At Renaissance, we help teachers support every student to do their best. Our literacy and assessment tools are built for Australian and New Zealand schools, giving educators the information they need to guide learning and track progress with confidence.
As we near the end of term, we begin to look at new ways of getting students back on track and ready for 2021 after the disruptions we’ve experienced this year. We know teachers are faced [...]
Ah Term 4, after the year we’ve had it’s comforting to know that we’re on the home stretch. Students, schools and staff have experienced a year in education like no other. The disruptions to class time, transitions to and from [...]
Every day, at hundreds of schools across the country, thousands of students have the opportunity to assess their reading comprehension by taking a Reading Practice Quiz in Accelerated Reader. More than 45,000 AR quizzes are available on a wide range of [...]
By: Renaissance Professional Development Team This article is a follow up to the Facebook live held by the Renaissance Professional Development team on the 16th of September. Head to our Facebook page to watch the video! In [...]
By: Renaissance Professional Development Team The third and final post in our series of blogs following our webinar on Guiding Effective Literacy and Numeracy Teaching explores three exciting numeracy strategies! Keep in mind, these are [...]
By: Renaissance Professional Development Team Welcome to the second post in our series on literacy and numeracy strategies, exploring three more literacy strategies that we’ve seen being used in schools that we work with and consider how [...]
By: Renaissance Professional Development Team As Renaissance Professional Development Coaches, we’re very lucky to work with so many incredible schools across Australia and New Zealand. In our sessions, whether we are helping to implement Renaissance [...]
By: Jovana Cupac The science classroom is a powerful place where students can develop critical thinking skills and explore how the world operates. Students may have a preconceived notion of science simply being a collection of [...]
By: Denise Spanswick When our ancient ancestors sat around the fire at night, they would discuss details such as where to find food, how to successfully hunt, which plants or animals to avoid and other essential survival skills. [...]
By: Zora Zaric It was 1998. I was in Year 3 and Mrs Thomas had just shown us how to write procedure texts. Whilst I still recall How to Make Fairy Bread (and indulge occasionally) the [...]