Catalyst Coaching Selwyn

02/02/2026

Hello! Happy New Year. For us, a new year, also means a new name, and new things we are still working on, coming soon. Stay tuned :)

15/06/2025

Powerful stuff. We need to understand how hard this is, in school, still.

11/06/2025

Yes!

10/06/2025

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09/06/2025

How inspiring - the power of books!
The link takes you to a young readers book, and there is also a movie. Does anyone else get more from movies, if you've read the book first?

William Kamkwamba, from Malawi, is a born inventor. When he was 14, he built an electricity-producing windmill from spare parts and scrap, working from rough plans he found in a library book called Using Energy and modifying them to fit his needs.

The windmill he built powers four lights and two radios in his family home, a journey detailed in the book and film titled "The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind."

Since then, he has built a solar-powered water pump that supplies the first drinking water in his village and two other wind turbines, the tallest standing at 12 meters (39 ft), and has built two more, including one in Lilongwe, the political capital of Malawi.

Get the book, "The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind." by William Kamkwamba: https://amzn.to/3FL8d95

02/06/2025

We love morphology & Can Do Kids Academy have fabulous resources to support word enquiry.
English can be fun, when you understand all the parts of it.

02/06/2025

It’s OUR responsibility to ensure EVERY child learns to read

Quote: from the awesome Maryanne Wolf

19/05/2025

Gosh - yes. Here at Springboard we understand these issues well :(
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/561452/learning-support-in-schools-at-breaking-point-report-finds?fbclid=IwY2xjawKXwa9leHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFGSjRCckcyTXhpYWNuYkk5AR5hIPPI3wjceGUHVY8SBc8CK3N1eG-GaHOw8R2YCL3hy22NFS6JDUnpfQ1Y0w_aem_MoISZxrIieRig8tXXSR1Fg

Teachers and principals are calling the situation "dire", according to a new report.

18/05/2025

So true! Good instruction will overcome many other things :)

🎯Words of wisdom from the awesome Emily Hanford in honour of yesterday receiving an Honorary Doctorate from La Trobe University in acknowledgement of her enormous contribution to public and academic discourse on reading instruction.
Emily is the internationally acclaimed journalist responsible for the monumentally important “Sold a Story” podcast.
And, if you haven’t heard it yet, make sure you check it out at here: 👉 https://features.apmreports.org/sold-a-story/

Quote is taken from the

18/05/2025

Great reminders here.