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Summary of Progress and the Next Steps

To date, through my work with our school reviewer and as the architect of my school 2010-13 Strategic Plan, I have obtained community support - my team, the staff, students, and parents - to seek to address this area as an imperative for improvement as demonstrated by our school data. To test the veracity of the Department results, I have re-run the survey across the 5/6 cohort in August 2009. While the survey was conducted with anonymity, participants had to identify a gender and a year level. This also has the advantage that I was able to collect data by grade group - a level of disaggregation the Departmental survey does not provide.

The next stage is to develop some key steps to try as part of the 2010 Annual Implementation Plan to be developed in term 4 2009. The goal is to prepare this term before term1 2010 and a new Department Attitude to School's survey with a new cohort. I will also widen my worldwide literature review in the first half of 2010 to inform the development of the key implementation strategies that will make the greatest gains.