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4 Corners - Out of control… new leader. Early 2008 – restored order - Whole school suspension and individual - Handle tough - Clear expectations - Create the right conditions so that learning can continue - Daily school attendance increase to 90% - Having a chat with the kids regarding behavior situation - Rebuilding a rapport with the student and the community - Teacher student relationship and having boundaries leads to increased learning - Change in attitude towards school no more dread - 2 teachers in class- development teacher offers feedback to the other teacher - Focus on teacher quality leads to academic accelence - Hattie – teacher quality as the key quality in academic excellence – schools to work with teachers - Autonomy if the school – leads to teacher development program - Principals should have the resources to make a difference - Teacher and environment help student to do well - Increased pride in school - Rich in tradition and history - Never changing but ever changing - Complacency – how to lift performance in affluent students - 2004 – all department heads have been replaced - Independent hence ability to chart their own course - Focus on teacher performance and the kids - Professional Development Unit – offers feedback to teachers - Targeted questioning - Student feedback encouraged - Openness and peer review- improve teacher quality - Enables teachers to re evaluate their teaching strategies - To make the students problem solvers not rote learners - OECD - top students slipping behind - Teacher mentors to the students – bringing out the information from within - English - study of Life! - Hire and fire teachers – not just providing answers to students - School should only have the best teachers - ability to remove teachers - 20 000 dollars from student – school fees
 * Quality teaching not getting the funding from the government
 * 2 public and 1 pte
 * Boosting teacher quality
 * **__Toronto Hiugh school – out of Sydney__**
 * __Knox Grammr – 2000 students__**

- - Pte funding goes to Pte school rather than state schools Both schools have made teacher quality the focus Govt spending money in the wrong places - Students lacked engagement and did not have goals for the future - Non English speaking background - Team teaching, mentoring and staff are assessed on a weekly basis - Need to observe about what is happening in the classroom - Principal able to hire and fire teachers
 * __Hume Central – merging of 3 schools = 35 million__**

Quality teaching Valuing education Student teacher relationship Active leadership – and head teachers – immediate consequences All the teachers showed leadership – was not really about uniform Uniformity of standards of expectations Principles having more power Peer review by teachers and students feedback – via moodle Immediate feedback from students on a regular basis rather than just on a weekly basis Team teaching – evaluation Team teaching, mentoring and staff are assessed on a weekly basis Teachers mentors – students need to be driven Re-enforcing for all students – challenging the students to do better Teachers care and support from colleagues
 * Comments from teachers**