Free Live Webinar
From Data to Impact:
A Whole-School Approach to Addressing Literacy Gaps
A Whole-School Approach to Addressing Literacy Gaps
Tuesday, 27 October 2026
4pm Perth | 7pm Sydney | 8pm Auckland
How do you identify students who need additional support, decide what that support should look like and build an approach that works across the whole school?
In this live webinar, Kathy Bushby will be joined by literacy experts Claire Scott, founder of TESTS (Training Enhancements for Schools, Teachers and Students), and Jordan O’Sullivan, Director of Shaping Minds Australia, to share practical strategies for moving from literacy data to meaningful action.
Drawing on their leadership and mentoring experience working with schools, they’ll show how schools can build effective and sustainable approaches to literacy improvement, from identifying students at risk and structuring intervention to building staff capability and translating evidence into classroom practice.
- How to use literacy data to identify students who need additional support.
- How to structure whole-school literacy and intervention.
- How timetabling, resourcing and staff capability can make or break effective intervention.
- How to build greater consistency and ownership of literacy improvement across your school.
- Practical ways to translate evidence into classroom action.
- How to use literacy data to identify students who need additional support.
- Provides students and teachers with immediate, detailed, and legible feedback
- Accurately measures what each student knows, doesn't know, and are ready to learn
- Ensures a mastery rate of more than 90%
- Has helped more than 20 million students at thousands of schools globally
Tuesday, September 29th, 2026
1 PM London / 4 PM Dubai / 8 PM Singapore
SPEAKER
Trainer, Coach, and Implementation Consultant
Claire Scott is the founder of TESTS (Training Enhancements for Schools, Teachers and Students), a professional learning consultancy supporting schools across Australia to strengthen literacy instruction and improve student outcomes.
SPEAKER
Director, Shaping Minds Australia
Jordan O’Sullivan is a teacher, school leader and Director of Shaping Minds Australia, with more than a decade of experience in teaching and school leadership. With a particular interest in cognitive science and education research, Jordan has led curriculum and instructional change initiatives that have delivered significant improvements in student outcomes.
Through Shaping Minds, he works with teachers and school leaders across Australia to translate evidence into practical classroom approaches, providing professional learning, instructional coaching, curriculum expertise and teaching resources that support effective, sustainable change.
HOSTED BY
McGraw Hill Education Consultant, WA and SA
Kathy Bushby is an Education Consultant with more than 20 years of experience partnering with school leadership teams and educators to improve student learning outcomes.
SPEAKER
Dale P. Johnson is the director of digital innovation for the University Design Institute at Arizona State University. He works with university leaders to develop and implement digital solutions to enable student success. Those efforts have earned him the 2016 Sally M. Johnstone Award from WCET recognizing his thought leadership, excellence in practice, and demonstrated leadership capabilities. In 2018, he was honored by the IMS Global Learning Consortium with an outstanding service award for his leadership of the adaptive courseware community of practice.
Mr. Johnson has spoken on the topic of digital innovation in higher education at more than 30 conferences in the USA, Rwanda, Brazil, South Korea, Singapore, Germany, Mexico, Russia, Norway, Kazakhstan, Portugal, and Vietnam, and led workshops on the subject at numerous universities. He has a bachelor of science in design degree from ASU and a master in public policy degree from Harvard University.