Founded in 2011, Writer's Toolbox provides writing programmes to schools across Australia and New Zealand. With offices in Auckland and Brisbane, Writer's Toolbox works with schools helping teachers and students lift writing outcomes. Every day of the weekโfrom Townsville to central Brisbane to New Zealandโs deep south, Writer's Toolbox writing coaches are busy in schools delivering workshops and coaching to lift teacher capability and student results.
"๐๐ข๐ฌ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ข ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ธ ๐จ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฆ๐ข๐ค๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ดโ๐ง๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฎ ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐บ ๐ด๐ถ๐ฃ๐ซ๐ฆ๐ค๐ต ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ๐ขโ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ง๐ช๐ค๐ช๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ธ๐ณ๐ช๐ต๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ช๐ฏ๐ด๐ต๐ณ๐ถ๐ค๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ช๐ด ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐จ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ."
What's unique about Writer's Toolbox
Unlike other writing programmes, Writer's Toolbox starts from the top down. Dr Hunter, a former university professor, developed Writer's Toolbox with the key writing skills a student would need to excel in tertiary education and worked backwards: charting year-by-year the 20 key writing skills that should be taught in the life of the student. No other writing programme in the world takes the student from Year 1 to their final senior year in an explicit, structured programme of incremental skill development. Students learn the rules of great writingโanchored in 150 years of writing researchโand are taught to write well across all their subjects.
Dr Hunter founded Writer's Toolbox on two fundamental beliefs: that every student can be taught to write wellโand grasp the life possibilities they deserve. And that the teacher is the dynamic force for change in the classroom. Teaching writing is every teacherโs responsibility.