"As Daniel began to read he began to rock - an indication of how anxious he has become." This is an extract from an Educational Psychologist report about me as nine year old child. It sure has been a long and wild dyslexic ride for me ever since! 2024 was an amazing year for me. The highlight was winning the Teacher of the Year Global Award (Dyslexia Aware) from Nessy. Nessy is an amazing Reading and Spelling online program It was a huge honour and I am most humbled to have received this global award. It is wonderful recognition for my work in advocating for the Science of Reading ..read more

 Hey Rocking Dan fans, my Science of Reading/Orton Gillingham YouTube playlist now includes animated music videos for 6 syllable types, 3 types of syllable division, single vowels, y as a vowel, schwa, the doubling rule, digraphs and Sound it Out (The Orthographic Mapping Song). Go and check it out now! The Science of Reading never sounded so good! Your students/ children will be singing and dancing along to these catchy tunes as they are learning and reinforcing important structured literacy concepts at the same time! It's a win-win that is for sure. I've had lots of great feedback from ..read more

I just played the 400th show on the Rocking Dan Virtual World Tour in Auckland, New Zealand! It's been an amazing experience so far. I've been lucky enough to play virtually in classrooms all around the world via my YouTube channel Rocking Dan Teaching Man. I started the virtual tour in response to schools having to teach remotely back in January, 2021 and therefore not being able to have live incursions. I was going to wrap the virtual tour up at the end of the 2021 school year, but I just had so many requests that I kept it going. The first virtual show was in Delaware, USA for Cindy Price ..read more

Year 1 Ferncourt Public School  Long after the roar of the crowd has subsided the memories of the Rocking Dan Teaching Man tour will live on. It was such an amazing experience to use my Long Service Leave in Term 3 to tour around Australia and play my educational songs to Kindergarten to Year 3 children. After 6 years of having my songs beamed into classrooms around the world on YouTube, it was awesome to play these tunes to children live! I had the most wonderful time on the road. It is something that I will treasure for the rest of my life. It is hard to describe the thrill of hearing an a ..read more

Hey Rocking Dan fans! The Rocking Dan Teaching Man educational musical tour starts on Friday the 19th of August in the small Victorian town of Newham (near the world famous Hanging Rock). I'm taking the term off and using my long service leave to play some free shows in schools around Australia!  I'll be singing all my hit tunes like What makes a good friend, The friends of 10, The vowels song, Be kind to everyone and many more! After Newham I'll be heading down to Queenscliff on the Victorian coast before going back up to Melbourne for some more fun rocking educational shows! Once my time in ..read more