Brighter futures

Our focus areas

To achieve our vision, delivering excellence in every state school, for every student, we must maintain a focus on educational achievement, and belonging and engagement.

As we deliver our priorities and actions, everyone at every level considers these 2 areas of focus.

Educational achievement

 

Knowing and responding to each student’s learning needs is essential to making sure they are on track to achieve their educational goals.

Our common goal is for every student to progress in their learning each year to achieve individual excellence and to invest in the capability and expertise of our people to support them.

Belonging and engagement

 

Welcoming every student and supporting their unique needs, we create a positive culture that promotes a sense of belonging, wellbeing and safety to support their engagement in learning.

Our common goal is to create positive and inclusive teaching and learning environments where all staff and students feel confident, resilient and supported to thrive.

Excellence in every state school

Every Queensland state school is a school of choice where every student of every background, ability or culture is empowered to realise their full potential. True excellence is only possible when founded in equity.

Clear and consistent performance and accountability expectations support a shared understanding of how schools, regions and the centre work together to improve outcomes for every student.

Within a connected system, every school will deliver excellence through high expectations, a positive learning culture and quality teaching and learning across each phase of a student’s learning journey.

Our goals for every state school are:

• responsive and effective school leadership as part of a connected system
• promoting a positive culture of learning
• differentiating quality teaching and learning
• building an expert teaching team supported by a contemporary workforce
• driving an explicit improvement agenda, informed by data and insights
• targeting school resources to where they have the greatest impact
• leading curriculum implementation and getting back to basics
• implementing effective pedagogical practices
• providing mechanisms to acknowledge and be responsive to student voice
• collaborating within and across the school and broader community, including building school-community partnerships.

Our collective accountability

As part of our education strategy, a new Performance and Accountability Framework will detail our collective accountability and how we will measure impact at every level, related to staff wellbeing and morale, and workplace, health and safety.

Across our schools, regions and system, we will monitor:

 

• Workforce composition, attraction and retention
• Health, safety and wellbeing
• Staff morale

Our shared priorities

Across 4 shared priorities, we will deliver excellence in every state school, for every student.

Every student’s learning journey

Every Queensland state school will focus on key points in each student's learning journey to set them on a path to lifelong success:

 

Starting strong

Kindy to Year 2

Focusing on the foundational skills that set every child up for a positive learning journey.

 

Building on foundations

Years 3 to 6

Embedding foundational skills for lifelong learning and nurturing the confidence of every student to thrive.

 

On track for success

Years 7 to 9

Responding to the changing needs of adolescent learners to support every student to stay on track.

 

Ready for the future

Years 10 to 12

Preparing every student for their future and supporting meaningful post school pathways.

Our impact

As we implement our education strategy, robust monitoring is critical to ensure we are on track to achieve outcomes, understand the impact we are having and identify areas for further focus and improvement.

We will embed a consistent evaluation approach to inform better decision-making and investment, identify emerging needs and priorities so we can adjust our approach, be transparent and accountable, and contribute to our evidence base about what works best.

Our impact will be assessed through a combination of: