Sustaining+Change


 * Learning to Change - Changing to Learn**

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We have to develop a narrative that sustains 21st Century learning ...

Michael Fullan is an international leader on educational change. He has developed a number of partnerships designed to bring about major school improvements and is engaged in training, consulting and evaluation of change projects around the world.
 * Michael Fullan** []

//A TED video on the need for radical shifts in the way we think.//
 * Lewis Pugh's mind shifting Mount Everest Swim**

[|Lewis Pugh 2010]

//Improving Low-performing Schools reports on an evaluation of the USA's No Child Left Behind law. Schools that underwent significant improvement were found to use coordinated strategies and refine them over time. They also made substantial use of data. While replacing staff sometimes led to improvement, often it resulted in a number of unintended consequences. A number of schools struggled to improve due to a range of barriers. Recommendations include increasing funding caps, ensuring that improvement methods are appropriately tailored, that support from administrators at different levels be coordinated, and be continued for a number of years.// //Improving Low Performing Schools//
 * Improving Low Performing Schools**

//This report examines policy priorities that relate to building innovation capabilities through the use of information and communication technologies (ICT). The first section looks at the Australian policy context for digital education and highlights some emerging challenges. The second examines how digital education and economic policies intersect, and also looks at the role of commercial technologies markets in schools. The third section discusses how students build both their discipline-based knowledge and general capabilities, such as creativity, innovation and using technologies, while the fourth section looks at how students currently use technologies for learning and communicating with each other, and reflects upon the implications of these practices. The remaining sections examine what is needed to facilitate learning with technology, and the appropriate approaches to the deployment and use of ICT.//


 * DEECD Risk Management Framework**


 * DEECD 2009**


 * DEECD 2009 SAIF**