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Effective Schools

To achieve the vision of the Blueprint for Government Schools, the Victorian Government must build an excellent government school system, rather than a system with some excellent government schools. An excellent school system is one that is made up of effective schools that are continuously improving.

The characteristics that help make a school effective are broadly outlined in the model above adapted from the work of Sammons, Hillman and Mortimore (1995) (www.le.ac.uk/education/ESI/doc1f.html).

The overarching objective of creating and sustaining effective schools underpins all Blueprint strategies and initiatives. This provides all schools in the government school system with a shared purpose. The Blueprint reform agenda is a coherent strategy which provides school leadership teams with a range of tools and frameworks to make their school effective.

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