Secondary Learning Coherence Pathway
Build greater coherence across teaching, learning and assessment
Strong practice can exist across a secondary school without learners experiencing it consistently.
The Secondary Learning Coherence Pathway is a structured three-year, schoolwide PLD partnership, beginning with Years 9–11. It helps schools strengthen coherence across teaching, learning and assessment, with a shared focus on learner progress and outcomes.
Starting with your school's context and priorities, we work alongside you to strengthen the capability and systems needed for improvement to become increasingly connected, consistent and sustainable.
From strong practice to greater coherence
Lasting improvement depends on more than strengthening individual areas of practice.
The pathway connects four capabilities that support improvement across a school: leadership, teaching, cultural, and systems capability.
Together, these support movement from greater clarity, through greater consistency, towards coherence across teaching, learning and assessment.
The goal is more consistent and effective learning experiences, supported by practices and systems that work together for ākonga.
Start with what matters most
Using our tailored Self Review framework, evidence and learner outcomes, we build a shared picture of your school's strengths and current practice. Together, we identify a small number of high-leverage priorities for improvement.
These priorities shape a living improvement and evaluation plan.
Regular checkpoints help keep the work focused on progress and responsive to what the evidence shows.
Why three years?
A sustained partnership enables schools to do more than introduce change. It creates the continuity to implement, learn from evidence, refine practice and embed improvement.
Year 1 | Establish
Set direction, establish priorities and build strong foundations.
Year 2 | Implement and refine
Strengthen consistency, review progress and refine the work as evidence emerges.
Year 3 | Consolidate and sustain
Embed effective practice and strengthen the capability to sustain improvement.
EA support is intentionally concentrated in the early stages and progressively reduces as your school's capability, confidence, and ownership increase.
Structured enough to give direction. Responsive enough to fit your school.
Across the pathway, EA brings secondary expertise across teaching, learning and assessment, supported by a robust, culturally responsive framework for improvement.
Scheduled review points support ongoing improvement by helping schools assess progress, respond to evidence, and refine their focus over time.
Choose the support your goal requires
The right level of support depends on what your school wants to achieve and what it will take to get there.
Together, we establish what success needs to look like by the end of the pathway. We then determine the level of support needed to get there.
Pathway investment starts from $14,000 + GST in Year 1, with investment decreasing across the three years as school capability and internal ownership grow.
PLD can combine in-school and online support to suit your context. Additional travel costs may apply.
Start with the goal
The starting point is not the level of support. It's the impact you want to achieve.
Tell us what success looks like for your learners and school in three years, and we'll help map the pathway to get there.
