Key Findings

What has become clear to us is that although there is no ‘one-size-fits-all approach,’ there certainly are some key ingredients:

• a committed and engaged project team, who are both well positioned to make changes themselves and influence other key groups
• a well planned and executed project, that is kept on track with the benefits for learners at the forefront
• a willingness to work with others in a meaningful partnership for the benefit of learners
• a plan in place to share the work strategically.

Key Recommendations

• Projects should develop a professional learning community.
• Project leaders should communicate about their work within and beyond their organisations.
• They should use a framework for thinking about achieving sustainable change that takes their organisational context into account and that features initiation, implementation and institutionalisation phases.
• It is important to be realistic about the sort of change and outcomes project teams can expect over time
• Assessing and measuring outcomes using appropriate data is also important.
• Project teams should use Ako Aotearoa rubrics to develop and evaluate high impact projects.