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I can provide draft evaluations, reports and plans, funding applications within your templates, by deadlines.

I can analyse SCAN/NAPLAN for your target groups of students separately; such as your selective stream or GATS. Then report specific gains the following year.

Review your operation by looking at indicators of achievement of its goals or targets, not by looking at its structure.

Spend on the single maintenance item which parents most want fixed.

Use your results data for publicity in a different way from your diagnostic use of data.

Talk with your SRC when things are going smoothly; they best can take responsibility for targets then.

Upskill your Year Advisers in project management approach; so that students regularly run school events and give students complete responsibility for program and outcomes.

Farm out that difficult target to a young staff member looking for experience who is not on the executive.

In a small school, have no committees!

Turn MySchool into MyFriend; use this very public data to your advantage!

Do away with events which use the valuable time for questionable returns - possibly those regular assemblies.

Automate tasks which are repetitive and divert from essentials (what a difference electronic recording and reporting makes!)

• Train staff in assessing the work of students with disabilities against their own learning plans, on common scales.

Clearly define projects to achieve specific goals; then offer the projects to volunteer leaders from across the staff.

Train staff in deconstructing student involvement in school events such as stage productions or websites. Then their efforts can be evaluated on explicit criteria that are syllabus-related; give them credit for those skills!