Preliminary Material / Vaughan Prain , Peter Cox , Craig Deed , Debra Edwards , Cathleen Farrelly , Mary Keeffe , Valerie Lovejoy , Lucy Mow , Peter Sellings and Bruce Waldrip -- Characterising Personalising Learning / Vaughan Prain , Peter Cox , Craig Deed , Debra Edwards , Cathleen Farrelly , Mary Keeffe , Valerie Lovejoy , Lucy Mow , Peter Sellings and Bruce Waldrip -- A Model of Teacher Adaptation to Open-Plan Settings / Craig Deed -- Using a Game-Design Project to Afford Teacher and Student Agency / Craig Deed -- A Whole-School Approach to Adolescent Wellbeing in Open-Plan Schools / Cathleen Farrelly and Valerie Lovejoy -- “It’s Not a Plug-In Product” / Vaughan Prain , Valerie Lovejoy and Debra Edwards -- Creating and Analysing Multi-Modal Texts in English Classes in Open-Plan Settings / Valerie Lovejoy , Lucy Mow , Stephanie Di Palma , Vaughan Prain and Debra Edwards -- Personalising Mathematics for Low Ses Students in Schools with Open-Plan Settings / Peter Cox , Bruce Waldrip and Vaughan Prain -- “They Can’t Just Google the Correct Answer” / Vaughan Prain , Bruce Waldrip and Valerie Lovejoy -- Personalised Learning and Differentiation in Studio Arts / Mary Keeffe and Valerie Lovejoy -- Using Student Voice in Social Studies/Humanities to Personalise Learning / Peter Sellings , Bruce Waldrip , Vaughan Prain and Valerie Lovejoy -- Developing Student Agency in a Teacher Advisor Program / Mary Keeffe -- Remaking Schooling through Open-Plan Settings / Vaughan Prain , Peter Cox , Craig Deed , Debra Edwards , Cathleen Farrelly , Mary Keeffe , Valerie Lovejoy , Lucy Mow , Peter Sellings and Bruce Waldrip -- Some Reflections / Anthony Edwards -- Index / Vaughan Prain , Peter Cox , Craig Deed , Debra Edwards , Cathleen Farrelly , Mary Keeffe , Valerie Lovejoy , Lucy Mow , Peter Sellings and Bruce Waldrip.

How can widely acknowledged challenges facing regional secondary schools with high concentrations of low SES students, ineffectual curricula, and poor levels of student engagement, attendance, and wellbeing, be addressed? In this book we report on key outcomes of the Bendigo Education Plan that aimed to improve the academic attainment and wellbeing of 3000 regional secondary students. This Plan entailed rebuilding four Years 7-10 colleges, and developing a differentiated and personalised curriculum, with teachers team-teaching in open-plan settings. We analyse how and why teachers and students adapted to these new practices. We focus on both generic changes in the schools, around the use of ICTs and the organisation of the curriculum, and on specific approaches to teaching and learning in English, mathematics, science, social studies and studio arts. This book provides research-based guidelines on how the curriculum can be renewed and enacted effectively in these and like schools. In analysing a large-scale attempt to address the challenge of making learning personalised and meaningful for this cohort of students, our book addresses larger questions about quality secondary curriculum and successful teacher professional learning support.

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