Professional Learning
School-based professional learning
Joanne offers a range of options to support professional learning needs to develop students’ language and literacy across the curriculum in both primary and secondary schools. Options include:
- workshops or presentations
- series of workshops
- small group planning sessions
- planning followed by demonstration lessons and debrief sessions.
Duration and session lengths can be negotiated and include after school hours, staff development days and in school time. Detailed short and long terms plans can be designed with a combination of modes to support ongoing targeted plans across a year or several years.
Content can be negotiated and created specifically, to address a school’s particular needs and school plans. Please feel free to make contact to discuss possibilities and options.
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Other professional learning
Grammar and Teaching (live online)
When: 4:30-6:30pm AEST/AEDT Thursday 7, 14, 21 & 28 August; 4, 11, 18, 25 September; 23 & 30 October; 6 & 13 November 2025
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Interactive through Zoom
This 12 course is presented by both Joanne Rossbridge and Kathy Rushton online through Zoom. Participants explore those features of grammar necessary for students to master by the end of the middle years of schooling; develop understandings of the grammatical concepts outlined in syllabus documents and in NAPLAN; define a pedagogy which includes the teaching of grammar in meaningful contexts relating to the subject matter of the curriculum.
Grammar, Language and Literacy (live online)
When: Express interest here
Interactive through Zoom
An introductory course suitable for educators and literacy support staff
This five session interactive Zoom course is presented by Joanne Rossbridge and Kathy Rushton. It aims to develop understandings of some of the grammatical concepts important to learning about language, explore the grammatical features of some quality children’s literature and investigate some of the ways young students can be supported in learning about language.
Tell Me Your Story: Supporting EAL/D students in language and literacy development
When: Friday 29 August 2025
Location: Surry Hills, Sydney
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Practical strategies will be provided to foster the use of English language while encouraging students to use all the linguistic resources that they bring to school, including the use of their first language. Consideration will be given to the wellbeing framework and supporting students in an inclusive environment which honours and confirms their identity, language, and culture.
Conversations about Texts in Secondary Schools
When: Friday 5 September 2025
Location: Surry Hills, Sydney
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The focus of this one day course presented by Kathy Rushton and Joanne Rossbridge is to develop understandings and strategies for engaging secondary students in writing.
Developing Vocabulary for Writing Imaginative and Persuasive Texts K-6
When: Friday 19 September 2025
Location: Surry Hills, Sydney
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Current practices will be explored, and participants will be given the opportunity to critically assess and reflect on their own practices and the theoretical concepts of literacy development which underpin the development of vocabulary. In this workshop participants will participate in strategies for vocabulary development using texts with a range of different audiences and purposes but situated within the wider framework of Imaginative and Persuasive texts.
