1. Building the future Workshop 3 24 November 2017
Shaping the draft Action Plan
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2. DoE Strategic Plan
School Leadership Strategy
Educational Services Review
Principal Workload Study
Each of the strategy workshops has contributed to shaping the Action Plan
Workshop 1 ideas grouped into 21 drivers and 7 pillars
Workshop 2 themes
Post-workshop consolidation
Create pathways to meet student needs
Empower students to self-pace their learning
Develop non-academic life skills
Improve numeracy, literacy and science skills
Student-centred Learning
Whole Child, Growth Mindset
Quality teaching to improve every student
Ensure safe and supportive schools
Reduce education outcome inequalities
Education Equity
Teacher Quality
Enhanced school leadership
Talented Teachers and Staff
Recognise and share
outstanding practice
Support entry
Into the profession
Develop and maintain professional practice
Schools Leadership
Improve services and support to schools
Strengthen collegial support for leaders
Provide quality leadership development
Principals as Strong Leaders
Tailored support to improve every school
Differentiated School Support
Provide enabling learning technologies
Provide flexible learning spaces
Adaptable Spaces and Systems
Increased resources to improve practice
Draw for support on external parties
Engage with local communities
Partner with parents and carers
Engaged Community Partners
Collaboration & Relationships
Greater collaboration to innovate
Innovate based on evidence
Remove barriers to collaboration
Enhance communication
Instil growth skills, behaviours and attitudes
Growth Mindset
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3. QUALITY TEACHING TO IMPROVE EVERY STUDENT
Develop every student to be their personal best
Engage with schools to ensure high aspirational expectations for every student to achieve their personal best and have a positive learning mindset
Enable best practice learning
Support teaching that empowers students in shaping their own learning and self- assessment, by providing flexible curricula, tools, processes, and feedback
Strengthen support for student wellbeing
3. Provide teachers and school leaders with data, information, insight and quality professional learning to enhance their capability to influence student wellbeing
4. Provide easier access and more responsive support to help schools deal with more complex student needs
Accelerate outcomes for Aboriginal students
5. Ensure that the educational needs of Aboriginal students and communities are reflected in all that we do, to support their success
Enhance teacher professional learning
6. Increase rigour of professional learning design, with a common set of high-quality courses incorporating adult-learning principles, and delivery, shifting away from compliance training towards innovation, classroom practice and improving student outcomes
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4. ENHANCED SCHOOL LEADERSHIP
Strengthen leadership roles and relationships
7. Ensure consistency and quality of educational leadership from the “middle layer” to support principals in continuous school improvement
Provide quality leadership development and support
8. Establish our own Leadership Institute and principal scholarships for broader principal learning and development, including instructional leadership, strategic planning, financial management, and community engagement
Grow system-wide leadership capability by enhanced induction, mentoring, and coaching-based performance management at all levels
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5. TAILORED SUPPORT TO IMPROVE EVERY SCHOOL
Tailor needs- based support to improve every school
10. Build on the School Excellence Framework and school plan to design strategies to support schools in their performance improvement journey
11. Draw on internal and external evidence to co-design differentiated support and professional learning resources for schools grouped according to similar needs
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6. INCREASED RESOURCES TO IMPROVE PRACTICE
Increase resources to enable staff to focus more time on students
Provide an interactive catalogue to improve visibility and share user ratings about professional learning courses and support resources available from the department and other providers
Free up professional time by providing increased support resources for principals
Adopt a user-needs-centred approach to streamline workflow tools, systems, processes and applications integrated with school operations
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7. GREATER COLLABORATION TO INNOVATE
Grow capacity for collaboration to innovate
15. Clearly define “who does what” by role descriptions articulating responsibilities, expected outcomes and success measures across central, field and school staff
Shift behaviours and mindsets from consultation to collaboration, innovating for problem-solving and continuous improvement
Identify, share and adopt best practices
17. Identify local, state, national and international innovations in instruction, school operations and high performing teams
18. Expand and sustain technology-enabled networks of schools beyond local geographies to share expertise between schools with similar challenges or common development interests and to form communities of practice  
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