Publications

Our Story

Learn more about our solutions, work and results.

School Transformation

This document provides an overview of Good to Great Schools Australia’s unique offering to schools.

Malpa Performing Arts

Learn about our Malpa Performing Arts program. 

Mastery Teaching Pathway

Learn more about Good to Great Schools Australia’s unique professional learning platform.

School support through a Tailored School Implementation 

Our training packages support teaching professionals to be great teachers delivering effective instruction to every child.

Effective Instruction – The keystone to school reform 

Education policy position of Good to Great Schools Australia in Effective Instruction: The keystone to school reform.

Effective Teaching Factsheet 

Good to Great Schools Australia delivers effective teaching, which uses well-crafted, well-taught lessons to assist teachers in delivering effective instruction that significantly lifts student achievement. 

Effective Teaching – A primary teacher’s perspective

This case study runs through Miss Evans’ day, from preparing before school to ensure she is ready to teach ‘bell-to-bell’ to delivering various sessions throughout the day, including curriculum subjects such as Maths, Reading, Writing, Spelling and Science.

Effective Teaching – A foundation teacher’s perspective

This case study runs through Miss Hoek’s day at a primary school in Cape York.

Effective Teaching: A principal’s perspective

Within ‘Direct Instruction: A principal’s perspective’, we take a look at a typical day for one of our principals.
At the time of writing, Finn Buckley was a principal of Cape York Aboriginal Australian Academy’s Hope Vale Campus.

Resource Guide

 

Good to Great Schools Australia Submission to the Quality Initial Teacher Education Review

This submission focused on the needs of remote, regional and indigenous-majority schools.

Report review: The Case for Urgency: Advocating for Indigenous Voice in Education

Our response to ACER’s report “The Case for Urgency: Advocating for Indigenous Voice in Education” taking CYAAA as an example when addressing case studies of educational programs.

The most important reform

An agenda for complementing ‘learning demand’ side reforms effective by the Cape York Welfare Reforms with ‘teaching supply’ side reforms, through the establishment of a specialist K-7 remote schools provider under the aegis of a statutory board led by Noel Pearson, which has legislative delegation within the Queensland public schools system to provide education where parent communities support alternative provisioning.

Yes, DI Did It!: The impact of Direct Instruction on literacy outcomes for Very Remote Indigenous schools

Journal article by Noel Pearson and published in the Cambridge Journal of Indigenous Education outlining the significant impact of Direct Instruction on literacy outcomes for Very Remote Indigenous Schools participating in the Literacy in Remote Schools program.

Shifting Away from Distractions to Improve Australia's Schools: Time for a Reboot

The need for a reboot in our education system. Australia is among the World’s biggest losers in literacy and numeracy. We are overly focused on school differences; the steps to reboot our education system.

The Science of Reading

This eBook discusses how the brain works to read and how teaching techniques can influence cognitive patterns to implement effective reading strategies.

This document provides an overview of Good to Great Schools Australia’s unique offering to schools.

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