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Term
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Definition
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Action Plan
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A short-term school performance plan developed by schools following an EIB priority support review that details the agreed:
- responsibilities and accountabilities for the principal, principal supervisor (or delegate) and EIB senior reviewer
- baseline, interim and targets in identified measures aligned to objectives
- strategies to achieve objectives, along with information about implementation and evidence of success.
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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 AIP links all short-term school performance plans, including the:
- Investing for Success agreement
- School Data Plan.
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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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Initiative
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The collective actions planned to achieve positive changes in learning and wellbeing. 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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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 in order to provide students or staff with access to experiences, support and intellectual and/or physical resources not available within the school.
Partners include school-based groups, such as the Local Consultative Committee, Parents and Citizens’ Association and School Council, and central and regional offices, including, but not limited to, the teams and branches identified in this procedure.
Partnerships may also exist between a school and other organisations, for example, other education and training institutions, early childhood and care services, local businesses, and community organisations (including transition planning, allied health, family support, counselling and rehabilitation services).
Parents, carers, kinship and families, including students, are recognised as integral partners in education.
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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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Principal 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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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 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 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
- 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 of 12 months or less. These include:
- Annual Implementation Plan
- Investing for Success agreement
- School Data Plan
- Action Plan (only for EIB priority support review schools).
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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 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 in Queensland.
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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Viability
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Ability to work successfully.
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