TEACHING FOR AND LEADING TOWARDS GREATER ......“Equity in schooling means ensuring that differences in educational outcomes are not the result of differences in wealth, income, power

Little Bay, NSW29th April 2019

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TEACHING FOR AND LEADING TOWARDS GREATER EQUITY IN

YOUR SCHOOL

FACTS OR MYTHS?

Fact or Myth?

“The most important single factor in improving quality of education is

teachers.”Myth– “Waiting for Superman” (2010)

Fact or Myth?

“Around 9 % of variation in student achievement is due to teacher

characteristics.”FactGoldhaber et al., 2010

“The quality of an education system cannot exceed the quality of its

teachers.”- OECD, 2016

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primary purpose• Capacity to divert school energy and

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• Frequent monitoring of pupil progress

Michael FullanPeter Mortimore Ron EdmondsBert Creemers

Andy HargreavesDavid HopkinsBruce JoyceLouise Stoll

THE ORIGINS OF EQUITY

WHAT IS EQUITY IN EDUCATION?

“Equity in schooling means ensuring that differences in educational outcomes are not

the result of differences in wealth, income, power or possessions.”

- Review of Funding for Schooling (2011)

“Equity in education has two dimensions: Equity as inclusion means ensuring that all students reach at least a basic minimum level of skills. Equity as fairness implies that personal or socio-economic circumstances, such as gender, ethnic origin or family background are not obstacles to educational success.”

- OECD (2011)

“Equity in education is the means to achieving equality. It intends to provide the best opportunities for all students to achieve their full potential and act to address instances of disadvantage which restrict educational achievement.”

- UNESCO (2015)

WHAT IS EQUITY IN EDUCATION?

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Resilience

WHAT IS EQUITY IN EDUCATION?

RESILIENCE

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–OECD, 2018

“The highest-performing education systems … are those that combine quality with equity.”

MORE EQUITY, PLEASE!

“We can, whenever and wherever we choose, successfully teach all children whose schooling is of interest to us. We already know more than we need to do that. Whether or not we do it must finally depend on how we feel about the fact that we haven’t so far.”

-Ron Edmonds in 1979

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3Stop asking: “How good is Johnny?”

Start asking: “How is Johnny good?”

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