Professor Lorraine Hammond AM

1/4 Listening features.apmreports.org/sold-a-story/s…, I'm reminded how fortunate I am to stand on the shoulders of giants. My PhD supervisor, Dr Trish Formentin, introduced me to Direct Instruction. She had met Zig Engelmann and brought Dr Anita Archer to Perth in 1991. @ehanford

2/4 Trish and I worked together supporting teachers to implement, Let’s Decode an approach to phoneme awareness & systematic decoding instruction based on Direct Instruction Reading. Yesterday, I met a teacher we'd worked with in 1995, who reminded me of something extraordinary.

3/4 Despite dramatically improved literacy results in her low SEI school, her principal insisted she remove any reference to DI when his superiors came to see why student achievement had improved.

4/4 Thirty years later, @ehanford reminds us just how long this battle has been going on. And how much we owe those who refused to give up.

I'm getting ready for 2027 and looking for experienced teachers to take on part time sessional academic work with my Notre Dame students in Sydney. Expressions of interest to Lorraine.Hammond@nd.edu.au