Victorian Literacy and
Numeracy Secretariat
Literacy and numeracy 6-18 month strategy: P-10
improvement schedule for school leaders
Audience:
•
School leadership team
Learning objectives:
• build familiarity with the Literacy and
numeracy 6-18 month strategy: P-10
improvement schedule for school
leaders
• develop an understanding of how you
can use the Strategy to support your
work
• develop an action plan for your work
in improving literacy and numeracy
outcomes.
Literacy and Numeracy in Victoria –
Key Resources
The Strategy in a nutshell
It is one component of Victoria’s approach to
literacy and numeracy improvement
It was designed to promote dialogue
It was developed to support 300+ schools in
receipt of National Partnership Smarter
Schools funding
It illustrates the minimum levels of action
required to ensure a school wide focus on
literacy and numeracy
It is not a checklist.
Structure
A practitioner’s story
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Lee Ann Green
Principal, Eastwood Primary School
Ordered sharing
Insert Digital story
• What is your initial response to the digital
story?
• What are some key ideas that you could
take away from listening to the principal of
Eastwood Primary School?
Reflecting on practice
• Highlighting
current practice
• Discussing the
differences and
gaps
What could this mean for our school?
•
•
Identifying the issues
Explaining what it all may mean
An Action Plan
• Useful for all members of the
leadership team
• Break down into meaningful
components
• Focuses on the essential aspect –
the actions taken
What
Who
When
Literacy
Leader with
team / level
leaders
Weekly
meetings
rotating
between
APT / after
school
How
Resources to utilise
What will success look like?
Strengthening PLTs
– develop teacher
capacity to analyse
student data by
cross referencing
Using Key
Characteristics of
Effective Literacy
and Numeracy
Teaching – develop
capacity in planning
and instruction
Using the Equity
Guidelines –
develop capacity in
the specific
demands of literacy
and numeracy
education for
students from low
SES backgrounds
Provide
relevant year
level docs
Create a
school process
by developing
model unit
together
Key Characteristics
docs (online), Year
level curriculum
outline. All to bring
laptops to access
additional
resources
By mid Nov: Year level
leader facilitating literacy
learning at their team
meetings
2012 Staff opinion survey
demonstrates an increase
of role clarity for team
leaders
What
Who
When
How
All teachers
working
within the
Science
Domain
Scheduled Provide sessions
on the literacy
Domain
meetings, demands of
with support Science, develop
of Domain a Domain
planning process,
leader (as
develop “how to”
required)
docs to support
Resources to utilise
What will success look like?
Strengthening PLTs
– develop teacher
capacity to analyse
student data by
cross referencing
Using Key
Characteristics of
Effective Literacy
and Numeracy
Teaching – develop
capacity in planning
and instruction
teachers
Using the Equity
Guidelines –
develop capacity in
the specific
demands of literacy
and numeracy
education for
students from low
SES backgrounds
Key Characteristics
docs (online),
Domain level
curriculum outline.
All bring laptops to
access additional
resources
2012 all Science planning
meetings and documents
will include literacy
considerations;
literacy demands of
Science support material
will be completed and
shared
Developing your own action plan
• Select one component of the
Strategy in a term
• Locate what you have responsibility
for doing
• Using the template, begin
developing your action plan
• Work one task all the way through to
success on the template
• Tip: look in other terms for more
information
Evaluating the Strategy
• Using the Strategy is not an ‘extra’
and should not be evaluated on its
own
• Evaluate its effectiveness in
supporting your planning through
your current reflection processes
• Use the resources provided by the
School and Network Accountability
and Improvement Frameworks.
Contact us
• www.education.vic.gov.au/vlns
• vlns@edumail.vic.gov.au