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Core PL Courses and All About Mentors Series, 2025

Register here! Please note, invoices will be generated and sent following registration.

 

If you are registering for multiple people at a school, you will be prompted to enter the number for each course (and their names). As such, you can register multiple people at a time, but need to do so within each course. Once registered, you will receive an acknowledgement email. We'll do the maths (boo!) and send an invoice soon after. You may like to access our Print and Plan doc to see all courses on one page, if that's helpful. It also offers scenarios for how schools might create a plan to meet the needs of their school and teachers. If you have any questions, don't hesitate to get in touch.

All professional learning is charged at a flat rate of $40/hour/person. We are happy to facilitate swaps for individuals between courses (when possible), and swaps between people within schools if the need arises. 

  • 13 Feb 2025, 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
    Location TBC, Canberra ACT, Australia
    This workshop will share a way to assess writing and collect school data at three points across the year. We will look at what, why and how Interim Assessments align with this approach to writing, utilising a tool to support planning and assessment, and sharing additional resources for schools.
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  • 21 Feb 2025, 9:00 am – 3:00 pm
    Location TBC, Canberra ACT, Australia
    Looking for an overview? This course is a great option to gain a broad overview of this pedagogy and learn how to get started in your classroom. We will dip into the workshop, process, craft and conferencing in a BIG day of learning.
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  • 28 Feb 2025, 9:00 am – 12:00 pm
    Location TBC, Canberra ACT, Australia
    A Writers' Worksop offers a predictable routine and essential lesson elements to allow a community of writers to flourish. We will unpack all of this, plus the key tools that a workshop provides, including writer's notebooks, writing partners, mentor texts and visual anchors.
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  • 28 Feb 2025, 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
    Location TBC, Canberra ACT, Australia
    This session allows those with basic knowledge of the workshop to engage with resources and spend scaffolded time considering implementation, and ongoing support for teachers at a school level.
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  • 28 Mar 2025, 9:00 am – 12:00 pm
    Location TBC, Canberra ACT, Australia
    Process supports writers to be ready to write, and to keep on writing. It's central to the workshop, and a vital avenue for teaching craft. It provides a scaffold for student choice and autonomy. This course is all about HOW - the strategies our students need to be writers.
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  • 28 Mar 2025, 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
    Location TBC, Canberra ACT, Australia
    This session allows those with basic knowledge of process to spend scaffolded time engaging with resources, and planning for how to introduce process at a classroom or school level. We will share resources to support this work.
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  • 08 May 2025, 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
    Location TBC, Canberra ACT, Australia
    This session will unpack the resources needed at a classroom and school level to support students and teachers, considering planning, teaching and learning. Participants will consider their own setting and options that could work.
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  • 09 May 2025, 9:00 am – 11:00 am
    Location TBC, Canberra ACT, Australia
    This course is for K-2 teachers who are still very much teaching students the skills to be able write...and there are many of them! We will discuss the key aspects of writing development alongside the resources to scaffold teaching and learning.
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  • 09 May 2025, 11:30 am – 1:30 pm
    Location TBC, Canberra ACT, Australia
    This session will look at how to balance the essential elements of the literacy block in K-2, knowing we need to teach the skills to write alongside time to be a writer. Presented in collaboration with Fiona Hamilton (www.wordtorque.com).
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  • 23 May 2025, 9:00 am – 12:00 pm
    Location TBC, Canberra ACT, Australia
    The qualities of great writing, or author's craft, start with great ideas, and end with conventions. In this course, we unpack these qualities using mentor texts and writing samples, and learn to look at writing through the eyes of a writer. We will also share tools that are available to support.
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  • 23 May 2025, 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
    Location TBC, Canberra ACT, Australia
    This session offers those with some knowledge of writers' craft (or the qualities of great writing) time to consider continuums that build teacher knowledge, and are also tools to moderate writing. We will consider school implementation, and scaffold the learning staff will need to succeed.
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  • 19 June 2025, 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
    Location TBC, Canberra ACT, Australia
    Good planning is vital to good teaching. This session will outline strategies to plan across a year, a term, a unit of study, and a week at a classroom level, and also look at ways to support across the school to be sure skills develop and writing is engaging from K-6.
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  • 01 Aug 2025, 9:00 am – 12:00 pm
    Location TBC, Canberra ACT, Australia
    A writing conference is fundamentally a conversation between two writers. But did you know there are different types of conferences, with routines and roles that support both teachers and students? We will look at how to create a climate for conferencing, as a vital first step.
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  • 01 Aug 2025, 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
    Location TBC, Canberra ACT, Australia
    This session allows those with some knowledge of conferencing to learn more! We will engage with resources and spend scaffolded time focused on how to lead and support others to implement conferencing at a team or school level. Conferencing takes time and skill, it's worth more learning.
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  • 21 Aug 2025, 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
    Location TBC, Canberra ACT, Australia
    This session looks at the qualities of imaginative writing and the key skills that grow from K-6. We will look at the variety of forms imaginative writing and publishing can take, with the hope of inspiring creativity in planning.
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  • 11 Sept 2025, 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
    Location TBC, Canberra ACT, Australia
    This session looks at the qualities of informative writing and the key skills that grow from K-6. We will look at the variety of forms informative writing and publishing can take, with the hope of inspiring creativity in planning for ourselves and across our schools.
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  • 16 Oct 2025, 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
    Location TBC, Canberra ACT, Australia
    This session will look at reasons and remedies for disengaged writers. There's no simple answer, but we will share strategies, resources and approaches to support students and teachers. This session will be one of collaboration...and is one we hope nobody needs!
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  • 23 Oct 2025, 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
    Location TBC, Canberra ACT, Australia
    This session looks at the qualities of persuasive writing and the key skills that grow from K-6. We will look at the variety of forms persuasive writing and publishing can take, with the hope of inspiring creativity in planning for classrooms and across our schools.
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