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Publications From Members
The Teaching Improvement Agenda
Our new book, The Teaching Improvement Agenda: What Matters and How Teaching Excellence Is Achieved Drawing on ten years of research into whole-of-school teaching improvement, this engaging text explains what teaching improvement requires, how it is achieved, and how to maintain it in your …
How do Principals of High Performing Schools Achieve Sustained Improvement Results?
Education systems across the globe have enacted national testing regimes to monitor and report student achievement progress as an outcome of teaching performance. This paper reports on an investigation of strategies that Principals of high achieving schools use to achieve school results, based on …
Using blended learning to support whole-of-school improvement: The need for contextualisation
This article reports on findings from the application of BL to a school improvement project involving two K-12 international schools in Japan. These findings relate to six research questions concerning how involvement with this project impacted teachers’ ICT confidence, how change management was …
Creating an Effective Strategic Plan
Creating an Effective Strategic Plan An effective strategic school plan is one that embeds the values of the school. Great plans are designed as ‘living’ documents from which actions plans cascade, goals are measured and accountabilities are secured. A strategic plan must also formulate …
Cathy Quinn: Personalised learning for all – are parents the missing key to closing the gaps?
All students deserve one year's progress for one year's work, no matter where they start (Hattie, 2015, p.3). One in five will start school behind in learning in Australia this year and the major cause of this is their socioeconomic background (Cairney, 2016 as cited in Joyner, 2016). Often times …
Royce Willis: Towards a Strategic Blend in Education: A review of the blended learning literature
How might schools harness technological innovation for classroom effects? In this book the authors seek to answer this question by introducing and investigating the concept of Blended Learning through a review of current research literature. In this book, the authors consolidate the current state of …
