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An elephant in the room is a big embarrassing issue everyone is aware of, which is deliberately not mentioned. A bunyip in the room is a big issue people aren't aware of, which is extremely obvious and thus embarrassing, once highlighted and acknowledged. Currently, Australian education is full of bunyips. Bunyips in the Classroom: The 10 Changes explores the key issues currently impeding progress in Australian education. While other nations enjoy highly effective education, Australia has ongoing low literacy and academic achievement, far too many struggling readers, excessive child and teacher workload, and inappropriately pressured teaching and learning: our Find the Learning Time Challenge. Bunyips also provides logical practical solutions, including the 10 Changes, so Australia too can achieve and enjoy highly effective education and highly-literate well-educated Aussies. Well-considered and wise, Bunyips is a highly entertaining and easy read, as it explores the 10 Changes and Australia's need for them, and introduces our many education bunyips. Dr Galletly's insights are shrewd, insightful, practical, and positive. Her logical 10 Changes improvements provide Australia with wonderful potential for improvement. An enticing solution-focussed book for parents, teachers, academics and researchers alike, Bunyips is for all readers interested in exploring Australia's current education struggles, our crucial needs for improvement, and strategic ways forward. Bunyips is the first book in the Aussie Reading Woes trilogy. Want to delve further and expand on the 10 Changes and associated issues? Check out the other titles: The Research Tours for added important discussion of key research findings, and The 10 Changes: The Nitty Gritty for detailed explanation of key 10 Change areas.

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Susan Galletly is a literacy and learning difficulties specialist and researchers, teacher, speech pathologist and CQU Postdoctoral Research Fellow from regional Qld, with a passion for improving literacy outcomes in lower literacy achievers, and decades of experience working in this area. She completed her Master of Education qualification in the area of literacy acquisition and learning disabilities, winning several University awards, and her doctoral (PhD) studies on word-reading instruction for Australian at-risk readers and assessments for school use. Working as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Central Queensland University (CQU) with Professor Bruce Knight and colleagues, in addition to earlier research projects, Susan coordinated the 2013-2017 ARC linkage project Bridging the Gap, collaborative research by teachers and researchers establishing principles of effective reading instruction for at risk children in the first school years. Susan has a strong interest in the impacts that orthographies and cognitive load have on learning to read and write. She is a co-developer of Orthographic Advantage Theory (Knight, Galletly & Gargett, 2019) and The Literacy Component Model (Knight, Galletly & Aprile, 2021), which are being used increasingly across Australia. In addition to her research work, Susan has decades of experience in hands-on work with children with literacy learning difficulties and their families, in her Speech Language Pathology private practice. Her most recent works are her Aussie Reading Woes trilogy exploring Australia's education struggles, potential for strong education into the future, and needed changes and goals towards achieving that strong potential:1.Bunyips in the Room: The 10 Changes.2.The Research Tours: The Impacts of Orthographic Disadvantage.3.The 10 Changes: The Nitty Gritty. Wise, insightful, positive, and focussed on Australian education achieving the meteoric improvement it's well capable of, the books build from Susan's depths of practical and research expertise in working with and exploring improving of literacy development and education

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