Cheryl Fortini

We hear about scaffolding a lot in education, but what does it really look like in the classroom? Here are *5 ways* to build it into your practice.

3 Ways to Encourage ‘Coasting’ Students to Reach Their Full Potential | Edutopia. Great article ⁦@mmcdowell13⁩ ! edutopia.org/article/3-ways…

In case you missed this little personal 7-minute tribute to the life and work of Sir Ken Robinson, here it comes again: "Imagine if...". If you like it, share it! youtube.com/watch?v=1iEp_8…

Daily presser over. Back to reading. I am enjoying this book.

I’ve been looking forward to reading this new book from the Transforming Schools crew for a long time. That’s me sorted for the week ahead :)

Holy Family Primary welcomes you youtu.be/aJCR3j0VlG0 via @YouTube

I love the use of sentence strips to explain the links between key concepts. #deep @mmcdowell13 @mrskirbyrules1 @MonicaOfficer #visiblethinking

Hattie “We've just looked at 17k transcripts of teachers teaching. 2 things became clear: we could not find, across the 17k classrooms, 1 occasion when the teacher taught a strategy of learning, nor did we see any teaching of transfer” interesting 🤔 tes.com/news/john-hatt…

Yr 4 sts from HFS using the text from @auscaths australiancatholics.com.au/article/harry-… in their l/cycle 'Who are our heroes?' Gr8 way to unpack and define the virtues and make connections to the heroes they have studied @scarroll_cedp @cherylfortini #7heavenlyvirtues

Sts @ HFS Granville East living the 3H paradigm by responding to @VinniesNSW with baskets of poppers & chips 4 the homeless @CatholicEdParra @cherylfortini @scarroll_cedp

HFS Granville’s FIAT group led today’s 1st prayer experience w/ other schools @ABentleyCEDP @scarroll_cedp Gr8 reflection and wonderings posed for this Sunday’s Gospel

Kindy Blue at St. Joseph's, Kingswood is looking for an exciting, dedicated and caring teacher to help us to learn. We are a happy, enthusiastic and clever group of children who always try our best. Please email preilly@parra.catholic.edu.au

“Is it about the journey or the destination?” It’s a question the Year Five students at Holy Family Primary School, East Granville were keen to explore. Along the way, they created a wonderful prayer resource. catholicoutlook.org/children-show-…

Great reminder from @robert_nastasi 😊🍷👨‍👩‍👧‍👧

@CatholicEdParra Holy Family Granville students plan an outdoor classroom applying their algorithm knowledge and utilising 3D software @tinkercad to create a 3D visualisation learningwithbotsandcode.blogspot.com/2020/10/planni… @cherylfortini @mrchrismaguire @NicoleSprainger

Great new video based and other resources for #computationalthinking via @hellorubyworld and @ClickViewAU learningwithbotsandcode.blogspot.com/2020/10/comput… #coding

Our Stage 2 team are experimenting with co-constructing Bump It Up walls for writing. The students are self assessing against the criteria and have begun to develop their skills in giving feedback on their peers writing. #clarity @LynSharratt @LynchSlynch @LismLearnTeach

An ode to living on Earth (Oliver Jeffers | TED2020: The Prequel) ted.com/talks/oliver_j… via @TEDTalks

#Toast2Teachers As you think of all those keeping our society functioning at this time consider teachers who are not only doing MORE but have totally TRANSFORMED their practice. Please retweet and invite others to join this hashtag of appreciation.

A Quiet Defender, a wonderful colleague and a terrific educator. That is our Andrew Emanuel. catholicweekly.com.au/a-quiet-defend… via @catholic_weekly @CHISHOLM_BP @parracatholic @CatholicEdParra