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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.
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.
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: Setting goals and targets for student learning
This practice guide is the first in a series of 4 on developing and applying effective strategic plans and provides practical steps for setting goals and targets for student learning.
Explainer
Explicit instruction optimises learning
This explainer provides an introduction to explicit instruction, with a focus on explaining how it contributes to positive outcomes for students’ learning achievement and dispositions.
Practice resource
Family engagement implementation checklists – secondary
These checklists can be used to plan the implementation of your school’s approaches for engaging with families to support student learning.
Practice guide
Formative assessment practice guide
This guide outlines key practices for using formative assessment in the classroom.
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.
Project
How students learn
Our work on how students learn best (also known as the science of learning) connects cognitive science, neuroscience and education psychology research on the learning process with practical teaching implications.
Research report
How students learn best: An overview of the evidence
This paper highlights the impact aligning teaching practices with how students learn has on educational outcomes. It underscores the importance of evidence-based practices that enhance learning for all students.
Explainer
Introduction to the science of reading
Understanding the cognitive science behind how students learn to read and the research on effective instruction makes it easier for educators to align policy and classroom teaching with evidence.
Explainer
Knowledge is central to learning
This explainer provides an introduction to the role of knowledge in learning, implications for effective teaching, and describes how building background knowledge facilitates higher-order thinking and learning outcomes.