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INTERESTED IN CLASSROOM OR SCHOOL-WIDE LITERACY SUCCESS?
PROFESSIONAL LEARNING BASED ON THE LATEST RESEARCH JUST GOT EASIER. ACCESS ESSENTIAL TRAINING, ADVICE & SUPPORT TO NURTURE AND DEVELOP HIGH QUALITY TEACHING PRACTICES.
Need help with teaching literacy at your school?
School Leaders . . . Does Any Of This Apply To You?
- Your goal is to increase the collective efficacy of your teaching team, but you have teachers with varying needs and levels of experience within your team.
- You have high performing teachers seeking to extend their knowledge, and you must provide relevant, research-based, ongoing professional learning opportunities to extend and enhance their capabilities and ongoing commitment.
- You want consistent high yield teaching practices implemented across the school, but teaching practices differ within and across year levels.
- You have students of varying needs and want your teachers to make informed judgements about pedagogy, skills, and learners to effectively deliver high quality instruction.
- Your goal is for all teachers to identify and narrow in on skills for teaching but are unsure about how effectively data is informing teaching content.
- You know the importance of monitoring, feedback, and goal setting to student achievement, but observe this occurs to varying degrees across classrooms.
- You want focused, explicit teaching for harder-to-teach students to occur in classrooms by classroom teachers, but you understand many teachers may not have been trained to plan for and facilitate instruction for struggling students.
- You provide literacy PD every year, but as staff come and go, you feel like you are constantly starting over.
- You have teachers’ aides involved in teaching students, and you must ensure these team members are adequately upskilled to facilitate reading and writing groups.
- You have teachers wanting resources for reading, writing and oral language, but you want practical materials which are research-based and easy to implement with large and small groups.
- You have teachers with challenges and questions, but you don’t know how to source quick, accessible answers.
- You know there is existing and emerging literacy research which should inform practices, but you recognise not all teachers have access to the breadth of research or how it all fits together.
Educators . . . Does Any Of This Apply To You?
- You are busy and need a resource library to access ideas and classroom resources which can be used immediately.
- You need a range of practical tasks which connect to your teaching cycle and which support students to apply their learning.
- You want to increase the achievement levels within your classroom but need support to cater for students with varying needs and levels of knowledge.
- You know of many reading approaches and want to determine which will produce the best outcomes for your students.
- You have high performing students and struggling students in your classroom, and you want to provide relevant, research-based, ongoing learning opportunities for all.
- You face the challenges of time, classroom organisation and different levels of student motivation and want practical and research-based ideas to manage these.
- You know the importance of monitoring, feedback, and goal setting to student achievement, and want to embed these across all instructional episodes.
- You have support personnel, and you want to make the most of these valuable team members.
- You know there is existing and emerging literacy research, and you want tips and ideas about how to translate this to the classroom.
- You attend literacy PD, but still have questions you want answered.
- You are new to teaching and need support, guidance and mentoring from others.
- You are experienced and skilful and want to extend your repertoire of practices.
- You want to assist, support, and encourage others to grow their knowledge and expertise.
- You are a passionate educator, and you want a safe place to connect with like-minded colleagues.
If it does, then you already know the value of quality PD, advice & support, AND the challenges of sustaining ongoing professional dialogue and focus over time.
THAT’S WHAT INSPIRED US TO BUILD THIS COMMUNITY
- We understand:
- the need for individual and whole staff literacy training
- periodic, one-off professional learning has a limited impact on outcomes
- the importance of maintaining a high level of professional dialogue to sustaining focus and continuing growth
- learnings not actioned within the first few weeks of professional development are unlikely to be actioned at all
- the most effective teachers of literacy maintain an active interest in what’s new, what works and how to continue to improve
LTA will support individuals and groups to:
- challenge ideas, ask questions, and share experiences
- grow exponentially as part of a vibrant community of like-minded professionals who continue to learn
- inspire others, and view challenges as opportunities, not problems or excuses.
Introducing the
Literacy Teachers’ Academy
It’s a membership for teachers of students aged 5 to 12!
And it’s packed with in-depth, practical training and resources on all aspects of planning and delivering, high quality reading, writing, and spelling instruction to students.
LTA will also provide the community support teachers need to reach their full potential.
THE ACADEMY WILL HELP YOU TO:
Develop highly skilled teaching staff with knowledge of best practice pedagogy.
Motivate learning amongst your teachers that improves their teaching practice and heightens motivation.
Develop wholistic, coordinated and consistent literacy strategies across your school.
Provide a range of live and on-demand learning and resources on a vast range of topics.
Tap into the collective knowledge & experience of a community of passionate literacy teachers and experts who support each other.
Become infinitely better at managing your school’s literacy needs, so that you have more time and less stress.
WHAT MAKES THE LITERACY TEACHERS’ ACADEMY DIFFERENT?
Access to expertise
Tap into our 25+ years’ experience in the industry and a proven track record of helping teachers to dramatically improve their practice.
