The Institute has now run 5 alumni Census surveys, giving a dataset of 2,336 alumni (44%) from the SSLP/ SSJP who have undertaken a survey.
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In 2024, the Stronger Smarter Institute ran the fifth alumni survey, the Stronger Smarter Census for participants in the Stronger Smarter Leadership Program (SSLP) and the Stronger Smarter Jarjums Program (SSJP).
The Institute has now run 5 alumni Census surveys, giving a dataset of 2,336 alumni (44%) from the SSLP/ SSJP who have undertaken a survey.
Program participants are asked to set themselves a Workplace Challenge to enact the Stronger Smarter Approach in their workplaces.
Across the five Census surveys, 85% of respondents reported that they had completed or were still working on their Workplace Challenge.
The story is different in every school. The priorities are different, the challenges are different, and the successes are different. However, each one is based on the same values and processes – taking a strength-based approach, rejecting deficit language, making sure teachers are all enacting the same high expectations, and building relationships across the entire school community.
Respondents describe how High-Expectations Relationships are infused throughout their daily work. Many respondents recognise the need to build High-Expectations Relationships with colleagues first before working on projects for change. Likewise, building High-Expectations Relationship with students, parents and families is an integral part of ensuring change in the classroom.
Our surveys show that the impact of the SSLP/SSJP reach much further than individual participants. After completing the program, alumni are working with their colleagues, building stronger, more collaborative teams that are working towards transformative change. As one survey respondent explained, an aligned team meant they could then create a safe environment for students. This is the starting point to build the quality learning environments that engage and support students in their learning.
A key component of the SSLP/ SSJP is to challenge participants to reflect deeply on their workplace practice to create a classroom environment where students are inspired and empowered to reach their full potential.
Data from our alumni surveys show that this is something that program participants take on board. Across our full data set,
93% of respondents told us they had made some level of change to their teaching practice.
For 73% of respondents this change involved changing their daily habits.
Enacting the Stronger Smarter Approach in schools is an ongoing process. It takes time. A school that starts a journey may need to pause when circumstances change. However, regardless of what is happening at the school level, Stronger Smarter alumni are changing their teaching practice, and this is making a difference.
Students are in classrooms where their teacher takes the time to get to know them, and they can see that their teacher believes in them. These students feel they belong, have high expectations for themselves, and believe in their own ability to achieve.
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