Good To Great Schools

1. Good To Great Schools Our Innovation Approach Our innovation model is very special to our work and forms an integral part of our organisational strategy. It enables us to continue to offer products and services that are attractive and beneficial to our customers – students, their families, teachers, schools, systems, governments and supporters. There are three important elements to our innovation model:

2. We Are Shifting Our Approach To Radical Management Radical management is a way of organising and managing work so that it generates continuous innovation, deep job satisfaction and customer delight. It is suited to modern organisations that operate in a world of rapid change and competition. These individual elements are not new, but doing all of them altogether as an integrated approach is. Project Management That Supports Innovation Project management is hall mark of traditional management. This is the way projects were developed in the past. Project management is still necessary in our innovation model to support and serve co-design and radical management, but it does not of itself produce innovation. We use project management to get sufficiently organised, but it cannot stifle the creativity and freedom that innovation requires.

3. Our Board and Leadership Team Noel Pearson – Founder and Co-Chair Noel is an Indigenous Australian, who has spent decades advancing reform on native title, economic development and social policy for his people in Cape York Peninsula. He is Director of Strategy of Cape York Partnership and Co-Chair of Good to Great Schools Australia Elizabeth O’Leary – Senior Managing Director of Macquarie Group and Co-Chair Elizabeth O’Leary is a Senior Managing Director at Macquarie Group with more than 13 years senior experience in its business in Australia, the UK and Hong Kong. As Head of Agriculture for Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets, Elizabeth has been responsible for developing and managing the institutional investment platform. Bernardine is the former CEO of Cape York Partnership with a career working with Indigenous peoples, state and federal Governments on education and community development partnerships. She was instrumental in the design of the Cape York Aboriginal Australian Academy. Bernardine was the recipient of a Winston Churchill Fellowship to study education reform in the United States and received a scholarship from Harvard Business School in 2011-12. Bernardine leads the organisation with a strong focus on innovation and co-design. https://goodtogreatschools.org.au/about-us/our-team/

4. Our Partners The Australian Government Department of Education and Training is responsible for national policies and programmes that help Australians access quality early childhood education, school education, higher education, vocational education and training. They partner with Good to Great Schools Australia to deliver school reform in regional and remote schools in Australia. The current activity is the Flexible Literacy for Remote Primary Schools program operating in the Northern Territory, Queensland and Western Australia.

5. Our Partners The Macquarie Group Foundation provides support to community organisations globally each year through financial support, volunteering and skills sharing, predominantly in the locations in which Macquarie operates. They partner with Good to Great Schools Australia to support the Scaling for Sustainable Growth program The Origin Foundation support programs that use education to help break the cycle of disadvantage and empower young Australians to reach their potential.Theypartner with Good to Great Schools Australia to support the development and delivery of the Culture Domain’s Indigenous Culture and Language program. Vincent Fairfax Family Foundation is one of the largest family foundations in Australia, helping disadvantaged young people reach their educational and social potential.They partner with Good to Great Schools Australia to support the development and delivery of the Culture Domain. The Northern Territory Government Department of Education provides education to young Territorians from the early years to adulthood. It has a range of strategic policy, regulatory, delivery and support responsibilities including ensuring quality early learning and development programs to maximise student learning. They partner with Good to Great Schools Australia to deliver Class Domains’ Literacy and Numeracy programs using Direct Instruction and Explicit Direct Instruction pedagogies in remote schools across the territory.

6. CONTACT US Good to Great Schools Australia 302-310 Sheridan Street, Cairns QLD 4870 PO Box 1581, Cairns QLD 4870 +61 7 4042 7200 info@goodtogreatschools.org.au ABN: 93 141 269 016