Improving Literacy and Numeracy
National Partnership
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Background
The Australian Government has committed
$243 million for 2013 to drive improvement
in the areas of literacy and numeracy.
The new National Partnership with States
and Territories builds on the previous
Literacy and Numeracy NP and aims to
support students who are performing at or
below the national minimum standard in
NAPLAN results.
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Background
The Improving Literacy and Numeracy National
Partnership (ILNNP) aims to achieve the following
outcomes:
• improved student performance in target groups
(including students from disadvantaged backgrounds
and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students) in
literacy and/or numeracy in participating schools;
• effective identification of areas in participating
schools where support is needed and where
improvement has occurred, through monitoring and
analysis of literacy and numeracy performance; and
• improved capability and effectiveness of literacy
and/or numeracy teaching in participating schools.
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Background
Over $50 million has been identified to improve
literacy and numeracy performance in public
schools in NSW.
The partnership operates across the 2012/13 and
2013/14 financial years with the FINAL REPORT due
to the Australian Government on 14 February 2014.
Each sector submitted lists of schools to the
Australian Government to take part in this new
partnership.
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Selecting schools
The final list of schools was formed by identifying
schools with the greatest numbers of students in
the bottom two bands on NAPLAN (an average of
2010 and 2011 results for Reading and Numeracy).
Schools involved in other significant programs such
as Early Action for Success or the Low SES National
Partnership were then removed, with the exception
of those schools coming off the Low SES National
Partnership in 2013.
This resulted in a final list of 400 Government
schools agreed to by DEEWR.
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Resources – tied grant
The schools involved in the Improving Literacy and
Numeracy National Partnership have been provided with
additional resources in the form of a tied grant.
The size of the grant is based on two factors:
• the size of the school and hence the number of
teachers involved
• the proportion of students in the school in the
bottom 2 bands in NAPLAN (2010 and 2011).
For example, over the life of the ILNNP, a school of 500
students with about 30% in the bottom 2 bands on
NAPLAN will receive approximately $170,000 whereas
one with 800 students with 45% in the bottom 2 bands
will receive $320,000.
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Using the tied grant
• The ILNNP tied grant and can be used
to provide additional professional
learning in literacy and numeracy.
• The funds must be used in accordance
with the Department’s Professional
Learning Policy for Schools – Section
6.8
• If you use this grant to employ a
casual teacher, CEPS Code 306 is
used.
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Website
www.ilnnp.nsw.ed
u.au
Schools can
provide feedback
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What schools will do
• Analyse the effectiveness of the current whole school
approaches in literacy or numeracy.
• Modify the current school plan to include specific whole
school actions for improving literacy and/or numeracy in
response to analysis.
• Develop a series of actions to improve the literacy or
numeracy outcomes of a targeted group of students within
the context of a refined whole school approach.
• Implement or refine a whole school approach in literacy or
numeracy.
• Principals discuss the actions with School Education Directors
and incorporate them in a revised 2012-14 School Plan.
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What schools will do (continued)
• Introduce or strengthen the use of the Department’s
literacy continuum or numeracy continuum
• Provide data –
• baseline data on the students' current progress in
literacy or numeracy by Friday 17 May 2013
• updated data at the end of program, Friday 29
November 2013
• Participate in processes to evaluate the program as
requested.
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Use continuum
Provide data
Evaluate program
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What are local measures?
Teachers use local measures to make reliable, on-balance
judgments against the literacy or numeracy continuum.
The same measures will be used at the start and towards the end
of the partnership to benchmark performance in either literacy
or numeracy.
The measures will include classroom assessments and specific
measures associated with the programs and strategies that
schools use, for example L3 or TOWN.
Schools will only be required to report on the literacy dimensions
of reading texts and comprehension or the numeracy dimensions
of counting as a problem solving approach and place value, not
both.
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Typical classroom literacy assessment
Year(s) of
schooling
Kindergarten
Methods of assessment typically used in the classroom
Years 1-2
Observation, teacher student interaction, hearing and recording
sounds in words, running records, Reading Recovery levelled texts,
writing, vocabulary, student work sample analysis
Years 3-6
Informal observation, systematic observation, listening, examining
and analysing work samples, miscue analysis, running records,
interactions (questioning, discussions, conferences, interviews,
collaborative and explorative talk), public speaking and debating,
surveys, video footage, tests, tracking and monitoring records
Years 7-8
Systematic observation, examining and analysing work samples,
listening, interactions (questioning, discussions, conferences,
interviews, collaborative and exploratory talk), public speaking and
debating, class and year assessment tasks including examinations,
surveys, tracking and monitoring records
Observation, teacher student interaction, hearing and recording
sounds in words, running records, Reading Recovery levelled texts,
writing, vocabulary, student work sample analysis
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Support materials
A website with up-to-date information on the
Improving Literacy and Numeracy National
Partnership – www.ilnnp.nsw.edu.au
Materials that will be available through the
website include:
• implementation guidelines
• a situational analysis
• advice about using the literacy and numeracy
continuums
• resources
• information on local measures
Website to come
Schools can
provide feedback
• reporting requirements.
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What are the timelines?
Friday 17 May
Provide baseline data to Early Learning and
Primary Education Directorate on template
provided.
Friday 18
October
Submit a description of the curriculum based
assessments used to monitor student
progress
Submit a revised school plan
Friday 29
November
Submit
• updated student data
• survey of student engagement results
• description of professional learning
conducted
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Data due
17 May and
29 November
Description of
assessments and
revised school
plan due 18
October
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Contacts
Peter Lorking
Assistant Director, Literacy and Numeracy Action Plan
9266 8270
peter.lorking@det.nsw.edu.au
Helen Evans
Principal Education Officer
Improving Literacy and Numeracy National Partnership
9244 5387
helen.m.evans@det.nsw.edu.au
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