Victorian Literacy and

Numeracy Secretariat
Literacy and numeracy 6-18 month strategy: P-10
improvement schedule for school leaders
 Audience:
• School leadership team
Learning objectives:
• build familiarity with the Literacy and
numeracy 6-18 month strategy: P-10
improvement schedule for school
leaders
• develop an understanding of how you
can use the Strategy to support your
work
• develop an action plan for your work
in improving literacy and numeracy
outcomes.
Literacy and Numeracy in Victoria –
Key Resources
The Strategy in a nutshell
It is one component of Victoria’s approach to
literacy and numeracy improvement

It was designed to promote dialogue

It was developed to support 300+ schools in

receipt of National Partnership Smarter
Schools funding

It illustrates the minimum levels of action

required to ensure a school wide focus on
literacy and numeracy

It is not a checklist.
Structure
 A practitioner’s story

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Lee Ann Green

Principal, Eastwood Primary School
Ordered sharing

Insert Digital story

• What is your initial response to the digital

story?

• What are some key ideas that you could

take away from listening to the principal of
Eastwood Primary School?
Reflecting on practice

• Highlighting
current practice
• Discussing the
differences and
gaps
What could this mean for our school?
• Identifying the issues
• Explaining what it all may mean
An Action Plan
• Useful for all members of the
leadership team
• Break down into meaningful
components
• Focuses on the essential aspect –
the actions taken
What Who When How Resources to utilise What will success look like?

Strengthening PLTs
– develop teacher
capacity to analyse
student data by
cross referencing

Using Key Literacy Weekly Provide Key Characteristics By mid Nov: Year level
Characteristics of Leader with meetings relevant year docs (online), Year leader facilitating literacy
Effective Literacy team / level rotating level docs level curriculum learning at their team
and Numeracy leaders between outline. All to bring meetings
Create a
Teaching – develop APT / after laptops to access 2012 Staff opinion survey
school process
capacity in planning school additional demonstrates an increase
by developing
and instruction resources of role clarity for team
model unit
leaders
together
Using the Equity
Guidelines –
develop capacity in
the specific
demands of literacy
and numeracy
education for
students from low
SES backgrounds
What Who When How Resources to utilise What will success look like?

Strengthening PLTs
– develop teacher
capacity to analyse
student data by
cross referencing

Using Key All teachers Scheduled Provide sessions Key Characteristics 2012 all Science planning
Characteristics of working Domain on the literacy docs (online), meetings and documents
Effective Literacy within the meetings, demands of Domain level will include literacy
and Numeracy Science with support Science, develop curriculum outline. considerations;
Teaching – develop Domain of Domain a Domain All bring laptops to literacy demands of
planning process,
capacity in planning leader (as access additional Science support material
develop “how to”
and instruction required) docs to support resources will be completed and
teachers shared

Using the Equity

Guidelines –
develop capacity in
the specific
demands of literacy
and numeracy
education for
students from low
SES backgrounds
Developing your own action plan
• Select one component of the
Strategy in a term

• Locate what you have responsibility

for doing

• Using the template, begin

developing your action plan

• Work one task all the way through to

success on the template

• Tip: look in other terms for more

information
Evaluating the Strategy

• Using the Strategy is not an ‘extra’

and should not be evaluated on its
own
• Evaluate its effectiveness in
supporting your planning through
your current reflection processes
• Use the resources provided by the
School and Network Accountability
and Improvement Frameworks.
Contact us

• www.education.vic.gov.au/vlns

• vlns@edumail.vic.gov.au