Participating schools from the Step Up Project share their Step Up stories. The podcast aims to help school leaders, SSE leaders and teachers interested in moving their practice from effective to highly effective.

Individual school reports, overall composite report and videos from participating schools are available on the www.stepupproject.ie

This podcast:

03:00 | Hopes for the project

06:00 | Identifying a focus and gathering evidence

14:25 | Positive impacts of the project (Teachers/Leaders)

18:35 | Positive impacts of the project (Students)

23:50 | Reflection and key learning

Overview of the project:

The overarching aim of the Step Up Project was to support schools already at an effective level of implementation of the Framework for Junior Cycle (2015) to move to a highly effective level. The nine schools involved in the project were given the time to reflect on teaching, learning, assessment and reporting in three subject areas and to identify how the quality of provision and implementation, both for those specific subjects and for the overall Framework for Junior Cycle, can be raised to the highest level.

Schools participating in the project were required to take a school self-evaluation approach in reviewing their current implementation of the Framework in one or more of three subject areas: English, Business Studies and Science. Schools were encouraged to identify areas for improvement and were supported in developing and implementing actions leading to improvement in their chosen areas.