Iversen Publishing

31/01/2019

Today is World Read Aloud day, grab your favourite book and share it with a friend.

23/01/2019

Kia ora and welcome back. We hope you had time over the break to catch up with whanau and friends and find a quiet spot to read a book or two.
Our new catalogue is out, please visit
http://www.iversenpublishing.com/to-order-xidc54983.html
to download a digital copy or PM us your address and we will post one out. Special thanks to our avid readers Harley and Mahe for gracing our cover this year. Ngā mihi nui

19/08/2018

A number of schools have been talking about our Quick60 Programme and the wonderful results they are getting with their target students who are struggling with literacy. If you want to know more email [email protected]

31/05/2016

Have a look at these wonderful students who have created their own performances of our Quick60 Poems and then taught them to younger students.

This video is about Quick60 Poems

13/02/2016

An excellent article about Iversen Publishing's Quick60 Small Group Intervention Programme which is changing the lives of students who previously struggled with literacy.

A new reading programme for kids where they work in groups is being hailed as a success as pass rates soar.

02/11/2014

An excellent article from Susan Cullen, Adjunct Professor for Te Wananga o Aotearoa regarding Quick60
http://susancullen.maori.nz/quick-60/

Literacy skills are fundamental when we think about education for our Tamariki. A well-functioning society is one where everyone has the basic building blocks to participate in and contribute to their communities. Literacy allows us to communicate, think critically and problem solve through reading,…

29/10/2014

A great story on the education Chanel about the Quick60 Foundation programme.

Eden Park Elementary School kindergarten students are part of a pilot literacy program that will give them a head start in reading and vocabulary comprehension.

24/08/2014

We are extremely proud and excited to announce that Sandra Iversen has been selected as a finalist in the Westpac Woman of Influence Awards.

Finalists announced!

We're excited to let you know that our category finalists for the 2014 Women of Influence Awards have been announced!

Find out more about these amazing women here http://bit.ly/YOehDL

06/12/2013

He once said " Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world"

04/12/2013

Decades of research tells us that where kids are after two years at school will likely be where they always are in relation to their age peers. Add to this the Matthew Effect (Stanovich 1985) which describes the sn*******ng effect for both good and poor readers – the rich get rich and the poor get poorer. What we end up with is kids who are behind from the beginning getting further behind, and soon it’s not only the reading books they can’t read but also the maths and science books. Now they're failing across the curriculum, switching off, and more than likely getting into trouble.

Successive governments have poured $40m a year into Reading Recovery for the last 30 years and this has not and will not fix the problem. Reading Recovery requires schools to take the lowest students – fine in 1983 – but no longer so. When I was a Reading Recovery Tutor in 1985, the teachers I trained could recover up to 16 students a year. Many schools now struggle to recover less than half that number and many of those children do not go on to succeed in the regular classroom. Nowadays the lowest students often have little English vocabulary whether English is their first language or not, and many are functioning with the literacy levels of three year olds. These students do not get up to speed in their first year of school and then they clog up the one-on-one Reading Recovery programme. In addition to this, Ministry teacher professional development initiatives benefit white middle class students but do little to raise the achievement levels of the lowest groups, typically Maori and Pasifika.

At Iversen Publishing, we've developed a programme, (Quick60), which is having amazing results in the schools in which it is implemented. This programme was developed from the research of Iversen and Tunmer (1993) and Iversen, Tunmer and Chapman (2005 ) and works for groups of students rather than one-on-one, which makes it very suitable for Maori and Pasifika. Professional development is embedded within the programme so that it can be delivered by inexperienced teachers and teacher aides without further long-term training. All these features make it much more cost effective than Reading Recovery and it’s producing better results. I’ve attached the results from a six week national trial that we did at the end of 2010 and also an article that appeared in the Papakura Courier reporting on the success of Edmund Hillary School. Edmund Hillary’s data shows that since adopting Q60 their percentage of students at or above national standards has risen from 5% to 55% and is still rising. Next year with the implementation of a Quick60 Prevention Programme to cut off failure before it starts it is anticipated the percentage will be 75%+ at or above National Standards. Pretty damn good for a very low Decile 1 school with a 99% Maori and Pasifika roll.

It’s time to stop blaming everyone and everything including National Standards for the failure of our lowest students and to start looking at what we’re doing and/or not doing in classrooms from New Entrants upwards. Doing what we’ve always done will get us the results we’ve always had for our high performers. But doing what we’ve always done is progressively disadvantaging those who most need our expertise.

18/09/2013

Congratulations to Rina Nook and Carol Goldsmith at Edmund Hillary School. It is great to work with you and we come away inspired every time we visit.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/local-news/papakura-courier/9175321/School-turns-around

A reading programme dreamt up in a garage has put a previously troubled school on a different track.

28/08/2013

The news about Quick60 and the excellent results students using the programme are achieving is spreading. This is a recording of Sandra being interviewed by Andrew Urquhart on a NZ radio station
http://www.rhema.co.nz/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=8956:quick60-reading-programme&Itemid=16

Sandra Iverson has developed a reading programme that is proving to be better than those used in schools.  jwplayer('avID_AVPlayerID_53a322cf_115...

22/08/2013

Another newspaper article about Quick60 and Sandra's research.

A backyard reading programme outshines Government's approach says university.

06/08/2013

Hi all - It is very interesting times at Iversen Publishing with Massey University beginning a wide scale study into Literacy that we will be part of. The article below talks about literacy initiatives adopted in some South Auckland schools – designed by Massey education graduates – as examples of strategies putting current theory and research into practice and raising literacy achievement in classrooms.
The Massey graduate is our very own Dr Sandra Iversen and the programme is our Quick60 programme which is producing fantastic results in all the schools it is being implemented in.

13/07/2012

Hi all - Sandra will be presenting at the NZ-ED Show.
Come along and hear about the fantastic results schools world wide are getting from using the Quick60 Intervention Programme.
September 13, 14 & 15 at The TelstraClear Pacific Events Centre in Manukau.

20/12/2011

Merry Christmas to all our wonderful friends, family, and supporters. 2011 has been a busy year for us thanks to you all. Where every you are spending your holidays we hope they are fully of great times with wonderful people, lots of food and drink and a pile of books within easy reach.

11/07/2011

Sandra will be speaking at the New Zealand Reading Association Conference in Rotorua, Monday 18th of July. Come along and hear about Quick60 our intervention programme that is producing fantastic results world wide.