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In 2013 Boronia Primary school and Boronia Heights College will merge to form a new K-12 school on the current Boronia Priamary school site. In 2011 two staff from the Primary School (Chris Kors and Davina Ashworth)and two staff from the Secondary School (Sandy Johnstone and Rachel Gardiner) are investigating P-12 and K-12 schools around the state. We are looking at how the schools are structured and how they operate in the new style Open Learning Spaces. We have been given 50 days of Teacher Professional Leave (TPL) to help better understand the best way to work in this style of school environment. Our TPL enquiry question is; How can we as a group of new colleagues build a professional learning community which enables us to work collaboratively and develop shared norms for positive teaching strategies within a K-12 setting?

Sunday, 26 June 2011

Mt Ridley College

Mt Ridley College opened in 2009 with 150 students, in 2010 they had 500 and 1040 in 2011. It is currently P-8 but grows by one year level each year, they will be P-12 by 2015.
The 5-8 Learning Community worked as one group for Numeracy, Literacy and "Neighbourhood" (An integrated program with Inquiry Based Learning). All other subjects operate as 5-6 and 7-8. Once again this is successful because of a large number of adults in the classrooms. They have a large number of graduate teachers which gives them extra funds in  the budget to employ extra support staff.

This year they have a TPL team working on planning curriculum for next year's year 9's. They will be a stand alone Learning Community with many of the activities based around careers etc that are traditioanlly done in year 10. The idea is that they will be better prepared for starting some VCE studies when in yr 10.

They have made a clear distinction in their leadership structure to separate Curriculum planning etc from Student management.
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