Glenn Savage
@glennsavage.bsky.social
Professor of Education Futures at the University of Melbourne. Policy sociologist, researcher and critical pragmatist. I work with schools and systems to imagine, design and lead better futures.
Since the Gonski report was released in 2011, a generation of young Australians has started kindergarten and finished Year 12 while we have failed to put in place the political arrangements needed to fully fund public schools in line with the national Schooling Resource Standard (SRS). #EduSkyAU
A6. Agreed - full funding asap is the first critical enabler. I observe wonderful school leaders spending so much energy and time finding ways to manage despite the funding limitations. This energy could be liberated to innovate and serve a whole generation of kids before 2034. #EduSkyAU
May 27, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Since the Gonski report was released in 2011, a generation of young Australians has started kindergarten and finished Year 12 while we have failed to put in place the political arrangements needed to fully fund public schools in line with the national Schooling Resource Standard (SRS). #EduSkyAU
And, on this note, it was a privilege to contribute to a story on last night's episode of ABC’s 730 by Norman Hermant and help bring national attention to this critical challenge. #EduSkyAU iview.abc.net.au/video/SEGS20...
May 27, 2025 at 10:28 AM
And, on this note, it was a privilege to contribute to a story on last night's episode of ABC’s 730 by Norman Hermant and help bring national attention to this critical challenge. #EduSkyAU iview.abc.net.au/video/SEGS20...
Here's a crazy idea: Fund all schools to the minimum standard under Gonski FASTER, not by 2034. Delay is not neutral. It’s a political choice that deepens inequity. Let’s fast-track funding for fairness #EduSkyAU
The final Q for tonight's chat... c'mon people, tell me what you really think and want!: Q6. What’s one bold policy change you’d make today to better prepare our schools for tomorrow? #EduSkyAU
May 27, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Here's a crazy idea: Fund all schools to the minimum standard under Gonski FASTER, not by 2034. Delay is not neutral. It’s a political choice that deepens inequity. Let’s fast-track funding for fairness #EduSkyAU
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The final Q for tonight's chat... c'mon people, tell me what you really think and want!: Q6. What’s one bold policy change you’d make today to better prepare our schools for tomorrow? #EduSkyAU
May 27, 2025 at 10:24 AM
The final Q for tonight's chat... c'mon people, tell me what you really think and want!: Q6. What’s one bold policy change you’d make today to better prepare our schools for tomorrow? #EduSkyAU
The final Q for tonight's chat... c'mon people, tell me what you really think and want!: Q6. What’s one bold policy change you’d make today to better prepare our schools for tomorrow? #EduSkyAU
May 27, 2025 at 10:24 AM
The final Q for tonight's chat... c'mon people, tell me what you really think and want!: Q6. What’s one bold policy change you’d make today to better prepare our schools for tomorrow? #EduSkyAU
And... now Q5, which takes us to the heart of context and the communities in which education happens: How might we work with students, families, and communities to co-design education futures? #EduSkyAU
May 27, 2025 at 10:14 AM
And... now Q5, which takes us to the heart of context and the communities in which education happens: How might we work with students, families, and communities to co-design education futures? #EduSkyAU
Having just come from a week of intensive work with school leaders in South Australia, this next question is very present in my mind: Q4. What unique role do school leaders play in turning future-focused ideas into action? #EduSkyAU
May 27, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Having just come from a week of intensive work with school leaders in South Australia, this next question is very present in my mind: Q4. What unique role do school leaders play in turning future-focused ideas into action? #EduSkyAU
I agree 100%%%%%%% #EduSkyAU
A2. For an innovation culture to truly take root, it has to feel safe to experiment and fail without negative consequence. Governments could examine how they might be making it unsafe for schools & educators to fail, and consider how they can encourage safe-to-fail experiments and learning #EduSkyAU
May 27, 2025 at 10:05 AM
I agree 100%%%%%%% #EduSkyAU
I'm not sure how useful this is, but I put together this video recently on evidence use in education #EduSkyAU: www.google.com/url?sa=t&sou...
Glenn Savage on evidence use in education: EEBP Symposium
Associate Professor Glenn C. Savage (University of Melbourne) offers a 10 minute provocation on understandings and uses of evidence in education reform. Prepared for the Educative Evidence-Based Practice (EEBP) Symposium in Music Education: https://www.sydney.edu.au/music/our-research/music-education/educative-evidence-based-practice-in-music-education.html
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May 27, 2025 at 10:03 AM
I'm not sure how useful this is, but I put together this video recently on evidence use in education #EduSkyAU: www.google.com/url?sa=t&sou...
