Innovation that drives transformation across school systems

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Innovation that drives transformation across
school systems

• Victoria, Australia

Katrina Reynen Assistant General
Manager Innovation Next Practice
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Introduction to Australia
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Introduction to Victoria

• Population 5.25 million
• Gross State Product AU 228 billion
• 36 of Gross State Product spent on education
  training
• Victoria one of eight states and territories in a
  federal system
• Multicultural over 230 countries of birth and
  200 languages spoken
• State capital Melbourne
• Population 3.7 million, 71 of Victoria

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Schooling in Victoria
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Government Schooling in Victoria

• Teaching staff
• Primary Schools
• Principal Class 1,881
• Teachers 18,656
• Secondary Schools
• Principal Class 939
• Teachers 18,714

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What do we mean by innovation?
Transformation
Incremental change
Continuous improvement
Do it the same
Do it better
Do it differently
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Three approaches to innovation for systemic
transformation

• Top down, High level of central direction and
  support
• Top down, lower level of central control
• Bottom up, practitioner led

• 1. Performance and Development Culture
  (professional culture in schools)
• 2. Leading Schools Fund (Design of new facilities
  and pedagogy)
• 3. KnowledgeBank Web 2.0 trials

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21st century learning
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Example 1 Performance and Development Culture
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Performance and Development Elements

• Induction program for teachers new to the school
• Use of multiple sources of feedback
• Customised individual teacher development plans
• Quality professional development
• Belief by teachers that the schools has a
  performance and development culture

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Cultural Change

• Cultures do not change by mandate they change
  by the specific displacement of existing norms,
  values, structures and processes by others the
  process of cultural change depends fundamentally
  on modelling the new values and behaviours that
  you expect to displace the existing ones.
• Richard Elmore, 2004

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Evidence of success PD Culture
Schools accredited in 2007
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Leading Schools Fund
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New spaces and places for learning
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Learning places and spaces
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School transformation variables
Connectivity between design and function of
educational spaces
Proven approaches to student centred learning
Effective use of ICT
Successful sharing strategies within schools,
across schools and the system
Outcomes
Improved student, teacher and school climate
outcomes
Suite of innovative teacher practices
Success in addressing variability in school
performance
Method for building school capability
New models of education provision
Research and Evaluation
Action research
Meta-evaluation University of Melbourne
Progress overall
Self assessment
Data
Continuous improvement in student outcomes
Improved teacher and school effectiveness
Sharing and transference of good practice,
knowledge and programs
New models of education provision

• Objectives

T H E L E A D I N G S C H O O L S F U N D
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Improved outcomes
Percentage
Improvement Areas
SFO Student family occupation index
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Transformation for innovation
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What are kids telling us?
Literate teachers are able to upload a video and
make comments on YouTube, edit a wiki, select a
safe online payment site, subscribe to a podcast,
turn predictive text on or off, name a good
Flickr photo and spell Flickr correctly! Prof
Heppell
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ICT and eLearning in schools

• ePotential
• Digilearn
• Kahootz
• Victorian Education Channel
• eLearning/ICT Showcase
• Website toolkit
• Catalyst
• Intel Teach
• The Ultranet
• KnowledgeBank Next Generation
• Online conferencing
• Emerging Technologies

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ICT infrastructure

• high-capacity broadband network
• high-quality hardware (VicSmart)
• secure remote access
• Technicians in schools
• Notebooks for Teachers and Principals
• 40 hours of e-learning professional development
• Ultra-mobile devices for students
• IdeasLab

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KnowledgeBank Next Generation

• Portal to quality online resources for teaching
  and learning
• Web 2.0 trials
• Emerging technologies
• Action research
• SuperClubsPLUS Australia
• Intel Skoool

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ICT
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Action research St Albans Secondary College
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Online conferencing
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KBNG evaluation Trial Results Round 1
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Past, present, future....
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Next Next Practice Field Trials

• Paraprofessionals
• Leading schools
• New models of leadership
• Integration of early childhood and education
• Knowledge transfer
• Community engagement

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Thank you