Kat O’Rourke is doing a series of two free events!

Epic Fluency Instruction - Maths Ninjas

Thursday 11 September at 7:30pm (AEST)

After Serpentine Primary School shared their fluency program (Maths Ninjas), Kat led the development of this into a targeted 15 minute maths fluency block at her school. She is slowly making all 1700+ resources she developed publicly and freely available. Kat believes all students deserve high quality maths fluency instruction - and all teachers deserve the right to high quality resources to support this.

In Session 2, Kat modelled the Ninja Belts (timed testing) system, justified the adaptations made since the original development at Serpentine, and discussed the excitement levels for fluency from the school community. She addressed common misconceptions about delivery, model practical setup and how to reduce the administration time. Kat shared the tracking and assessment systems used to monitor individual student progress and whole-school impact.

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Kat O’Rourke

Kat O’Rourke is a NSW public school teacher, and the recipient of the 2022 NSW Commonwealth Bank Schools Plus Early Career Teacher Award. After completing the La Trobe Master of Education, she began applying the knowledge of cognitive load theory and explicit instruction to mathematics in the Science of Learning Alliance (SoLA) network of schools.

With Amy Telfer and Belinda Harrington, Kat leads a major curriculum project to deliver fully-resourced explicit mathematics curriculum using Ochre and EAST (a major grassroots explicit mathematics curriculum recently profiled by the Grattan Institute) across 47 NSW public schools.