A statewide case-management approach to improving literacy and numeracy skills

• This is a useful resource for schools concerned about students who are not attaining the English and mathematics achievement standards and interested in implementing the case-management approach. As described in the resource, an important part of the strategy used by Western Australian NPLN schools was the adoption of a whole-school collaborative approach to ensuring that the literacy and numeracy learning needs of all students were identified, monitored and met. The strategy laid the foundation for successful curriculum differentiation and improved student achievement.
• The resource is particularly useful in identifying the conditions under which the case-management approach can be sustained without additional funding. These include a pedagogy of differentiation and entitlement in the school's approach to teaching and learning; teachers working collaboratively in teams with coaches or mentors; evidence-based planning at the whole-school level; and a willingness by school leaders to formalise structures for collaborative planning and discussion through, for example, restructuring timetables for duties other than teaching.

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