Choose a writing focus your team can act on

Move from a broad improvement priority to one teachable skill and a useful check-in.

School Leadership8 September 20261 min read

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Begin with the writing skill your team wants to understand. Use a selection of recent, anonymised samples to test whether that need is shared across classes. Keep differences between year levels and tasks visible.

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Choose a teaching approach, a short time frame, and the evidence teachers will bring back. Discuss what changed in the work and what still needs attention. Avoid treating a single comparison as proof of a whole-school trend.

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