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When teachers and school leaders participate in research studies, they experience benefits that extend well beyond their classroom walls. At the Australian Education Research Organisation (AERO), we’ve recently had the privilege of fostering research partnerships focused on understanding how to enhance evidence-based practices in classrooms.

In May 2025, AERO CEO Dr Jenny Donovan gave a keynote on explicit instruction at the Advancing Effective Education Summit in Sydney.

As part of our commitment to strengthening our culturally responsive research and organisational practices, we’re proud to launch our new First Nations at AERO and First Nations Expert Reference Group (ERG) webpages.

On 28 August 2025, AERO hosted a public webinar exploring findings from its recent report into how long it takes to learn English while learning the curriculum.

This explainer outlines how the Australian Education Research Organisation (AERO) is partnering with First Nations people to represent and include First Nations perspectives and contexts in our work.

This paper provides an overview of the Australian Education Research Organisation (AERO)’s cultural responsiveness work to date and outlines the commitments and actions we have taken to strengthen our culturally responsive research and organisational practices.

This charter underpins the Australian Education Research Organisation (AERO)’s ambition to make a positive contribution to the success of First Nations children and young people. It establishes the foundations and mechanisms through which the organisation will pursue reconciliation efforts and confirms AERO’s commitment to First Nations peoples through the work that it performs and the operations enabling that work.

On 19 August 2025, AERO hosted a national webinar exploring effective evidence-based strategies for embedding intentional teaching into everyday ECEC practice.

This research summary provides an overview of how professional learning can influence and support the use of evidence-based practices in schools and early childhood education and care (ECEC) services, to enhance learning outcomes. It outlines early evidence from one of our research projects on coaching.

Matt Jackson, Principal of Somerville Rise Primary School, reflects on how being part of AERO’s Learning Partner Project to support the implementation of explicit instruction has improved outcomes for both students and staff.

AERO has been working closely with Australian schools and systems to learn about promising approaches for implementing evidence-based teaching practices in different school contexts. This discussion paper is the second in a series that shares insights from our work with schools in the Learning Partner project.