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Evidence and resources educators can trust

Current highlights

Persistent disengaged and disruptive behaviour: Creating calm, focused classrooms

This practice guide will assist teachers in supporting students to focus on learning when a range of factors impact their engagement and attention and lead to persistent disengagement and disruption across multiple lessons.

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Escalated behaviour: Creating calm, focused classrooms

This practice guide will assist teachers with creating calm learning environments, helping to prevent emotional and behavioural escalation, and supporting students when it does occur.

Latest guides & resources

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Partnering with schools to refine and enhance AERO’s School Writing Instruction Framework: Case study

This case study shares AERO’s learnings from working with schools to trial and develop our School Writing Instruction Framework.

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Escalated behaviour: Creating calm, focused classrooms

This practice guide will assist teachers with creating calm learning environments, helping to prevent emotional and behavioural escalation, and supporting students when it does occur.

Persistent disengaged and disruptive behaviour: Creating calm, focused classrooms

This practice guide will assist teachers in supporting students to focus on learning when a range of factors impact their engagement and attention and lead to persistent disengagement and disruption across multiple lessons.

Latest education research

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Research report

Leveraging evidence for system support

This guidance report provides evidence-based insights for how Australian education systems can most effectively support schools to take up and sustain evidence-based practices at scale.

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Research report

Health and allied health initiatives in schools: Impacts on academic, wellbeing and attendance outcomes

This report presents findings from a literature review AERO conducted to examine the role of school-based health and allied health initiatives and their impact on student outcomes.

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Discussion paper

Insights into implementation in early childhood education and care 2025

AERO has been working alongside ECEC services to increase our understanding of implementation of evidence-based practices in ECEC. This insights paper shares our learnings from the 2023 and 2024 iterations of the ECEC Learning Partner project.

Latest articles

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Behind the evidence: A conversation with Dr Lucy Lu, AERO’s Executive Director, Research Evaluation and Analytics

AERO generates, synthesises and translates evidence to support practice and policy in ECEC and schools. Dr Lucy Lu explains how AERO designs and undertakes research, and the importance of choosing methods and data sources that fit the questions.

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Supporting schools to use evidence: What helps system change succeed

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Understanding educator retention in early childhood education and care

AERO’s analysis of Educator Survey data provides early insights into what influences ECEC educators to remain in the sector.