We walk the talk
Our training and resources are research based and tested and are designed to be practical and easy to implement.
Peer support
With an ever-growing membership, the Academy community is there to promptly answer your questions and provide feedback and support.
Look over our shoulder
Members tell us they learn a lot from watching us teach - the Academy features examples to demonstrate best practice.
Caring and Supportive Environment
We’re mindful the learning process can be intimidating and our commitment to members is to ensure our community is a safe place to ask questions and learn, without the judgement or bullying that can be experienced in some environments.
Our full commitment
We eat, sleep, and breathe literacy. The Academy is our primary focus, and we love helping our members achieve success. It's our passion, and it our mission to meet your needs!
MEET THE TEAM
- Angela
- Stevie
- Ash
- David
- Sarah
Hi, we’re your team at the “Literacy Teachers’ Academy”. You may know us from our consultancy work with Literacy Solutions. We’ve spent years guiding the growth of thousands of literacy educators since 2004.
With a combined xxxxx+ years in the primary education industry and over 18 years consulting across sectors and writing and consulting with publishers, we have a proven track record of helping great teachers to achieve fantastic results.
In 2022 we decided to take all that knowledge and experience and create the Literacy Teachers’ Academy so that we could unite and support the most passionate literacy educators, because we know they will inspire and lead others. The Academy has become our primary focus and we seriously love spending our days supporting our members!
HELP AT EVERY STAGE OF YOUR TEACHING JOURNEY
All Individual members get access to:
Library of professional learning videos
Our Principal Consultant, Angela Ehmer delivers pre-recorded video presentations for educators to take your teaching of literacy to a new level. Our videos cater for teachers aiming to enhance their skills and improve the learning outcomes for their students
Regardless of your location or access to professional learning, our videos will provide you with the highest quality literacy learning.
Library of resources (incl. Toolkit)
We provide quality teaching resources to accelerate the acquisition of language and literacy. Our library includes over xxx resources containing more than xxxx documents.
We’re in constant development of even more resources based on the expressed needs of our members.
And our members are here to help too, by sharing quality resources with the LTA community.
All School members get access to the content listed above plus:
Staff meeting video PD
Have a desire to get consistency across your school on key deliverables? Our ‘Staff meeting video PDs’ are just the answer. Specially developed to watch as a group during staff meetings, these sessions will ensure you’re all on the same page.
- Online courses
- Workshops on demand
PLUS
ALL ACADEMY MEMBERS GET ACCESS TO:
Immediate access to our full training archive
We have a huge library of content for you to dive straight into as soon as you join, from full courses on topics ranging from Literature Circles to Guided Reading, to quick win Q & As on a range of topics. Then there’s expert workshops that deep dive on a range of specific areas.
Learn what you need, when you need to, from wherever you want.
A thriving, supportive community of peers
Our community is the heart of the Academy and the place to go for answers to your questions, to get feedback, gain support or inspiration, or simply get to know other like-minded teachers of literacy.
We may be biased, but we happen to think our members are amazing with a wide range of skills and expertise. They make the Academy forum an incredible resource to grow knowledge, share ideas and gain inspiration.
Access to live webinars & Q&A
And not only do we have our private forum – you can also connect with fellow teachers on our Live Webinars, Mastermind Huddles, Club Webinars too.
Teaching prompts & independent learning tasks
We provide all the resources we can to help you implement what you learn and make managing student learning as easy as possible. This includes:
- Writing prompts and discussion guides for creative, informative, and persuasive writing.
- Comprehension prompts and discussion guides to promote predicting, connecting, inferring, determining relevance to main ideas, visualising, synthesising.
- Oral language prompts and discussion guides to build vocabulary, grammar knowledge and content knowledge for beginning readers and writers, second language learners and struggling students.
- Independent learning tasks linked to the reading of texts and which support students to transfer and generalise their learnings from topic to topic and text to text.
- Blackline masters to support student application and mastery rather than ‘busy work’!
Plus, a lot more inside our resource library
...All of this and much more ONLY inside the Academy
30 Day No Questions Asked Money Back Guarantee
When you join the Literacy Teachers’ Academy you are fully protected by our 100% Satisfaction Guarantee. If you don’t feel like you’ve received value and you decide you want to cancel any time within the first 30 days, just let us know and we’ll send you a prompt refund. No hassles, headaches, or hoops to jump through.
We’re confident that you’ll find the Literacy Teachers’ Academy useful, and we won’t make you beg or invoke any silly rules or conditions – if you’re not satisfied within your first 30 days then we’ll refund you without any fuss.
Get Instant Access to the Academy!
If you’re ready to take your teaching to the next level by joining the Literacy Teachers’ Academy, simply choose your payment option below and click the button to join us…
PAY MONTHLY
PER MONTH
Recurring payment – cancel anytime
Hassle-free 30-day money back guarantee
* Note: qualify for the discounted ‘school rate’ membership by joining a minimum of 85% of your teaching staff. A minimum annual charge of $250 applies
PAY ANNUALLY
PER YEAR
BEST VALUE: Save $50 when you join on an annual subscription!
