High performing PISA schools:

• Are in societies that place a high value on education
• Realise all children are capable of success. Not segregated early on; this leads to strong social disparities. There is a parental expectation that every students will achieve. Students in USA = "If I’m talented in it. I’ll succeed." Japan = "If I work hard at it."
• Embrace diversity with differentiated pedagogical practice. Ordinary students have extraordinary talents and teachers personalise learning opportunities.
• Clear and ambitious standards across the system. Every student knows what matters, is required to be successful
• Very careful in recruiting, selecting and training. They watch how they work with teachers who are struggling.
• Careful about the structure teacher pay. Teachers work together to frame good practice. Intelligent pathways for teacher to grow.
• Clear, ambitious standards but also every student knows what is required of them to meet those standards.
• Moving from delivered wisdom > user-generated wisdom
• From administrative forms of accountability to professional forms of work organisation. Enable teachers to make innovations in pedagogy and provide development they need to develop better pedagogical practice.
• Make teachers and principals inventive.
• Every school succeeds. Success is systemic. Strongest principals and best teachers are attracted to the most difficult schools.
• They also have coherent policy over a period of time.