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This chapter tracks the journey of the Lanyon Cluster of Schools as it grows into a vibrant, collaborative and innovative learning community. A crucial part of that journey was to incorporate the Learning by Design framework as our pedagogical framework in order to develop teachers’ capacity to design and implement quality teaching, and improve student learning outcomes. Learning by Design has provided us with a shared language and pedagogy, connecting students, teachers and schools, and ensuring learning is engaging, inclusive and transformational. It underpinned a professional learning community where collaborative planning and action learning became part of our everyday practice. Learning by Design also allowed us to enact and embed network and system initiatives, while maintaining constancy of direction and purpose.
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Bruce, M. et al. (2015). A Learning by Design Journey. In: Cope, B., Kalantzis, M. (eds) A Pedagogy of Multiliteracies. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137539724_4
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