Lighthouse project
The Best Start Lighthouse Project will celebrate and connect those schools that are making significant and sustained progress in student achievement in the early years of schooling.
The goal for the project is for the Lighthouse schools to network with other schools that have similar backgrounds and challenges, in order to share successful strategies for improving student early learning in literacy and numeracy.
The successful lighthouse schools:
- use research-based strategies during large blocks of uninterrupted learning time for literacy and numeracy instruction
- demonstrate strong student performance across the early years of schooling as seen in their National Assessment Program – Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) data
- possess a clear focus on student learning and performance
- examine and analyse data to help bridge the gap for specific groups of students.
The selected schools will participate during 2009 with the opportunity to extend their involvement for an additional year. This process will be repeated for 2010 and beyond allowing up to an additional 30 schools to participate in the project.
Lighthouse schools will be supported to:
- showcase literacy and numeracy teaching programs
- participate and lead in discussion groups with communities of schools
- trial and refine new classroom practices.
K-4 Initiatives Unit will be responsible through regional Best Start consultants and Literacy and Numeracy leaders for the coordination of the project.
 | Best Start Lighthouse Project 2009 |  | Beacons of excellence Side by Side, Issue 28 September 2009 |
2009 Best Start Lighthouse schools
Hunter/Central Coast | |
Illawarra South East | |
New England | |
North Coast | |
Northern Sydney | |
Riverina | |
South Western Sydney | |
Sydney | |
Western Sydney | |
Western New South Wales |
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