NPP and Focus on Reading

I have had a question from an overseas colleague regarding National Partnerships and Focus on Reading 3-6.

One question that is easy to answer is ‘where do you buy the Focus on reading kit?’ – The answer is, it is not a kit.  It is a paradigm shift in thinking about how we teach reading and comprehension.  The content focuses on teacher pedagogy, not a kit you pull out of box and distribute to the students.  The training will take place over a 12 month period.  The implementation phase will be a 2 year period.

I will add links to this post of researchers and practitioners providing the theoretical basis for this program.

The second question was ‘What are National Partnerships?’  To put it simply a federal and state agreement on funding for schools which were considered at risk after extensive analysis of the 2008 NAPLAN data.  Funding is provided to develop the skills of the teachers to enrich their pedagogy and turn around the performance in the target areas.

Cheers,

Glenn.