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A Free App to Help Parents Practice Learning at Home
Grow is a free app with no sign-up required — just open it, pick your child's year level, and get simple activities you can do together at home.
The Digital Tools I Actually Use Every Day as a Teacher
Not the tools I've bookmarked to try later, but the ones that have earned a permanent spot in how I run my classroom. From Google Classroom to the apps I built myself.
Formative Assessment Without the Paperwork
Formative assessment sounds simple until you try to do it consistently. Here's how to capture what you're already observing without the checklists, data entry, and admin.
Why Nobody Logs Behaviour (And How to Fix It)
Schools tell teachers to log behaviour, then give them systems that make it nearly impossible to do consistently. Here's why the current approach fails and what logging should actually look like.
5 Spelling Activities I Actually Use in My Classroom
These are the spelling activities I keep coming back to because they actually work and my students genuinely engage with them. From YouTube games to SoundWaves warm-ups to SpellTally practice.
The Problem With Traditional Spelling Tests (And What to Do Instead)
Testing spelling properly takes forever. One-on-one sessions eat your literacy block, partner testing loses the insight, and the paperwork never ends. Here's why I built something different.
Why I Built My Own Teacher Apps — A Primary Teacher's Story
I'm a Grade 5 teacher in rural Victoria who accidentally became an app developer. Here's how it happened.