The troubled state of the Tasmania’s education system has been known for some time. What is less known is the role Griffith University is playing in helping the state and its schools turn the situation around.
Professors Tony Townsend and Greer Johnson from the Griffith Institute for Educational Research and Anne Bayetto from Flinders University have partnered with Tasmania’s Department of Education for a large-scale project to deliver professional development to school leaders with Griffith’s Principals as Literacy Leaders (PALL) program.
PALL is a unique University/industry partnership because its genesis came from industry seeking a solution. The Australian Primary Principals Association originally engaged Griffith researcher, Professor Neil Demspter, to develop a program designed to help principals lead literacy reforms in their schools in 2009.
The PALL solution helps school leaders develop literacy intervention activities, based on their better understanding of the processes involved in learning to read, better use and analyses of data,
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