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…Maya Mulhall, a public high school teacher from Victoria! Maya is the sixth annual recipient of the $15,000 Reading Australia Fellowship.

Our write-up of our time in Adelaide for the 2024 AATE/ALEA National Conference (10–13 July)!

Applications for the 2024 Reading Australia Fellowship – which supports an experienced English and literacy teacher or teacher librarian – close at 1pm on Monday 27 May.

We went to the AATE/ALEA National Conference in Canberra last month. Here’s a short summary of what we got up to during our trip!

Bridget Forster, Head of Kerferd Library and VCE Literature Teacher at Mentone Girls’ Grammar School! Bridget’s project will focus on using AI generated texts in the English classroom to interrogate the notion of an Australian literary voice.

Supporting professional skills development and career-enhancing opportunities for English and literacy teachers and teacher librarians.

Following the success of last year’s inaugural Literature Symposium, the Foundation for Learning and Literacy has brought together an even bigger group of like-minded organisations to advocate for the power and pleasure of stories!

The full article, which contains links to Edwina’s website and other useful resources, is freely available from Teacher’s website.

The Reading Australia team flew to Darwin for the AATE/ALEA National Conference in July – here’s what they got up to!

…Jantiena Batt from the ACT Education Directorate, whose project aims to ensure access to literature that is both a window and mirror for children.