Proposed Reforms & Future Directions

Understanding the problem of student disengagement is only part of the work. This collection brings together the proposals, frameworks and emerging practices that are attempting to reshape secondary schooling in response to the evidence. 

From high-level arguments about the purpose of education reform through to practical models that schools and systems are trialling now. Technology is considered not as an end in itself but as one lever among several for personalising learning and building student agency.

Learners Without Borders: New Learning Pathways for All Students. (BOOK)

Decades of education reform have tinkered with curriculum, assessment and teaching methods — and largely failed to move the dial. In Learners Without...

How to Build an Adaptive Education System: Evolving Culture and Building Adaptive Capacity in Schools.

The uncomfortable truth at the centre of this book is that student disengagement is not a student problem — it is a system problem. When young people...

Transforming Education: Our Common Agenda Policy Brief 10.

The UN Secretary-General's message in this policy brief is unambiguous: education as currently constituted is not fit for purpose. Not marginally deficient —...

Student voice across contexts: Fostering student agency in today’s schools

This article argues that student voice only achieves its full potential when it is directly connected to student agency — that is, students' ability to...

The Pulse Playbook

This is a practical, practitioner-facing playbook designed to guide school communities through implementing "The Pulse Lab" — a co-design methodology that...

A new politics for transforming education: Towards an effective way forward

Drawing on interviews with former education ministers and senior policy advisers from eight countries, this paper argues that the central obstacle to education...

Beyond Voice: Students as Partners in Improvement

This research paper argues that meaningful student involvement in education must move beyond "voice" and even beyond "agency" to a genuine partnership model in...

Exploring Learner Agency

This context note synthesises Learning Creates Australia's body of work on learner agency since 2020, drawing on research, student voice and school case...

Why holistic learning and why now? Findings from the AISSA’s Innovative Models for the Recognition of Holistic Learning Project

This report documents findings from a multi-year project with South Australian independent schools exploring what holistic learning looks like in practice and...