Ben Jensen’s Blog

Increasing the impact of evidence-based policy
Over past decades, the term, ‘evidence-based policy’ has come to dominate policy discussions. In...
This blog is about providing a new way forward for education leaders. It discusses the specifics of effective strategy, with an emphasis on tangible prioritisation and sequencing of reforms and how they interact with each other. This is discussed in a way that provides tangible steps that leaders can take to develop and implement effective policy reform.




It is my hope that is useful and improves the performance of education systems. That these blogs recognise and support the work of education leaders around the world.

Increasing the impact of evidence-based policy
Over past decades, the term, ‘evidence-based policy’ has come to dominate policy discussions. In...
Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result: why we need a new approach to education strategy
When the last PISA results were released in December, I wrote a blog post on how systems should...
Effective professional development policy
This is the first blog post for quite a while as the blogs I write didn’t seem appropriate with...
Improving professional development policy – Part 2
System leaders regularly tell me that they know that professional development (PD) isn’t really...
Responding to PISA
On 3 December the OECD released the latest PISA results; their assessment of 15-year-old students...
Improving professional development policy
A recent blog highlighted that teacher professional development continually fails to improve...
What do schools teach? It’s surprising how little we know
https://www.afr.com/news/policy/health/what-do-schools-teach-it-s-surprising-how-little-we-know-2019...
Policies working in interaction, not isolation, are the ones that count in class
My previous two posts in this blog talked about a process for system reform -- tangible steps...
It’s all in the detail: how improvement cycles lift schools and systems
Last week the first post in my new blog, Connecting policy to the classroom, identified two...
Connecting policy to the classroom
I have been lucky over the years to work with people across the globe who are giving everything...