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Is School Reform Working?, Geoff N. Masters

Prof Geoff Masters AO

Conversation With Prof. Geoff Masters Ao, Ceo, Acer And Ms Julia Gillard, Former Prime Minister Of Australia, Geoff N. Masters, Julia Gillard

Prof Geoff Masters AO

Listen to the conversation here: http://teacher.acer.edu.au/article/exclusive-a-conversation-between-julia-gillard-and-professor-geoff-masters

Plenary 1 - Quality And Equity Through Evidence-Based Practice, Geoff N. Masters

Prof Geoff Masters AO

Plenary 1

National School Improvement Tool, Geoff N. Masters

Prof Geoff Masters AO

Research is revealing the powerful impact that school leadership teams can have in improving the quality of teaching and learning. Effective leaders create cultures of high expectations, provide clarity about what teachers are to teach and students are to learn, establish strong professional learning communities and lead ongoing efforts to improve teaching practices. The National School Improvement Tool brings together findings from international research into the practices of highly effective schools and school leaders. The Tool assists schools to review and reflect on their efforts to improve the quality of classroom teaching and learning. It supports school-wide conversations – including …

School Improvement, Geoff N. Masters

Prof Geoff Masters AO

Improving our national educational performance depends on ensuring high quality leadership and effective classroom teaching in all Australian schools, as Geoff Masters explains.

Continual Improvement Through Aligned Effort, Geoff N. Masters

Prof Geoff Masters AO

Keynote 1 - A framework for school improvement

Measuring And Rewarding School Improvement, Geoff N. Masters

Prof Geoff Masters AO

There is now a widely held view that the most effective strategy for improving countries’ educational performances is to improve the day-to-day work of schools. This view follows several decades of significant increases in government expenditure on school education in developed countries, often with little or no accompanying evidence of improvements in the quality or equity of educational provision. A number of countries have introduced incentives – both rewards and sanctions – in an attempt to ‘drive’ improvements in the work of schools. Many of these incentive schemes have followed the model adopted in business of specifying and measuring desired …

The Hard Work Of Improvement, Geoff Masters

Prof Geoff Masters AO