School strategic plans are multi-year and annual plans produced through regular school review cycles to communicate a school’s intentions for improvement. The Australian Education Research Organisation conducted this literature review to understand the features of effective school strategic plans.

Drawing on local experiences and examples from other parts of Australia and abroad, this report outlines how resilience can be boosted by fostering community ties and harnessing learning opportunities.

This action plan, outlines additional support and resources for public schools to prevent and respond to violent, aggressive or threatening behaviour. The plan builds on previous initiatives and creates greater understanding of the roles and responsibilities of all stakeholders in the school community to counter violence.

This snapshot explores variations in schools’ readiness to implement a response to intervention (RTI) approach to improving children’s oral language and reading skills. It is a collaboration between the Australian Education Research Organisation and the Centre for Community and Child Health at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute.

Australian states and territories independently implemented school closures as part of Australia’s successful COVID-19 elimination strategy. In this paper, the authors estimate the causal effect of pandemic school closures on standardised test scores in Australia, using variation in the length of school closures.