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Project
Supporting continuous school improvement
A project to provide practical guidance for school leaders to improve student learning outcomes through effective school strategic plans
Practice guide
Effective strategic plans: Prioritising approaches to achieve each goal
This practice guide is the second in a series of 4 on developing and applying effective strategic plans and provides practical steps for prioritising approaches to achieve each goal.
Research report
The features of an effective school strategic plan: Literature review
School strategic plans are multi-year and annual plans produced through regular school review cycles to communicate a school’s intentions for improvement. AERO conducted a literature review to understand the features of effective school strategic plans.
Practice guide
Effective strategic plans: Selecting practices to deliver improvement
This practice guide is the third in a series of 4 and focuses on selecting practices to deliver improvement.
Practice guide
Effective strategic plans: Evaluating for continuous school improvement
This practice guide is the fourth and final in the series and focuses on evaluating the processes and outcomes in the strategic plan.
Article
How ready is your school for change? Considerations when introducing new initiatives, programs and models to your school community
This article explores some of the factors shown to impact school staff’s readiness for change and recommends 4 promising approaches.
Research report
Readiness for change in education: Implementing new approaches in schools
AERO is collaborating with Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (MCRI) to examine readiness for change. This is the first research snapshot in a series of 3 that summarise learnings from readiness for change research undertaken as part of the Getting it Right from the Start (GIRFTS) project.
Article
Ten approaches to supporting evidence use across Australian school systems
We identified 10 approaches to evidence-use commonly used by Australian school systems and sectors.
Video
Explicit instruction in English
Explicit instruction is a teaching practice that evidence says makes a difference. In this video, Melissa Garstang-Leary explains how she uses explicit instruction in her English lessons.
Video
Explicit instruction in mathematics
Explicit instruction is a teaching practice that evidence says makes a difference. In this video, Sue Davis explains how she uses explicit instruction in her mathematics lessons.
Video
Explicit instruction in science
Explicit instruction is a teaching practice that evidence says makes a difference. In this video, Darcie Clarke explains how she uses explicit instruction in her science lessons.
Practice resource
Family engagement audit tool: Secondary
Secondary school teachers and leaders can use these tools to examine their school’s approaches to engaging with families to support student learning.