 9:10 AM
💡🎧 First ed podcast recommendation of 2025 podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/e...
Movie Night at the Smiths
a close up of a man 's face with his eyes closed and sweat coming out of his nose .
ALT: a close up of a man 's face with his eyes closed and sweat coming out of his nose .
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January 8, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Movie Night at the Smiths
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Newly published in #LSHSS: Some Comply While Some Defy: Elementary Teachers' Responses to Leadership Mandates on Reading Comprehension Instruction pubs.asha.org/doi/10.1044/...
By authors from LaTrobe University @latrobeuni.bsky.social & Edith Cowan University
@sigperspectives.bsky.social
By authors from LaTrobe University @latrobeuni.bsky.social & Edith Cowan University
@sigperspectives.bsky.social
Some Comply While Some Defy: Elementary Teachers' Responses to Leadership Mandates on Reading Comprehension Instruction
Purpose: We report the qualitative findings from a survey of elementary teachers
regarding reading instruction. The purpose is to extend on quant...
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December 28, 2024 at 2:14 AM
Newly published in #LSHSS: Some Comply While Some Defy: Elementary Teachers' Responses to Leadership Mandates on Reading Comprehension Instruction pubs.asha.org/doi/10.1044/...
By authors from LaTrobe University @latrobeuni.bsky.social & Edith Cowan University
@sigperspectives.bsky.social
By authors from LaTrobe University @latrobeuni.bsky.social & Edith Cowan University
@sigperspectives.bsky.social
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You can't use one assessment for multiple purposes - it gets pulled out of shape.
That's what happened to GCSEs when they were used for all kinds of purposes they weren't designed for.
Things are a bit better at secondary now - but what about primary?
That's what happened to GCSEs when they were used for all kinds of purposes they weren't designed for.
Things are a bit better at secondary now - but what about primary?
Designing the perfect assessment system, part 1
What's the point of assessment?
buff.ly
November 27, 2024 at 7:38 AM
You can't use one assessment for multiple purposes - it gets pulled out of shape.
That's what happened to GCSEs when they were used for all kinds of purposes they weren't designed for.
Things are a bit better at secondary now - but what about primary?
That's what happened to GCSEs when they were used for all kinds of purposes they weren't designed for.
Things are a bit better at secondary now - but what about primary?
Radio channel which usually plays rubbish just dropped De La Soul and I almost lost my mind.
November 24, 2024 at 7:02 AM
Radio channel which usually plays rubbish just dropped De La Soul and I almost lost my mind.
🌟 Introduce yourself with some jobs you have done apart from what you do now:
1. Fast food employee
2. Mining surveyor
3. Internet cafe manager
4. Research immunologist (briefly)
5. Silver service waiter
6. Tour guide at a gaol for the criminally insane
1. Fast food employee
2. Mining surveyor
3. Internet cafe manager
4. Research immunologist (briefly)
5. Silver service waiter
6. Tour guide at a gaol for the criminally insane
🌟 Introduce yourself with some jobs you have done apart from what you do now:
1. Bank teller
2. Hotel receptionist
3. Answering service telephonist
4. Nurse
5. Phlebotomist
6. Primary school teacher
7. Secondary school specialist reading teacher
1. Bank teller
2. Hotel receptionist
3. Answering service telephonist
4. Nurse
5. Phlebotomist
6. Primary school teacher
7. Secondary school specialist reading teacher
OK.
1. Babysitter
2. Bardardos volunteer
3. Curtain shop sales advisor
4. VIDES International volunteer
5. Fishmonger
6. Research assistant
1. Babysitter
2. Bardardos volunteer
3. Curtain shop sales advisor
4. VIDES International volunteer
5. Fishmonger
6. Research assistant
November 16, 2024 at 12:21 PM
🌟 Introduce yourself with some jobs you have done apart from what you do now:
1. Fast food employee
2. Mining surveyor
3. Internet cafe manager
4. Research immunologist (briefly)
5. Silver service waiter
6. Tour guide at a gaol for the criminally insane
1. Fast food employee
2. Mining surveyor
3. Internet cafe manager
4. Research immunologist (briefly)
5. Silver service waiter
6. Tour guide at a gaol for the criminally insane
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Good points here on decline of literature (and humanities). I would agree that, being an international phenomenon, this is unlikely to be linked to any particular curriculum or assessment policy (and it’s not like the maths or science curricula have suddenly become more student-friendly).
A lot of discussion lately about the reasons for the decline of Eng Lit A-level.
Are the Gove curriculum & exam reforms to blame?
I don't think so, because the decline of Eng Lit / the humanities more broadly is a global trend.
More here.
Are the Gove curriculum & exam reforms to blame?
I don't think so, because the decline of Eng Lit / the humanities more broadly is a global trend.
More here.
The fall of Eng Lit
What is the cause, is it a problem - and if so, what can we do about it?
buff.ly
November 16, 2024 at 11:53 AM
Good points here on decline of literature (and humanities). I would agree that, being an international phenomenon, this is unlikely to be linked to any particular curriculum or assessment policy (and it’s not like the maths or science curricula have suddenly become more student-friendly).
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Today’s poem is called ‘An Invention of Collective Nouns’.
![An Invention of Collective Nouns
A reckoning of spreadsheets.
A distraction of smartphones.
A prattle of podcasts.
A mispronunciation of scones.
A clique of photographers.
A heard of precedents.
An enjambment of
poets. A grope of presidents.
A pile of haemorrhoids.
A bunion of personal trainers.
A bout of estimations.
A condescension of mansplainers.
A stroke of geniuses.
A spot of adolescents.
An embarrassment of Richards.
A collection [crossed out] correction of pedants.
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November 13, 2024 at 9:16 AM
Today’s poem is called ‘An Invention of Collective Nouns’.
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The American teaching union AfT has a great journal, American Educator, with free summarised versions of some really seminal papers (Sweller, Kirschner and Clark, Rosenshine, Willingham, and Dunlosky are the biggies). Quick reads, snappy summaries, great to share with teachers
September 4, 2024 at 8:00 AM
The American teaching union AfT has a great journal, American Educator, with free summarised versions of some really seminal papers (Sweller, Kirschner and Clark, Rosenshine, Willingham, and Dunlosky are the biggies). Quick reads, snappy summaries, great to share with teachers
I am gutted to be on the opposite side of the world to #researchED this weekend.
September 4, 2024 at 10:12 AM
I am gutted to be on the opposite side of the world to #researchED this weekend.
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“Factor” in maths and “Factory” in not maths have the same root etymologically. In essence they both refer to components that build towards something else.
Here ends today’s reading.
Here ends today’s reading.
September 1, 2024 at 12:10 PM
“Factor” in maths and “Factory” in not maths have the same root etymologically. In essence they both refer to components that build towards something else.
Here ends today’s reading.
Here ends today’s reading.
Movie Night at the Smiths
a woman looking at herself in a mirror with the words " i think she 's fabulous " below her
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August 31, 2024 at 11:43 PM
Movie Night at the Smiths
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Brilliant as ever from @claresealy.bsky.social. ⬇️
Just posted new blog on Bluesky and not (yet) on Twitter. Be interesting to see engagement. Will I fold and put it on Twitter too? Please help me avoid the temptation by reposting here!
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August 26, 2024 at 10:05 AM
Brilliant as ever from @claresealy.bsky.social. ⬇️
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This one is a cracker
August 14, 2024 at 10:35 AM
This one is a cracker
Just arrived over here from X. No friends just yet!
August 14, 2024 at 7:36 AM
Just arrived over here from X. No friends just yet!