Seven Steps to Writing Success

Jen McVeity OAM has been awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) 🥂 🎖️ https://lnkd.in/ghQ3WyJb We are delighted to share the news that our founder Jen McVeity has been recognised in the King's Birthday 2023 Honours List for her service to literacy education as an author and publisher. An author of over 20 books and former secondary teacher, Jen is passionate about helping students and teachers discover the power of writing. Back in 2004, she combined her skills, experience and writing expertise to create the Seven Steps, which has been supporting teachers and schools to improve writing results and student engagement ever since. Upon learning of the award, Jen was both thrilled and humbled by this recognition of her life’s work: ‘This is absolutely incredible. Congratulations to everybody who has been awarded this huge honour. When I see the names, it’s so inspiring – researchers, activists, climate advocates – all people with brave minds and generous hearts. I didn’t set out to win medals, I just wanted to help kids write.’ For Jen, this latest honour demonstrates how even the smallest things we start can expand to have a massive ripple effect. Jen originally had what she calls ‘the Big, Hairy Audacious goal’ of helping one million kids to be confident writers and communicators.‘ That sounded so impossible, I could never say it aloud,’ she admits. ‘But 19 years later, with the help of my amazing Seven Steps team, we’ve smashed that goal. We’ve reached 2 million children now.’ Jen’s passion for education and her desire to make a difference to students and teachers is the driving force behind Seven Steps. Every decision we make, every piece of content we produce and every training session we run is inspired by her original vision. ‘This is a fast-moving world, getting faster all the time,’ Jen rightly observes.’People need to be creative and above all, communicate well. Students in our schools need writing so they can thrive not just in their work but in their personal lives too.’ Now more than ever, our students need the skills of thoughtful planning, creative thinking and effective communication. And Seven Steps – the program Jen created almost 20 years ago – delivers these skills in spades. Visionary, change-maker, influencer – we have much to thank Jen for. Which is why this formal recognition of her incredible contribution to literacy education is so well deserved. What’s next, you might be wondering. Well, not one for resting on her laurels, this is just the beginning for Jen. Her next goal is to transform writing for life – not just in Australia, but across the world. ‘That’s a legacy I want to leave. That’s what I’ll keep working on.’ So, watch out world … Jen McVeity OAM is turning her brave mind and generous heart to you next! https://lnkd.in/ghQ3WyJb

📚✍️ Struggling to get your pupils excited about writing? Pobble and Seven Steps to Writing Success make the perfect team to turn writing groans into storytelling gold! 💡 Discover how a structured writing approach + daily inspiration = confident, creative young writers! 🤩 👉 Find out more: https://hubs.la/Q038Z01B0

The Narrative Writing Course on Teacher Hub has just been awarded best new course of the year in the Digital Education Awards. What a way to end the year! https://lnkd.in/epzneasG

And that’s a wrap! So many interesting conversations, connections and insights. The Frankfurt Book Fair has been a wonderful whirlwind!

Seven Steps is attending the Frankfurt Book Fair this year as part of the Australian Publishers Association stand. Great to share the Seven Steps approach with publishers from around the world!

One of the many things I do in my role as APCI is take small groups of students who have been identified by their teachers for enrichment opportunities This term, I’ve been working with a group of young writers from Years 1 & 2 on developing their creative writing skills and we’ve been using Seven Steps to Writing Success from Jen McVeity OAM in these sessions because I’m a huge fan 🙌🏻 Here’s a little glimpse into our collaborative planning session. We’re working on the steps slowly over our sessions and chipping away at drafting a short story that we will publish in Term 4 and share with our classmates

ENGAGEMENT IN WRITING We have another wonderful guest joining us this week to chat about engaging students in writing. Jen McVeity OAM is the founder and creator of @sevenstepswriting and she caught up with Alice Vigors, M.Ed & I to share her top tips, tricks and ideas for getting students hooked on writing! To listen to this chat simply go to https://lnkd.in/eGEPXRb3 We hope you get as many great takeaways as we did 🙌🏻 #teacher #podcast #teacherpodcast #teaching #classroomideas #classroom

Writing is often a challenge for schools, with teachers crying out for professional development on effective writing instruction. Seven Steps to Writing Success has the answer. https://lnkd.in/gXVyAvfm