Ok, so I could stay on Q2 all night, but here's a third one that really is just as important: Q3. What role should evidence play in shaping education futures? #EduSkyAU
May 27, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Ok, so I could stay on Q2 all night, but here's a third one that really is just as important: Q3. What role should evidence play in shaping education futures? #EduSkyAU
And for me, there is a greater need to actually reframe the role of the state: rather than being the sole author of reform, governments can act as stewards and enablers—creating conditions that support local experimentation and shared learning. #EduSkyAU
And you've probably all heard me say this before, but we need to shift focus from ‘what works’ to ‘what might work here’: Innovation needs to be context-sensitive. The best ideas often emerge from within schools and systems that are trusted to take risks and experiment and reflect #EduSkyAU
A2. Governments must shift from being gatekeepers of change to enablers of context-driven innovation. Provide flexible policy frameworks, protect professional agency, and stop measuring transformation with yesterday’s metrics. #EduSkyAU
May 27, 2025 at 9:55 AM
And for me, there is a greater need to actually reframe the role of the state: rather than being the sole author of reform, governments can act as stewards and enablers—creating conditions that support local experimentation and shared learning. #EduSkyAU
And you've probably all heard me say this before, but we need to shift focus from ‘what works’ to ‘what might work here’: Innovation needs to be context-sensitive. The best ideas often emerge from within schools and systems that are trusted to take risks and experiment and reflect #EduSkyAU
A2. Governments must shift from being gatekeepers of change to enablers of context-driven innovation. Provide flexible policy frameworks, protect professional agency, and stop measuring transformation with yesterday’s metrics. #EduSkyAU
May 27, 2025 at 9:52 AM
And you've probably all heard me say this before, but we need to shift focus from ‘what works’ to ‘what might work here’: Innovation needs to be context-sensitive. The best ideas often emerge from within schools and systems that are trusted to take risks and experiment and reflect #EduSkyAU
Alrighty... this second one very close to my heart: Q2. How can governments better promote innovation in education, without imposing it from above?
May 27, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Alrighty... this second one very close to my heart: Q2. How can governments better promote innovation in education, without imposing it from above?
I think this first question is really about future casting and backwards design. I find a lot of the work I do with school leaders when we apply these methods, it positions them to think differently about the future and their role in shaping it #EduSkyAU
A1. Schools that foster adaptive capacity in students, teachers and leaders. This might mean deliberately working together to re-imagine beliefs, roles, identities as well as practices and structures. #EduSkyAU
May 27, 2025 at 9:47 AM
I think this first question is really about future casting and backwards design. I find a lot of the work I do with school leaders when we apply these methods, it positions them to think differently about the future and their role in shaping it #EduSkyAU
Yeah, and for me this is about being both "human-centred and purpose-driven". Start with the student needs, not the system needs. #EduSkyAU
For me, we must first ask the question, what is the purpose of the school of the future? For me, there must be an emphasis on intra & entrepreneurial skills. Schools must lean into student strengths. Schools must be personalised. Learning should be hands-on, connected and authentic. #EduSkyAU
Hey folks! I'm looking forward to this chat. Let's get the ball rolling... Q1 today is: "If we start from today’s emerging realities, what kind of future schools must we design?" #EduSkyAU
May 27, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Yeah, and for me this is about being both "human-centred and purpose-driven". Start with the student needs, not the system needs. #EduSkyAU
This is something I think about a lot. For example, I've been thinking a bit about how we must consider what kind of future we are designing for. How do we take a wellbeing and ethical lens to that? #EduSkyAU
A1. We must design schools that are responsive to complexity—not reactive to trends. Places where belonging precedes achievement, and curiosity is cultivated over compliance. Schools that prepare students to shape the world, not just survive it. #EduSkyAU
May 27, 2025 at 9:41 AM
This is something I think about a lot. For example, I've been thinking a bit about how we must consider what kind of future we are designing for. How do we take a wellbeing and ethical lens to that? #EduSkyAU
Hey folks! I'm looking forward to this chat. Let's get the ball rolling... Q1 today is: "If we start from today’s emerging realities, what kind of future schools must we design?" #EduSkyAU
May 27, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Hey folks! I'm looking forward to this chat. Let's get the ball rolling... Q1 today is: "If we start from today’s emerging realities, what kind of future schools must we design?" #EduSkyAU
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Welcome to #EduSkyAU chat.
Our guest host tonight is @glennsavage.bsky.social, encouraging us to talk about designing future schools.
TIPS
1) Click on the #EduSkyAU hashtag & select Latest
2) Use the hashtag in all posts & replies
3) Respond to Q1 by using A1 in your response
Our guest host tonight is @glennsavage.bsky.social, encouraging us to talk about designing future schools.
TIPS
1) Click on the #EduSkyAU hashtag & select Latest
2) Use the hashtag in all posts & replies
3) Respond to Q1 by using A1 in your response
May 27, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Welcome to #EduSkyAU chat.
Our guest host tonight is @glennsavage.bsky.social, encouraging us to talk about designing future schools.
TIPS
1) Click on the #EduSkyAU hashtag & select Latest
2) Use the hashtag in all posts & replies
3) Respond to Q1 by using A1 in your response
Our guest host tonight is @glennsavage.bsky.social, encouraging us to talk about designing future schools.
TIPS
1) Click on the #EduSkyAU hashtag & select Latest
2) Use the hashtag in all posts & replies
3) Respond to Q1 by using A1 in your response
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Not long now until tonight's @eduskyauteam.bsky.social #EduSkyAU chat with the amazing @glennsavage.bsky.social.
