Ben Jensen founded his education advisory, Learning First, in 2014. He has advised numerous education systems in Australia and in several countries around the world on education strategy and implementation, and school and system reform that continuously improves teaching and learning. His advice has covered school improvement, teacher and leader development, curriculum reform, and data, evaluation and accountability systems.
Ben’s publications include Preparing to Lead, Beyond PD and Not So Elementary. Both of which have received international attention and changed policy in a number of systems.
Ben has been a member of the Victorian Minister’s Expert Advisory Group, the NSW Education Statistics and Evaluation Advisory Committee, the Independent Schools Queensland Leadership advisory group and the Education Committee of the Myer Foundation. He has served on the Australian Government Teacher Education Ministerial Advisory Group and on OECD expert groups for PISA and the Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS). Before founding Learning First, Ben was Director of the School Education Program at the Grattan Institute, Australia’s leading independent policy think tank, where he wrote the influential report, Catching up: learning from the best school systems in East Asia. He also spent five years at the OECD, where he conducted international research on education policy and school and teacher effectiveness. Ben has a PhD in Economics from the University of Melbourne. Ben is an analyst of the highest degree and I know that you’re going to absolutely LOVE this episode in which Ben shares his expensive knowledge about the crucial importance of quality curriculum.
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Links/resources mentioned in the show
- Learning First (keep an eye on their papers)
- Don Hirsch
- Natalie Wexler
- David Steiner at Johns Hopkins – Go to their institute for education policy website and look at their knowledge mapping work!
- We should go and see and understand curriculums from diff countries. E.g., Alberta Curriculum
- The Checklist Manifesto, Atul Gawande
- Ollie's Books, Cognitive Load Theory in Action and Tools for Teachers
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