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A project to provide practical guidance for school leaders to improve student learning outcomes through effective school strategic plans

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.

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.

This practice guide is the third in a series of 4 and focuses on selecting practices to deliver improvement.

This practice guide is the fourth and final in the series and focuses on evaluating the processes and outcomes in the strategic plan.

This article explores some of the factors shown to impact school staff’s readiness for change and recommends 4 promising approaches.

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.

By examining literacy and numeracy results across assessments, we can better understand the performance of Australian students over time; we can pinpoint areas of national strength and weakness and improve Australia’s educational outcomes.

This paper is the first in a series of Analytical Insights papers, which provide accessible, up-to-date analysis of educational datasets.

We look at who is not sitting the tests and why that matters.

We identified 10 approaches to evidence-use commonly used by Australian school systems and sectors.