The Schools Attitudes Project is one part of the Foldback Project at the University of South Australia. The Foldback Project forms a framework for collaboration between The Centre for Complexity and Change in Leanring and the school sector. The name makes reference to music amplification where each musician is provided with the best mix of the music (in this case, the information) to support a high quality performance (Leonard, Fitzgerald, & Bacon, 2016). In a similar way, this project seeks to provide a mix of information that can improve school performance.

The Foldback Project is in effect a multi-scale partnership program. Our researchers from the University of South Australia work alongside schools to collect, analyse and report on a number of instruments including the Schools Attitudes Survey. These data are then shared with stakeholders in our partnering schools and shape data-driven conversations for potential change. Alongside this, our subject matter experts work with your teachers through formal professional development (in the form of a recognised Professional Certificate) to help these educators release their potential and realise these changes.

Ultimately, we recognise that schools have the contextual knowledge that compliments our technical expertise, and so to best implement lasting and meaningful change in a complex environment such as a school we hope to ultimately establish a relationship where teachers and leaders in schools become co-researchers in the problems and co-owners in the solutions facing education today.

Watch the video below to see how the data from the Foldback project can start a conversation in your school.

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