Improving Literacy and Numeracy
National Partnership
Updated 28 February 2014
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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 National Partnership
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.
DEC evaluation processes ongoing during 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 402 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 will 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 schools use this grant to employ a casual
or temporary teacher, CEPS Code 306 should
be used.
• NB From 2014, the 229 ELSNP schools
should use CEPS Code 038 for teaching staff
and 052 for non-teaching staff.
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Website
www.ilnnp.nsw.ed
u.au
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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 the Director, PSNSW and
incorporate the actions in the revised 2012-14 School Plan.
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What schools will do (continued)
• Introduce or strengthen the use of the Department’s
Literacy or Numeracy Continuum K-10
• Provide data –
• baseline data on the students' current progress in
literacy or numeracy by Friday 17 May 2013
• updated data by Friday 29 November 2013 and
Friday 20 June 2014 and
• final data at the end of program, Friday 28
November 2014.
• 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 K-10
Continuums.
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
• reporting requirements.
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What are the 2014 requirements?
Term 1
Friday 11
April 2014
Term 2
Friday 20
June 2014
Term 4
Submit:
 Approved 2014 School Plan

Assessment data regarding students that were
targeted in 2013

Description of curriculum-based assessment
used to monitor student progress
Description of professional learning conducted
Description of sustainable school-based
initiatives which will be ongoing after the
ILNNP is finalised.
Friday 31

October 2014 
Term 4
Friday 28
November
2014

Assessment data regarding students that were
targeted in 2013
Optional: Complete voluntary student and teacher
Engagement surveys on Survey Monkey.
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Contacts
Peter Lorking
Assistant Director, Literacy and Numeracy
9244 5600
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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