The Origin Story

Think Write Read was born of a desire for community. Over the span of my teaching career (almost three decades) I have been a traditional classroom teacher, and a Montessori classroom teacher for toddlers, young children, tweens, teens and young adults. I have lectured in adult education, led community education projects, and worked as a private literacy and numeracy specialist. I have also had the great joy and pleasure of educating my own children at home. I sit on the executive committee of the largest Teacher Association in Australia, have been a founding committee member of a Home Education Association, and currently serve on the academic board of the oldest Montessori Teacher Training Institute in Australia. I have some perspective on the demands that face educators in many different settings, and the tightrope that educators walk each day in trying to serve their students whilst meeting mandates and making budgets stretch. Classroom teachers, home educating parents, Montessori teachers, literacy specialists, and literacy tutors have to work very hard to make resources work for their unique settings. I can help. 

Thinking, writing and reading are connected. They are the three tasks of idea-creation. The development of writing skills should be sequential, recursive, and interleaved. Writing is not a "subject" - it is a tool for learning. It helps us to make sense of, and communicate our thoughts about the amazing world that has gone before us, surrounds us now, and leads us into the future. Writing is about self-expression. This community of educators is informed and inspired by the groundbreaking work of the scholars who have gone before us. This community is about taking the best of what is out there, and putting it into practice.