2024 Action Research in Full Swing 

Our 2024 Action Research Professional Learning Project is now in full swing. After a quick refresher course at the project launch in Week 3, 20 research groups have now formed across all Strathfield campuses including Mary Bailey House. This year, teachers identified their topics or puzzles of practice based on a range of College teaching and learning priorities including whole school literacy, the 5Rs (Resilience, Self-Regulation, Resourcefulness, Respect and Responsibility) and innovative practice. 

With current topics ranging from writing across subjects and the science of learning to applying AI to pedagogy and academic resilience in the middle years, teachers will now spend time refining their research question, engaging in research into current best practice and identifying and gathering the baseline data they will use to measure the impact of their intervention. While critical reflection and reiteration of teaching and learning practices is nothing new to teachers at Santa, the action research process will continue to provide us with the methodology to be more collaborative, strategic and measured as we strive to develop and implement evidence enriched, high impact pedagogical practices. Stay tuned…

Kate Corcoran
Action Research coordinator and Social Sciences Teacher