Improvement & Development
Learning First has supported systems and schools around the world to develop and implement education policies and system improvement strategies, including teacher and leader development strategies, and training centers.
Insight and actions
Why does Ireland finish on the top tier of countries in work rankings? Their foundations for success are the same as nearly every high-performing system in the world.
The latest results in the OECD PISA on the performance of our nation’s students is good and bad news for Australia.
Article published in The Australian newspaper 9 December 2023
Learning First and the Australian Education Research Organisation (AERO) produced a series of practice guides to help school leaders develop and apply effective strategic plans.
Article published in The Australian newspaper, 3 September 2022
Article published in The Australian newspaper, 12 August 2022
Article published in The Australian newspaper, 6 June 2020
Article published in The Australian newspaper, 6 December 2017
Article published in The Australian newspaper, 3 October 2015
Article published in The Australian newspaper, 28 March 2015
Article published in The Australian newspaper, 14 May 2014
Schools
We support systems around the world with improvement strategies, teacher and leadership development, training centres, school improvement and planning initiatives, and the design of evaluation and data systems for continuous improvement.
Systems
We work with schools on their improvement strategies, school planning, teacher and leader development, including roles and responsibilities, and implementation planning, and monitoring and accountability systems. Our work is based on how the leading schools in the world operate, and the research on organisational change and improvement. We work closely with leaders on their work, supporting change at each level of a school.
Bigger reads
New data collected by Learning First shows that AI is routinely being used in schools now by teachers, leaders, and their students.
This report examines Ireland's education system, exploring the factors that have driven its consistently strong performance on international assessments over more than two decades.
This report, produced by Learning First in July 2020, examines how Victorian schools experienced the shift to remote and flexible learning during the COVID-19 pandemic.
This report begins with an overview of the latest research in leadership, which is primarily focused on business leadership. It finds that the best business research programs have the same characteristics as school leadership programs in the top-performing countries: they are highly contextualized and engage leaders in addressing real problems.
This report is the Australian edition of the 2016 international study Not So Elementary, commissioned by the Center on International Education Benchmarking at the National Center on Education and the Economy.
This is the Australian edition of Beyond PD: Teacher Professional Learning in High-Performing Systems. Support for this report came from The National Center on Education and the Economy and The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

