Let's work together to achieve equity across our education system and its classrooms.

The Challenge

With the Alice Springs (Mpartnwe) Education Declaration our education system embraces a bold vision:

Our vision is for a world class education system that encourages and supports every student to be the very best they can be, no matter where they live or what kind of challenges they may face.

However, evidence and experience suggest this is far from being realised.

5+ years

The average gap in Reading achievement between our most advantaged and least advantaged students at Year 9.

Source: Grattan Institute, 2024.

57%

The Year 12 retention rate of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students compared to 80% of all students.

Source: ABS, 2024.

65%

The proportion of students from low socio-economic backgrounds who feel a sense of belonging with a school - a decline of 20% in two decades.

Source: OECD, 2018.

50%

The proportion of students from low socio-economic backgrounds who are 'doubly disadvantaged' in disadvantaged schools.

Source: OECD, 2018.

Who we are & how we work

The Education Equity Alliance is a Victorian-based not-for-profit organisation with DGR-1 led by experienced teachers and school leaders. We formally commenced operations in July 2024 following 18 months of volunteer-based work.

Our Vision

An education system where students achieve equity of outcomes no matter their background or circumstances.

Our Mission

To empower students and teachers from low-SES school communities

to be partners in system-change for education equity.

Our Theory of Change

Activities

If we empower students and teachers through systems thinking

And then we enable collaboration & action

And then we spread this learning to catalyse system-wide change

THEN this will result in the education system working more collaboratively and coherently to drive meaningful improvements in education equity (including improved learning, wellbeing & engagement outcomes)

Capacity-building workshops with students and teachers and undertaking shared systems-mapping drawing upon their lived experience and the wider evidence-base.

School Network

Convening a School Network of Victorian low-SES schools to focus on what matters most for improvement in low-SES contexts AND collaborating on change at both the school and system level

Collective Impact ('The Collective')

Building a coalition of organisations to shift systemic barriers to education equity in low-SES communities and enabling collective learning, action and advocacy

Knowledge Sharing

(ie. Forums, Annual Summit)

Advocacy

(ie. Advocacy Platform, Roundtables)

Term 4 Workshop:
High-leverage improvement planning for equity

Friday 21 November

9am to 12pm

Hybrid - Online & In Person

Drawing upon the leverage points for improved equity identified by the School Network, you will work alongside EEA's School Improvement Coaches and colleagues from across low-SES school communities to:

Consider relevant data points for improved equity in your context;
Identify critical levers for improved equity in your context;
Test and refine specific actions for 2026 (aligned to your school's Key Improvement Strategies); and
Clarify and test the assumptions these actions are based upon.

This workshop will be aligned to Victorian Department of Education annual improvement planning.

It is specifically for school leaders currently working in Victorian schools. We also welcome middle leaders to join and workshop a specific Key Improvement Strategy and set of actions they are responsible for.

Education Equity Alliance