8:30am – 9:00am
Registration
Learning Intention & supporting materials

9:00am – 9:05am
Welcome: Commonwealth Bank 

9:05am – 9:15am
Setting the agenda in the context of education policy in Australia
Anthony Mackay AM, CEO, Centre for Strategic Education (CSE)

9:15am – 9:25am
Introduction
Matt Deeble, Director, Evidence for Learning
Understanding of the conceptual models involved within the Evidence Ecosystem (the Impact Evaluation Cycle and the Wider Evidence Chain). 

9:25am – 9:45am
Impetus: A policy maker’s perspective
Robert Randall, CEO, the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA)
Understanding how to use NAPLAN data to generate evidence to identify and frame a specific improvement challenge. The session will provide an outline of the development and implementation of NAPLAN online, the links between Literacy and Numeracy as represented in the NAPLAN tests, as well as student growth as measured through the Literacy/​Numeracy continuum’s of the Australian Curriculum.

9:45am – 10:05am
Impetus: A school leader’s perspective
Cath Apanah, Assistant Principal, Montrose Bay High School, TAS
Cath Apanah will highlight the practical use of the NAPLAN data to generate evidence and identify and frame a specific improvement challenge. This session will draw on the Persuasive Writing Marking Guide by ACARA.

10:05am – 10:25am
Impetus data analysis: Practical session
Robert Randall, CEO, the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA)
Using NAPLAN data, this session looks at how to determine an effect size to generate evidence to identify and frame a specific improvement challenge. Attendees will be asked to identify a specific improvement challenge within their school.
Download the Effect Size Calculator spreadsheet (Excel, 24KB). 

10:25am – 10:35am
Impetus: Question time

10:35am – 11:00am
Morning Tea

11:00am – 11:10am
Awareness and analysis: A researcher’s perspective
Dr Tanya Vaughan, Associate Director, Evidence for Learning
Understanding of how to: consult various sources of information to determine one possible approach to the challenge; assess approaches for relative strengths and limitations relevance to context.

11:10am – 11:30am
Awareness and analysis: A school leader’s perspective
Kevin Mackay, Principal, Dandenong North Primary School (VIC)
Kevin Mackay will highlight the practical use of the Teaching & Learning Toolkit, looking at the awareness and analysis stage in the Impact Evaluation Cycle with a particular focus on the Mastery Learning approach.

11:30am – 11:45am
Awareness and analysis: Practical session with the Teaching & Learning Toolkit
Dr Tanya Vaughan, Associate Director, Evidence for Learning
How are educators using the Teaching & Learning Toolkit? This session will explore one approach in depth that is of relevance to your school. The choice of the approach is to be linked to the specific improvement challenge as identified by you.

11:45am – 12:00pm
Awareness and analysis: Question time

12:00pm – 1:00pm
Adopt and adapt: A researcher’s perspective
Dr Jonathan Sharples, Senior Researcher, Education Endowment Foundation
How do others adopt and adapt? Dr Jonathan Sharples will explain and give an understanding of guidance reports and their usefulness to school leaders during the adoption and adaption phase. This session will provide an understanding of engagement with the profession through: Campaigns (Teaching Assistants and Literacy); Research champions; Research schools and; Research learning communities.

1:00pm – 1:15pm
Adopt and adapt: Question time

1:15pm – 2:00pm
Lunch

2:00pm – 2:20pm
Implementation: A researcher’s perspective
Jordana Hunter, Fellow, School Education Program, Grattan Institute
This session will work focus on Grattan Institute’s report ​‘Targeted Teaching: how better use of data can improve student learning.’ It will look closely at how to: act, evaluate and adjust; implement an approach as outlined in a specific plan; collect data on effectiveness and efficiency of the approach to substantiate hypotheses and; use data to fine tune elements of the intervention.

2:20pm – 2:45pm
Implementation: A school leader’s perspective on how to act, evaluate and adjust
Jason Borton – Principal, Richardson Primary School (ACT)
Jason Borton will show the implementation of a model used at Richardson Primary School for providing feedback to students.

2:45pm – 2:55pm
Implementation: Question time

2:55pm – 3:10pm
Implementation: Practical session
Dr Tanya Vaughan
A practical session where attendees will map out a program logic for implementation for a chosen approach in the Teaching & Learning Toolkit that is applicable to their school.

3:10pm – 3:30pm
Afternoon Tea

3:30pm – 4:30pm
Forum: A panel of speakers including school leaders, researchers and policy makers, facilitated by Anthony Mackay AM
- Ed Roper, Deputy Headmaster, Brisbane Grammar School, QLD
- Helen Johnston, Dean ‑ Teaching Development, Brisbane Grammar School, QLD
- Helen McCullough, Principal, East Ayr State School (QLD)
- Dr Jonathan Sharples, Education Endowment Foundation
- Jordana Hunter, Fellow, School Education Program, Grattan Institute
- Dr Lee-Anne Perry AM, Executive Director, Queensland Catholic Education Commission
- Renee Cowpe, Deputy Principal, Hilltop Road Public School, NSW
- Ryan Dunn, Lecturer, Melbourne Graduate School of Education
Our panelists will discuss the topic: ​‘Understanding the importance of collective effort to ensure growth within the Evidence Ecosystem’. 

4:30pm – 4:45pm
Q&A
Facilitated by Anthony Mackay AM

4:45pm – 5:00pm
Closing remarks
Anthony Mackay AM and Matt Deeble