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This practice guide details strategies for engaging with families from culturally diverse backgrounds, families with English as an additional language or dialect and families from refugee backgrounds.

This project aims to use research to help schools and school systems support students struggling with literacy and numeracy.

This case study has been created by Schools Plus, with support from Clarke Road School, as an example of how to support complex learners through family engagement practices.

The following case study has been created by Schools Plus, with the support of Darling Heights State School, as an example of engaging with families to support student learning in primary school.

This rubric outlines a set of capabilities to do with the evidence-based practice of formative assessment.

In formative assessment, you gather and interpret information about student learning as it is happening in your classroom. It helps you to adapt your teaching to meet student needs. 

Kerri Proctor, Head of English at Walford Anglican School for Girls, uses different formative assessment methods to track students' progress.

This checklist is a list of practical steps teachers can take to support the adoption of the evidence-based practice formative assessment in their setting.

This example comes from a Year 7 English class where a formative assessment task was to gather data about students’ writing and interpretive skills.

Exit slips are an easy way to gather formative assessment data after a lesson or sequence of learning.