Find out what we have been up to over the past 12 months and what our focus is now that we will soon have a new Government and Minister in place.

Read our press release in response to the National Party’s “Literacy Guarantee” policy annoncement ahead of the 2023 Election.

As part of our advocacy work, we have collected and present here, information from schools across Aotearoa New Zealand on their implementation of a structured literacy approach.

Emeritus Professor James Chapman responds to the Reading Recovery ‘And + And’ “refresh”

We are concerned that the rhetoric of the Minister and the behaviour of the Ministry and ITE providers does not align in regard to the elimination of balanced literacy practices and the Minister’s firm adherence to implementing evidence-based practice

This report summarises feedback received in late 2021 from 237 teachers on the quality of teacher training they received at New Zealand universities on literacy instruction. There is a lot of room for improvement!

Read about our reaction to the Government’s announcement that it will offer a temporary reprieve to schools concerned about implementing its new NCEA numeracy and literacy standards.

Read this post about what you can do to stop literacy instruction becoming a political football.

We recap over advocacy efforts over the year, including a link to our latest letter to the Associate Minister for Education setting out five key areas that need to be addressed in the Literacy Strategy. We also provide the first iteration of our ‘Report Card’ of the Government’s progress on permanently and efficiently lifting literacy for all.

To implement a structured literacy approach well there are many elements that are going to have to be funded. So how much is this going to cost and how can you fund this? In this blog post we give a high level overview of the costs you need to consider and how you might go about funding those.

Find out more about the similarities between what we are advocating for with literacy education and what The Royal Society Te Apārangi is advocating for mathematics and statistics education.

Read what we said to MPs about reading instruction in NZ and what they can do to help.

Sometimes our agenda and what we are advocating for is mispresented in the media or just not understood. Here, Bronwyn Bayne, sets the record straight.