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Issues and challenges in school improvement

Issues and challenges in school improvement 1
Executive summary
The Australian schooling has undergone through major changes. It comprises the
standardized national assessments in literacy and numeracy, professional standards for
teachers and principals and an Australian curriculum. There are education policies to face the
issues and challenges faced in the school curriculum. This report comprises the brief
description of the Smarter School National Partnerships (SSNP) for the school improvement.
The report includes the contextual factors which influence the implementation of the
education policy. Al last the policy is critically analyzed.
Finally it can be concluded that the SSNP is capable enough to improve the performance of
the teachers as well as school. However the recommendations are given to further enhance
the effectiveness of the policy.

Issues and challenges in school improvement 2
The Australian education system has undergone through the major changes in the last few
decades through the education policies. These policies put implication on the school for the
improvement. The Australian government is also offering significant funds to improve
schools and for implementing systematic and sustainable education reform. The schools are
adopting new policies for the improvement issues of the schools. The smarter school national
partnerships (SSNP) provide significant funding in order to implement systematic and
sustainable education reform. This education policy aims to improve literacy and numeracy
outcomes along with strengthening the capacity and driving quality and improvement in
teaching. The partnership is achieving significant reform at the national, state and local
school community levels (Ahmmed & Mullick, 2014). This education policy deals with the
school improvement issues at K-12 settings. “The schools in Australia faces the problem of
the professional standards for teachers and principals”. Additionally, there is a lack of school
curriculum and standardized national assessments in the literacy and numeracy. The SSNP
provides funding to implement systematic and sustainable education reform to improve
literacy and numeracy outcomes and drives quality and constant improvement in teaching.
The national partnerships are achieving significant reforms at the community levels. The
professional development of the principals, leaders, teachers, other staff and the on-going
professional learning outcomes influences the implementation of the education policy. The
policy aims to improve the performance of the school by enhancing the performance of the
staff. It focuses on fostering and supporting the on-going professional learning communities
(Chodkiewicz & Boyle, 2017). The education policy induces into working in partnerships
with schools and trains to students on a student mentoring role. The national and numeracy
national partnership is adopted with the aim of literacy or numeracy improvement. It
strengthened the leadership in principals and improved learning cultures in schools. The
major stakeholders involved in the education policy are teachers, students, and parents.
There are three reforms of the smarter schools national partnership such as for literacy and
numeracy, for low-socioeconomic status school communities and for improving teacher
quality. The national partnership for literacy and numeracy supports teachers and schools to
focus on the approaches which are effective in improving literacy and numeracy outcomes of
the students. It causes to improved outcome of the students and boosted the capacity of the
students. This policy helps school leaders to make well-versed decisions about the best
strategies for the school and students. The policy funds a range of approaches which leads to
improvement in literacy and numeracy outcomes of the targeted students and school. The