Building a Living Learning Model: Scaling Science of Learning in Practice
In partnership with Brisbane Catholic Education (BCE), the Learning Lab is exploring how the Science of Learning can be mobilised at scale across an entire education system. The project spans BCE’s network of 146 schools in Southeast Queensland and investigates how research-informed practices can be meaningfully embedded across diverse school contexts.
Led by Dr Stephanie MacMahon, the team is collaborating with BCE educators and leaders to co-design a bespoke BCE Living Learning Model—an evidence-informed framework that reflects BCE’s values, voices, and aspirations for learning. The partnership draws on insights from both research and the BCE community to build educator knowledge, capability, and efficacy in the Science of Learning and its practical application in schools.
The project’s key objectives are to:
Co-develop the BCE Living Learning Model—a practical, evidence-informed framework for teaching and learning contextualised within the BCE system.
Strengthen staff knowledge, capability, and confidence in applying the Science of Learning to decision-making for learning and wellbeing.
Create guiding principles, supporting resources, and illustrations of practice to enable sustainable and scalable knowledge mobilisation.
Contribute to research on knowledge mobilisation at scale, offering new insights into how the Science of Learning can be effectively embedded across systems.
Through this collaborative approach, the project is building a dynamic model of learning in action—where evidence and practice are mobilised together to support meaningful, system-wide impact.
