Our school improvement framework
We apply a cycle of continuous improvement for each stage of the school improvement journey. During the design stage, we work with the school to define the level of support needed to implement the program with fidelity and in line with our 8 cycles.
To ensure effective delivery of the program, we support schools with suitable tools and knowledge transfer to build school capability. Annual reviews measure progress towards set targets, identifies challenges and ways to mitigate them and embeds learnings into the program design. We continue this cycle to ensure reform and improvements are embedded into the school system.
Supporting schools along their school improvement journey
Every school we work with begins its improvement journey with a school assessment, designed to identify its unique circumstances and develop a customised solution for school improvement. This assessment identifies a school’s position on the Poor-Fair-Good-Great scale, taking into consideration the consistency and level of academic improvement.
In addition, the assessment highlights the unmet needs faced by the school’s student population, expanding past the traditional jurisdiction of schools to encompass maternal healthcare, student wellbeing and other factors that may influence a child’s ability to learn.
Our school improvement model
Develop a great teaching team
- Great teachers: Getting equipped with the skills, knowledge and experience to deliver effective instruction.
- Training and coaching: School faculty participating in continuous training and coaching targeted at improving instruction.
- Instructional leaders: Growing school culture grounded in effective instruction that meets the needs of every student and harnesses families to support students and school.
- Governance: Formal partnership between the school and community that actively oversights the school’s improvement plan.
Teach every child 21st century skills through effective instruction
- Effective instruction: The central organising principle that provides the logic for the whole-school structure and is the starting point for improvement and critical to its success.
Create a 21st century school environment
- Technology: Enhancing delivery of the learning program by using technology as a tool not an identity.
- Infrastructure: Meeting the requirements of a 21st century school.
Address needs of every child
- Students: Unleash academic, cultural, creative and sporting potential of every child. Every student develops foundation skills, character qualities, and higher order thinking.
- Student welfare: Programs that meet the gaps in childhood development, attendance and school readiness of every child.
- Parents: Value schooling and support every child to succeed at school and support the school to improve.
- Community: Empowered decision-making and action that supports every child and the school to improve.
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