Ed Roper

Brisbane Grammar School

A systematic and comprehensive focus on teaching quality – informed by the latest educational research – is behind some of the state’s top student academic performances.   

Brisbane Grammar School (BGS) Deputy Headmaster – Staff, Ed Roper, has led the development of teachers’ learning at BGS over the past ten years. BGS’s students consistently achieve among the highest academic results in the state.
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Headmaster Anthony Micallef says Ed has spent the past decade examining pedagogical practices at BGS, and developing standards “aimed at improving student outcomes”. 

​“Ed Roper has committed an enormous amount of time to improving the practice of teachers at Brisbane Grammar School,” Anthony says.

Ed has introduced a suite of initiatives to improve teaching practices, including facilitating a team which crafted site-specific elaborations of the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers to guide self-reflection and evidence-based peer feedback.

He established tools, including the Student Perception Survey and Teacher’s Self-reflection Tool, for teachers to use as evidence of their practice.

An evidence-based process to recognise and reward high performing teachers has been introduced under Ed’s leadership.

Teachers and middle leaders have been encouraged and supported to pursue post-graduate study to develop their pedagogical practice and leadership abilities.

A Teaching and Leadership Development Committee has also been set up to ensure the school’s strategic vision for teaching development is fulfilled.

Congratulations Ed on your nomination.