Gabbie Stroud Books In Order

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books

Gabbie Stroud is a published Australian author born July 4, 1977.

The author describes herself as loving to laugh, write, and travel. She has been a primary school teacher, getting her Masters of Education specializing in the area of just how kids are able to learn to read and write, which is ironic because she herself was not taught to read but somehow started anyway. She began reading before kindergarten and the teacher would allow her to read to the class while preparing art supplies for the afternoon session.

She grew up in Jindabyne on a farm, with some mornings it being so cold in the farmhouse that she could see her breath when she woke up. Gabbie attended primary school in Berridale, and author Duncan Ball even came to visit her school, which was one of her favorite days. She skipped skiing with her brother just so that she could meet him.

Even when she was young, Gabbie had a passion for reading and writing. She still loves to meet an author in person and always gets excited. She has always wanted to be a teacher, writer, and actress. She didn’t think that writing or acting qualified as real jobs when she was younger, so she studied teaching after high school, having moved to Canberra.

Gabbie has taught in London as well as Toronto and various other places. She says that she has instructed primary school but also has taught on a high school level. She attended Australian Catholic University and graduated with a Bachelor of Education as well as her Masters of Education from the University of Wollongong.

The author notes that she taught up until 2014, having started in 1999. Even though she loved teaching, Gabbie says that writing is where her heart is. Her first novel was published in 2009, a fictional story titled Measuring Up that is about a guy and his brother who are surfing on the same wave and is for younger adults or anyone over fifteen years of age.

Gabbie recounts that she had a life-changing moment in 2014 and made the choice to leave ‘mainstream teaching’ behind. She describes it as similar to the moment that Alice fell down the rabbit hole. She says since that moment she has been enjoying having adventures, doing great things, meeting great people, and exploring all of the possibilities that her life has to offer. She recommends these moments and going down rabbit holes to anyone.

She has two daughters named Olivia and Sophie. They all live in Merimbula on NSW’s Far South Coast. They share a lot in common and all love to talk, cook, swim, learn, write, read, and laugh, as well as watch movies.

Teacher is a nonfiction memoir from author Gabbie Stroud. This is a moving memoir that shows the reader the problems in education and why as well as how they need to change. Stroud goes into detail about how the current system is currently not working and letting down parents and children alike.

When it comes to children, watching them grow and learn can be a beautiful experience, according to the author. They are growing, and throughout a year of education she says that they have ‘endless ways’ of growing and she can see their self-esteem, confidence, and empowerment growing.

Kids can fall for learning, for the magic that comes with the art of teaching. Teaching was something that Gabrielle Stroud used to do, until she decided to walk away from it.

Gabbie was a teacher who was dedicated to what she did in 2014. She had been working for over a decade, but still resigned a couple months later in a fit of despair and frustration upon realizing that the Naplan-test education model was getting in the way of her attending to individual students according to their talents and needs– something that she specialized in.

Her essay ‘Teaching Australia’ was published in the 2016 Griffith Review in February. It went into detail about her experiences as a teacher and got a major response from teachers all over the world. It was the start of a conversation on a topic that has not yet been discussed to the extent that it needs to be about how our education system is harmful to teachers and not fair to children.

This is the memoir inspired by that essay. In it, Gabrielle tells how she got into teaching, what she believes makes up a great teacher, and the aspects of why she had finally had her last straw with teaching. Honest and authentic, Gabrielle cares about this topic deeply and wants to see children and teachers be able to succeed and thrive in the current educational system.

Dear Parents: Letters From the Teacher– your children, their education, and how you can help is another great nonfiction book from Gabbie Stroud. This is a call to arms where the author makes the request that parents see their roles as the lifelong teachers of their children, showing how they are able to help the educational teachers of their children and the schools to get the best results so that the next generation will be enriched.

Stroud goes into how people are thinking that standardized testing and programs such as MySchool and NAPLAN are getting results due to comparisons and rankings. However, these new formats of assessing the skills of the students are actually impacting the kids and their ability to understand and develop life skills and learning appreciation that has traditionally been the goal of teaching in the past.

This is an appeal from Gabbie Stroud to the parents of Australia, urging them to try and understand that the way that their children are being taught is fundamentally changing and what the effects may be on future generations.

The author’s message is that parents are the primary educators. They need to understand what they provide to their children and also what teachers can give children as well, and what the current system is allowing them to do is simply not enough. A great examination at the Australian system and where things are currently at not only for teachers but for students and parents as well.