Join from 5:30pm AWST | 7:30pm AEST
Join from 5:30pm AWST | 7:30pm AEST
May 27, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Not long now until tonight's @eduskyauteam.bsky.social #EduSkyAU chat with the amazing @glennsavage.bsky.social.
Join from 5:30pm AWST | 7:30pm AEST
Join from 5:30pm AWST | 7:30pm AEST
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Looking forward to this #EduSkyAU chat with @glennsavage.bsky.social 😃
May 25, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Looking forward to this #EduSkyAU chat with @glennsavage.bsky.social 😃
Honoured to have a piece in The Saturday Paper with @pasisahlberg.bsky.social
We offer three steps:
1. Prioritise faster funding for disadvantaged schools
2. Nourish collaboration over compliance
3. Tackle the root causes of disengagement and burnout
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/educati...
We offer three steps:
1. Prioritise faster funding for disadvantaged schools
2. Nourish collaboration over compliance
3. Tackle the root causes of disengagement and burnout
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/educati...
The next three steps to help public schools
Australia has the resources, the talent and now a government with enough political capital to build better and fairer education systems, if we’re brave enough to act. With its landslide victory, the s...
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au
May 23, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Honoured to have a piece in The Saturday Paper with @pasisahlberg.bsky.social
We offer three steps:
1. Prioritise faster funding for disadvantaged schools
2. Nourish collaboration over compliance
3. Tackle the root causes of disengagement and burnout
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/educati...
We offer three steps:
1. Prioritise faster funding for disadvantaged schools
2. Nourish collaboration over compliance
3. Tackle the root causes of disengagement and burnout
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/educati...
Reposted by Glenn Savage
Join Professor @glennsavage.bsky.social (UniMelb) for #EduSkyAU on Tue 27 May:
Designing Future Schools
From co-design to evidence, leadership & bold policy—what must we create for what comes next?
5:30pm AWST / 7:30pm AEST
Designing Future Schools
From co-design to evidence, leadership & bold policy—what must we create for what comes next?
5:30pm AWST / 7:30pm AEST
May 21, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Join Professor @glennsavage.bsky.social (UniMelb) for #EduSkyAU on Tue 27 May:
Designing Future Schools
From co-design to evidence, leadership & bold policy—what must we create for what comes next?
5:30pm AWST / 7:30pm AEST
Designing Future Schools
From co-design to evidence, leadership & bold policy—what must we create for what comes next?
5:30pm AWST / 7:30pm AEST
Reposted by Glenn Savage
On the last day of ICSEI 2025 in Melbourne we sat down with Will Brehm to reflect what we learned and heard. This is part of amazing FreshEd podcast. Listen this episodes and if you were in ICSEI 2025 attendees, add your takeaways. @glennsavage.bsky.social freshedpodcast.com/sahlberg-sav...
Pasi Sahlberg & Glenn Savage • FreshEd
Pasi Sahlberg and Glenn Savage speak about redefining education, focused on purpose and possibility.
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February 24, 2025 at 11:19 PM
On the last day of ICSEI 2025 in Melbourne we sat down with Will Brehm to reflect what we learned and heard. This is part of amazing FreshEd podcast. Listen this episodes and if you were in ICSEI 2025 attendees, add your takeaways. @glennsavage.bsky.social freshedpodcast.com/sahlberg-sav...
Colleagues and I have just published a new paper on the complexities of parental engagement in schools, based on a survey of 883 Australian parents across all sectors.
We reveal a significant disconnect between policies and the realities of parenting.
url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/bNv8Cvl0E5...
We reveal a significant disconnect between policies and the realities of parenting.
url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/bNv8Cvl0E5...
The engaged parent: schooling and motherhood in the contemporary economy
This paper explores parental experiences of school engagement, set against the backdrop of policy aspirations for parental involvement in schools. We suggest that the policy desire for parent engag...
url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com
January 21, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Colleagues and I have just published a new paper on the complexities of parental engagement in schools, based on a survey of 883 Australian parents across all sectors.
We reveal a significant disconnect between policies and the realities of parenting.
url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/bNv8Cvl0E5...
We reveal a significant disconnect between policies and the realities of parenting.
url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/bNv8Cvl0E5...
The ICSEI 2025 Conference has a stunning lineup of pre-conference masterclasses. I’m humbled to be on the program alongside legends like @ahargreaves.bsky.social, @pasisahlberg.bsky.social, and many more. My masterclass is on “Leading Change Through Strategic Design”.
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Master Class – Glenn C. Savage – ICSEI 2025
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December 10, 2024 at 5:49 AM
The ICSEI 2025 Conference has a stunning lineup of pre-conference masterclasses. I’m humbled to be on the program alongside legends like @ahargreaves.bsky.social, @pasisahlberg.bsky.social, and many more. My masterclass is on “Leading Change Through Strategic Design”.
2025.icsei.net/master-class...
2025.icsei.net/master-class...