Please find a number of research reports and documents pertaining to this topic area below.  If you know of another report or document you think should be housed in our research library please contact the BGK LLEN.

Website page: OECD – Improving School Leadership
Source: OECD
Description:  School leaders in OECD countries are facing challenges with the rising expectations for schools and schooling in a century characterized by technological innovation, migration and globalization. As countries aim to transform their educational systems to prepare all young people with the knowledge and skills needed in this changing world, the roles and expectations for school leaders have changed radically. Effective school leadership is increasingly viewed as key to large-scale education reform and to improved educational outcomes. This OECD 'Directorate of Education' website section provides a range of resources, publications and toolkits pertaining to improving school leadership for the future.
Website link: OECD Directorate of Education

Title: Developing Student Engagement, Participation and Leadership – A guide for Principals
Author: VicSRC and VASSP
Source: Victorian Student Representative Council (VicSRC)
Release Date: 2010
Description: The VicSRC in conjunction with the Victorian Association of State Secondary Principals (VASSP) have developed a 'Guide for Principals' to encourage principals to support greater student participation, engagement & leadership within their schools. The Guide outlines how SRCs can be utilised in the development of student participation and leadership and how principals can best support their SRC.
Report download: Developing Student Engagement, Participation and Leadership – A guide for Principals

Title: A Directory of Training and Education Statistics
Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS)
Release Date: March 2009
Description: This directory is a guide to the range of national statistical resources available relating to education and training activity in Australia. It is designed to assist users to identify publicly available data collections, related publications, and other data releases. Collections are surveys, censuses, or administrative by-product datasets from which data are made publicly available. The directory covers all recent national ABS statistical collections which have education and training as a direct focus. It also includes a range of other national ABS data collections where the primary focus is not education and training, but which contain data relevant to education and training. Also included are national statistical collections and various publications or statistical series from non-ABS sources that analysts may find useful.
Report Link: A Directory of Training and Education Statistics

Title: Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) Preliminary Schools Australia Report
Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS)
Release Date: January 2009
Description: This release contains a summary of state, territory and national data for the broad categories of schools, students and staff at the 2008 school census date of the 1st August. More detailed data, including derived participation and progression measures, will be published in the Final publication, due out in March 2009, or in the detailed Data Cubes and spreadsheets subsequently published on the ABS website.
Report Download: ABS Preliminary Schools Australia Report

Title: Guide to Help Schools Increase School Completion
Authors: Professor Stephen Lamb and Dr Suzanne Rice
Source: Department of Education and Early Childhood Development
Release Date: December 2008
Description: Associate Professor Stephen Lamb and Dr Suzanne Rice have also developed a 'Guide to help schools increase school completion' that documents how the effective intervention strategies identified in the Effective Strategies to Increase School Completion Report can be implemented by schools. The Guide explores how schools can plan and implement the strategies to improve student engagement and increase student retention and how to put these effective strategies to work in the school and community.
Report Download: Guide to Help Schools Increase School Completion

Title: Effective Strategies to Increase School Completion Report
Authors: Professor Stephen Lamb and Dr Suzanne Rice
Source: Department of Education and Early Childhood Development
Release Date: December 2008
Description: The Report was commissioned by the Youth Transitions Division and developed by Associate Professor Stephen Lamb and Dr Suzanne Rice from the University of Melbourne. The Report identifies effective intervention strategies to improve student engagement and increase rates of school completion that are within the capacity of the school to deliver.
Report Download: Effective Strategies to Increase School Completion Report

Title: Teaching Talent: The Best Teachers for Australia's Classrooms
Author: Professor Stephen Dinham, Dr Lawrence Ingvarson and Dr Elizabeth Kleinhenz of ACER for the Business Council of Australia
Source: Business Council of Australia
Release Date: May 2008
Description: Teaching Talent: The Best Teachers for Australia's Classrooms, which calls for a five-point plan to recognise outstanding teachers and to lift the standard of teaching in Australian classrooms. The Teaching Talent paper, prepared for the BCA by the Australian Council for Educational Research, focuses on what Australia needs to do to raise the quality of teaching in all schools for the benefit of every student. It recommends: recruiting the most talented, capable and committed people into the teaching profession; introducing new national certification system that recognises excellent teachers and provides the basis for a new career path for the profession; a new remuneration structure that rewards excellent teachers and demonstrates that, as a society, Australia values the teaching profession; a comprehensive strategy that supports teachers in continuing to learn and improve their teaching throughout their careers; and, the introduction of a national assessment and accreditation system for teacher education courses.
Report Download: Teaching Talent: The Best Teachers for Australia's Classrooms

Title: Australian Education Review - The Leadership Challenge: Improving learning in schools
Author: Australian Council for Educational research (ACER)
Source: ACER
Release Date: April 2008
Description: Building communities of professional learners is the key to meeting Australia's school leadership challenge a new review of research has concluded. The Australian Education Review 53: The Leadership Challenge: Improving learning in schools, written by University of Tasmania researcher Professor Bill Mulford, was released by the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER). The review draws on papers from ACER's 2007 Research Conference and many other contemporary sources within the leadership research literature to address and provide a focus for the issues facing Australian school leadership.
Report Download: The Leadership Challenge: Improving learning in schools