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Term
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Definition
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Annual Implementation Plan
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An AIP documents the school’s explicit improvement agenda over 12 months in relation to the priorities in the School Strategic Plan, and provides information about the actions to be undertaken and planned methods of evaluation. The AIP may also document the content, mode and timing of professional learning designed to support and sustain changes associated with addressing school improvement priorities within plans, and mandatory staff professional development. The AIP may also include information on how innovations are being trialled and how continuity of learning is maintained. The School Data Plan is included as an appendix to the AIP.
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Approve
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Indicate readiness for implementation or publication.
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Community
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All partners and school personnel (see also – Partners).
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Endorse
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Indicate support for (plan or budget).
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Explicit Improvement Agenda
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A domain within the School Improvement Tool, and Explicit Improvement Agenda is not a separate or additional short- or long-term school performance plan. It is documented within the School Strategic Plan and the Annual Implementation Plan.
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Initiative
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The collective actions planned to achieve positive changes in learning, engagement and wellbeing and build culture and inclusion. These may include, but are not limited to, professional learning, consultation and decision-making processes, resource or infrastructure development, events and activities.
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Kindergarten
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A part-time early childhood education program for children in the year before Prep.
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Long-term plan
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School performance plans with an implementation period of greater than 12 months. This is the School Strategic Plan.
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Methods of evaluation
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The way/s in which the plan, or initiatives within the plan, will be monitored. These can include:
- process evaluations to understand whether plans/initiatives are being implemented as intended, including what is working more or less well and why
- impact evaluations to understand what changes have occurred, the size or scale of those changes and the extent to which they can be attributed to the plan/initiatives.
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Other School Leaders
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Stream 2 (Heads of Program) and Stream 3 (Deputy Principals and HOSES) in the Department of Education State School Teachers’ Certified Agreement, school-based administrative officers (AO8) in the Department of Education Certified Agreement and school-based senior officers (AO8 and above) in the Senior Officers – Employment conditions.
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Partners
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Partners are the people, businesses or organisations with whom schools establish and sustain strategic relationships – partnerships – in order to provide students or staff with access to experiences, support and intellectual and/or physical resources not available within the school.
Parents, carers, kinship and families, including students, are recognised as integral partners in education.
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Partnerships
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The strategic relationships schools establish and maintain with partners.
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Plans
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Short- and long-term school performance plans.
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Principal
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The person in charge of a State instructional institution and accountable officer for school performance planning (including school budgeting), monitoring, reviewing and reporting.
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School Supervisor
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The Level 2 Reporting Officer, as indicated on the School profile overview page in the Department of Education Schools Directory (note: appears immediately above ‘Contact details’).
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Schedule of annual actions, timelines and additional information
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Documents the required actions and timeframes for school performance planning, monitoring, reviewing and reporting.
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School budget
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An annual estimation of revenue and expenditure, monitored quarterly and adjusted as required in response to monitoring information and decision making.
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School Council
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A school partner; an established School Council must:
- comply with the establishment, name, functions and other matters described in Chapter 6, Parts 1–10 of the Education (General Provisions) Act 2006
- be recorded in School Information Collection (Term 2, annually).
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School data plan
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Schools are required to maintain a variety of data according to the Schedule of collections. The school data plan documents this data - at a minimum it includes reference to the mandatory data sets associated with teaching and learning and outlines the ethical use of the data sets within the plan. It indicates how data will be used to inform practice aligned with student learning and wellbeing; school improvement and strategic planning.
School data plans are developed annually and included as an appendix to the AIP.
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School performance plans
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School performance plans is an overarching name for all planning documents and processes. They are the point-in-time physical or digital (or both) records of intended or enacted school performance planning. They have a range of purposes and durations.
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School Strategic Plan
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The School Strategic Plan (informed by the most recent school review) is the school’s succinct statement to its community about what the school wants to achieve in the future and how it plans to get there. School Strategic Plans include descriptions of:
- the vision and purpose of education in the local context (often referred to as philosophy in the early years)
- the values that students, staff and community are expected to demonstrate
- what the school is going to focus on over the next four years, with associated targets (the explicit improvement agenda)
- how the school is going to do this (strategies and resourcing).
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Short-term plan
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Plans with an implementation period less than 12 months. This is the Annual Implementation Plan which includes the School Data Plan (as an appendix).
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Stakeholders
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Individuals and groups (for example, school personnel, partners and other representatives of the community) performing a role or having a responsibility within school performance planning, monitoring (and enacting plans), reviewing and reporting processes (see also – Partners, Community).
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State Delivered Kindergarten (SDK)
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The program under which state schools operate face-to-face kindergarten in either a composite or non-composite class setting.
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State schools (schools)
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Institutions funded by the State of Queensland that provide:
- primary, secondary or special education to persons enrolled at the institution, or to persons enrolled at other state schools; and/or
- face-to-face kindergarten programs delivered through a State Delivered Kindergarten.
State schools include Schools of Distance Education, Community Schools, Educational Units, Specific Purpose Schools, Outdoor and Environmental Education Centres, and schools accredited with the Council of International Schools.
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Student
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Any person who is enrolled or attends a state school, and for the purposes of this procedure, includes a kindergarten age child registered in a State Delivered Kindergarten.
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Transitions
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The social process of continuity and change, unique to each student and their family, which occurs over time — from home to early childhood and care settings, into school, from primary to secondary (across every phase of learning), between schools, and from secondary to post-school destinations (further education, training and employment).
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Viability
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Ability to work successfully.
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