Partnerships in education

Our Fostering Strong School-Community Partnerships award winner for 2024 is ENABLE – a coalition of 14 state secondary schools in Logan, Queensland. In this article, we learn more about their partnership with local council, businesses, and more, to address youth unemployment in the community.

When you’re planning a unit of work for your students, there may be opportunities to include a local trip to support the learning outcomes. Recent research from ACER shows the most popular local learning destinations in Australia and New Zealand for some schools participating in Children’s University, a program designed to engage students aged 5-18 in out-of-school learning enrichment activities.

‘School leaders expressed a need for better-prepared new teachers who could integrate smoothly into the Independent school environment … [the program creates] a pipeline of qualified teachers who are already familiar with the school's culture and practices.’ In today’s article, we look at a new mentorship program addressing staffing needs.

Teachers at Queensland’s Balmoral State High School have been working with academics to carry out action research into student use of AI tools and their motivation for doing so. In today’s reader submission, Georgia Wignall and Emma Hart share findings from a literature review and student survey.

Fair go, respect, inclusion and mateship – working collaboratively in a team. These are the Aussie values primary school children are being encouraged to demonstrate in a national schools’ competition to create an innovative way of re-using plastic bottles – with $20,000 worth of classroom stationery prizes up for grabs.

In this episode of School Improvement Editor Jo Earp is joined by Jake Compton, Director of Academic Culture and a teacher in the Senior School at Canterbury College, which has been working with academics at the UQ Learning Lab since 2020. We’ll be talking about some of the projects, how they’ve evolved over the years, and the challenges along the way.

In this episode of our Global Education podcast, Editor Jo Earp talks to Lead Practitioner Sarah Childs and Associate Professor Kerry Chappell about their involvement in England’s Creativity Collaboratives partnership program, including the important role of teachers as action researchers, and details of the Toolkit resources developed to help others.

Highly effective schools enhance student outcomes by fostering strong 2-way partnerships. In this podcast Dominique Russell is joined by Lesley Johnson from Trinity College in Adelaide, and Simon Leonard from the University of South Australia to discuss the success of their partnership that has been ongoing since 2017, including how it’s improving practice for both school and university staff.

‘Increasingly, schools will need to support their young people to not just develop content knowledge and skills through effective learning, but also ensure their students know how to learn, individually and with others.’ Today’s article shares how the UQ Learning Lab is helping educators to set their students up for success at school and in life.

Is your school developing students that have the skills to thrive in work or further study after graduation? We spoke to one school that piloted a microcredential program, offering short courses to help their students build professional skills and habits that they can take into future study or work.