Good To Great Schools Australia

When they told Cath Greene about the change to Direct Instruction she was indignant. Everyone who had visited her little school in the red dirt north of Alice Springs seemed to love what she was trying to do with the kids. One of the nation’s top indigenous educators, Chris Sarra, called the classes beautiful. Ntaria School principal Cath Greene with Faye Ratara. Picture: Lyndon Mechielsen  There was just one problem. Four years after she became principal of Ntaria School, most of the children still struggled to speak English, let alone read it. Many were leaving for high school — or just leaving — with Year 1 levels of literacy and numeracy. Greene knew this couldn’t go on. Reluctantly, she agreed to give DI a go. Three years on, the results are in for Ntaria and 38 other schools in remote reaches of the Northern Territory, Western Australia and Queensland that participated in a $23.5 million trial of Direct Instruction teaching. The controversi...

Good To Great Schools Australia We're a not-for-profit organisation that supports schools on their improvement journey to transition from Poor to Fair, Fair to Good, Good to Great and on to Excellent. We support Australian education systems and communities to help their schools successfully delivery 21st century programs that meet the needs of all their students. We seek to support children from early childhood through to secondary school graduation . We have decades of experience developing and implementing innovative education solutions. Our education model is based on extensive research supported by international evidence. We invest substantially in innovation and continuous improvement through co-design with students, families, teachers, school education systems and education experts. We form strategic partnerships and collaborate with experts who have decades of experience in large-scale school implementations.

The 6C education model of Good To Great School Australia is designed to be delivered in any school and consists of Childhood, Class, Club, Culture, Civics and Community. Our outcomes can be achieved for children every day. Schools can adopt one or many of the 6C domains depending on what specific needs the students have that the school is not currently meeting. All learning programs have either been built to, or retrospectively mapped to, the Australian Curriculum. Schools are provided a detailed curriculum delivery framework that they can use to align to their schools curriculum plan. The 6C Explained    Childhood: The purpose of the Childhood domain is to address the social, emotional, intellectual and physical development needs of every child so they are as prepared for formal schooling as mainstream children. Good To Great School designed the domain to be relevant to schools where students start school behind their mainstream peers and remain well beh...