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NOT SURE IF THE LITERACY TEACHERS’ ACADEMY IS RIGHT FOR YOU?
The Literacy Teachers’ Academy is NOT for everyone, and truth be told we’d prefer to help you figure out if it’s not right for you BEFORE you join. So, let’s consider…
WHO THE ACADEMY IS FOR
- Highly motivated teachers of P to Year 6 who wish to continually improve their teaching skills in a supportive and safe learning environment.
- School administrators who wish to provide their teaching staff with high quality and comprehensive learning and support in literacy without breaking the PD budget.
- Teachers and schools who recognise they are on a learning journey and want to take that journey with like-minded, motivated colleagues.
- Action takers who aren’t just going to watch some training videos and never implement. We provide the training and resources, but you still need to do the work!
- Communicators and networkers who wish to share their knowledge and experiences and like to pick the brains of others.
WHO THE ACADEMY IS NOT FOR
- Teachers wishing to get their minimum required learning hours up for the year. The multitude of varying endorsement organisations and mechanisms means it isn’t viable to have our material certified by all authorising bodies.
- Teachers looking for ‘busy work’ for their students. Quality teaching requires commitment, effort, and energy. There are no shortcuts! If you didn’t teach it, it is probably ‘busy work’.
- Anyone looking for a quick fix or not willing to dedicate time to their own professional learning. We provide the resources and the environment, but you still need to dedicate your time to participate and learn.
- Unprofessionalism. There is a zero-tolerance policy for criticism and bullying. Member comments on LTA are monitored and any reports of offensive or hurtful behaviour taken seriously. Memberships WILL be cancelled for deliberate noncompliance with our expectations of professional behaviour.
WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING ABOUT US
Frequently Asked Questions
Join today and start your journey to literacy success in your classroom and across your school. Our membership fees are grandfathered, meaning you’ll never incur a price increase, provided your maintain continuous membership.
It’s great you are doing well. Over the years, many schools we have supported have been amongst the top achievers in the country. These schools appreciate the importance of ensuring all students reach their full potential and acknowledge their students are likely to learn more easily than others. Some have students able to read on entry to the foundation year and many students likely to achieve well regardless of the quality of their teachers. These schools understand the importance of teacher expertise and the necessity for these teachers to plan relevant, meaningful instruction for naturally, high achieving students.
Members can access all content immediately and new content will be uploaded every fortnight. The content library will continue to grow, so members will never ‘run out’ of resources on the site. LTA encourages members to tell us what they would like, and our projects will be guided by the most popular member requests.
We endeavour to meet the needs of our members by responding to questions submitted through the Member Q & A. We will identify questions based on popularity and create short video responses each week or fortnight. We will also add comments to the Members’ Forum.
We understand LTA may not be for you. Just advise in writing 14 days prior to your next billing cycle, and your membership will be cancelled, and no further payments will apply.
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If you have purchased a yearly membership, a refund for the unused portion of your membership will be calculated from the date your membership began. For example, if you joined on 16 January and wish to cancel on 4 August, your membership will end on 16 August and no further payments will apply.
You will no longer be a member of LTA. We will retain your profile details for a limited time in case you:
- change your mind and want to come back
- lose your membership because you change schools and wish to retain your profile details for your new school membership.
We are sorry we cannot store your details indefinitely.
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You are invited to trial LTA for 30-days at no charge. During this time, you will have access some of what is available within each of our content areas. You will be able to read the forum and community contributions, but you will not be able to participate. By the end of the trial period, you should understand what LTA provides and whether it is suitable for you.
If there’s anything at all that you’re not certain about, any concerns or questions then please do contact us at hello@literacyteachersacademy.com and we’ll help you out.
Create an environment of learning at your school
Sign up for a free trial!
Check out the Literacy Teachers’ Academy for FREE with a 1 month trial. Access samples of all content and view the collegial community forum. Note: posting to the forum is for full-members only.
Simply sign up for our 1 month Free Trial to experience the benefits of learning with a community of literacy teachers! You will then be moved onto our monthly plan to continue to develop your teaching expertise! If you don’t love us, just cancel within the first 30 days and you won’t be charged.
Get Instant Access to the Academy!
If you’re ready to take your teaching to the next level by joining the Literacy Teachers’ Academy, simply choose your payment option below and click the button to join us…
PAY MONTHLY
PER MONTH
Recurring payment – cancel anytime
Hassle-free 30-day money back guarantee
* Note: qualify for the discounted ‘school rate’ membership by joining a minimum of 85% of your teaching staff. A minimum annual charge of $250 applies
PAY ANNUALLY
PER YEAR
BEST VALUE: Save $50 when you join on an annual subscription!
Hassle-free 30-day money back guarantee
Secure Checkout | Satisfaction Guarantee | Privacy Protected
