Friday, September 4, 2026

9:40 AM - 10:10 AM

Eureka 2

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Overview

Find out what has made the difference for the most vulnerable students in our school system from a high disadvantage, disability diagnosis criteria, and rural location with limited external resources. Lake Colac School has been on the journey of fidelity of evidence-based instructional practices over the past 5 years. One of the challenges of providing Teresa Deshon impressive successful learning outcomes, with tangible results, is school growth. Over this time, the word got out! Through and beyond the COVID years, both the staff and student population increased by almost 60%. As a (now not so) small, regional specialist school, where 92% of families fall in the bottom-two quartiles of socio-economic advantage, maintaining consistent, low-variance instruction and expectations has been an unexpected challenge. Join Cameron in discussing what this implementation journey has looked like over these years and why, during a staffing crisis, this ‘hard-to-staff’ school punches above its weight. Hear about the systems and structures in place, the impact that this had on both students in the English and Maths results, along with its impressive post-school transitions of students into the workforce.

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