Drawing from her broad range of experience in various school settings and her PhD research, Karina presents us with practical ideas and provocations for how multi-tiered systems of support (MTSS) are implemented within school. As Karina says, MTSS is more than “a triangle of tiered supports”, and instead guides us to use implementation science to investigate the state of MTSS in our own school contexts, and plot a way towards sustainable roll-out.

Stephanie Dehghani is the Assistant Principal at Templestowe Heights Primary School, and her work there focuses on securing strong MTSS structures and processes at the school.

Stephanie began the webinar explaining why she has a passion in this area of education, borne out of both growing up, and working within disadvantaged communities, where disadvantage at home was often seen as the reason for poor learning outcomes.

In his webinar Why Maths Lesson Fail and How to Make Success Inevitable, Brendan Lee begins by calling to mind the struggles that many of us have felt in classrooms. Namely, the fact that teaching is complex, and that a teacher has to balance behaviour management, pedagogical choices, and contingent decision making while standing in front of a (sometimes less than captive…) audience. It is not surprising then that we sometimes walk away feeling like a lesson did not have the intended impact. So how can we, as educators, optimise instruction and walk out feeling proud and confident of the fact that our students have learnt something?

Heather Fearn’s webinar, Developing a Knowledge-Rich Subject Curriculum outlined some of the key ideas that schools and teachers should consider and understand when enacting a knowledge-rich approach to curriculum.