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Equity and Excellence

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Through the Alice Springs (Mparntwe) Education Declaration, we, as a nation, committed to equity and excellence in education—that all children and young people are confident, creative lifelong learners active in their community. Achieving our vision requires a collective understanding of what we all stand for and how we will make it a reality.

Excellence cannot be achieved without equity.

Equity and Excellence: Realising the potential of every student renews our focus on empowering our teachers and school leaders, investing in digital innovation, school performance, fostering collaboration between schools and community, and delivering sustainable investment in schools for the future.​

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Achieving our vision

To achieve our vision of equity and excellence, we will focus on the following areas.

Shared focus

We will have a shared focus on the following.

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Align school priorities

Every Queensland state school will focus on 4 key points in each student's learning journey to set them on a path to lifelong success.

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Create a stronger system

We will create a stronger system through key initiatives.

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How Equity and Excellence was developed

Education changes lives. Around the world, the undeniable case for better educational outcomes is increasingly recognised as the driver of economic and social outcomes. By leveraging the collective strengths of communities, families and cross-agency collaboration, we are working together to improve the lives of young people. We have a rare privilege and responsibility—the better job we do, the better someone’s life.

In 2022, the Department of Education undertook extensive research into the factors that lift school and system wide performance and equity, partnering with educational experts to undertake literature reviews and jurisdictional scans and commissioning market research into factors that influence school choice for parents and carers.

The Minister for Education, Minister for Industrial Relations and Minister for Racing launched targeted consultation on the new Education Strategy at the 2022 Principals’ Conference and Business Day. System leaders, including Queensland’s state school principals and key stakeholders, informed finalisation of the strategy and implementation design.

Education system leaders resoundingly support the vision of Equity and Excellence and a focus on educational achievement, wellbeing and engagement, and culture and inclusion to deliver a holistic approach to student learning throughout schooling.

Overwhelmingly, principals showed strong support for the strategic direction and focus on collaborative effort across the state schooling system and with other government agencies.

Over 1,200 state school principals were consulted.

  • 97% agreed with the 3 focus areas.
  • 95% agreed with school priorities.
  • 94% said system initiatives would make a positive difference.

State school principals said:

  • 'One system. One plan.'
  • 'We now have a narrative again that I believe will provide direction and focus to move the system forward collectively.'

We asked students to tell us what Equity and Excellence means to them and their school.​


References

Couros, G. (2015) The innovator’s mindset: empowering learning, unleash talent and lead a culture of creativity. San Diego CA: Dave Burgess Consulting Inc.

Hattie, John (2009) Visible Learning: A synthesis of over 800 Meta-Analyses Relating to Achievement. Routledge.

OECD (2020) ‘Taking stock of the present: Trends in education and schooling’ in Back to the Future of Education: Four OECD Scenarios for Schooling, Paris: OECD. Accessed at https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/sites/3f19568b-en/index.html?itemId=/content/component/3f19568b-en

Queensland Education Leadership Institute’s (QELi) 2018 Collaboration, Coherence and Feedback—24 April 2018 conference webpage. Keynote speaker information: Maggie Farrar.

Schleicher, A. (2019) Foreward to the OECD’s Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS) 2018 Results Teachers and School Leaders as Lifelong Learners Volume 1. Paris: OECD. Accessed at https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/sites/2c0d9903-en/index.html?itemId=/content/component/2c0d9903-en

Yong Z., Zhang, G., L., Jing, and Qui, W. (2015) Never send a human to do a machine’s job. Correcting the top 5 EdTech Mistakes. USA: Corwin, SAGE.

Zhao, Yong (2016) ‘From deficiency to strength: Shifting the mindset about education inequality’ in Journal of Social Issues 72(4) 716-735.

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Last updated 20 May 2024