[IA] News

How do we measure school success in 2020 — certainly not through league tables

Article by Loren Bridge
Alliance of Girls' Schools Australasia / 11 January 2021

WITH the release of Year 12 results, comparative league tables inevitably appear, pitting one school’s results against another. This is despite 2020 being a year like no other. Producing league tables is now a global activity that encourages everyone to use a single score to evaluate school performance. But missing…

Pedagogy

Teaching post-COVID: Using technology to transform your Drama practice

Article by Jodie Jurgs – Head of The Arts
Ipswich Girls' Grammar School / 11 December 2020

There is a lot of talk in the sector about the future of education and how we as a community should embrace what we have learnt from the global pandemic and apply it to reshape teaching and learning. As pockets of Australia now head back into lockdown, teachers are again…

Academics

Girls’ schools have the edge in academic outcomes – study

The Educator / 05 November 2020

As published by The Educator. A new report analysing Australian and New Zealand PISA data from 2015 and 2018 reveals girls at single-sex schools outperform girls from co-ed schools on academic measures, social and emotional outcomes, and other aspects of students’ well-being. The study, commissioned by the Alliance of Girls’ Schools Australasia (AGSA) and…