- The Crisafulli Government is delivering on its commitment to reduce red tape for teachers by 25 percent over four years.
- New initiatives, including artificial intelligence tools and streamlined software, is saving teachers and school staff hours of work each week.
- New Behaviour Insights Dashboard improves classroom management and student wellbeing.
- A decade of decline under the former Labor Government left teachers burdened with unnecessary red tape that took away from teaching time which left Queensland kids disadvantaged with lagging education standards.
The Crisafulli Government is delivering on its commitment to reduce red tape for Queensland teachers by 25 per cent by 2028, with a suite of new measures freeing teachers to spend more time in the classroom and less time on admin, to unleash kids' full potential and catch-up with national standards which lagged under Labor.
Significant progress has been made implementing the nine key commitments of the Red Tape Reduction Plan 2025-28, which aim to streamline processes and improve efficiencies in Queensland state schools.
A decade of decline under the former Labor Government left Queensland's teachers tied up with red tape, and students left paying the price with lagging education standards.
Some of the most recent initiatives implemented include:
- Streamlining the department's software suite OneSchool to make common tasks quicker and easier, with new simplifiers going live each term.
- Introducing a Behaviour Insights Dashboard, built by schools for schools, to automate data analysis and reporting on school behaviour.
- Providing 20 additional Heads of Department Curriculum roles servicing 124 small schools, enabling teaching principals to focus on curriculum leadership, reducing related teacher workload, and strengthening curriculum expertise.
- Expanding access to the Corella artificial intelligence tool across all state schools, saving teachers 3 to 5 hours per week on lesson planning, administration tasks, research and note-taking.
- Improving MyHR access, with teachers now able to securely log in to MyHR Workplace Health and Safety from outside the department's network.
- Publishing new Travel and Accommodation guidelines and launching the Student Activities Safety Hub, which provides schools with a centralised resource for streamlined planning and management of student activities.
- Launching the Employee Housing System, simplifying the management of 3000 teacher houses and saving schools an estimated 6000 hours of administrative work each year.
The latest initiatives build on earlier actions, including simplifying procurement and recruitment processes, extending timelines for the implementation of Australian Curriculum Version 9, and setting clear expectations for parent communication with teachers.
The Crisafulli Government is building Queensland's future, with a record $23.1 billion Education Budget that is helping kids catch up, keep up and stay in school, through the delivery of 22 new schools – including nine special schools – a bolstered Back to School Boost, and more teachers, teacher aides and support staff.
Minister for Education John-Paul Langbroek said the Crisafulli Government was listening to teachers to undo a decade of Labor's neglect.
"The Crisafulli Government is reducing red tape for teachers with upgraded technology and more efficient systems helping to reduce hours of work," Minister Langbroek said.
"The Behaviour dashboard provides schools with automated information, which removes the tedious manual processes they previously had to endure.
"Early indicators show this dashboard is saving school staff up to an hour each day, while helping to support behaviour management and improve wellbeing.
"Under the former Labor Government, a decade of excessive paperwork and bureaucracy, coupled with a lack of investment in innovative digital systems, led to teachers doing more paperwork than teaching.
"We're delivering the fresh start Queenslanders voted for and we're up for the challenge of fixing Labor's mess."
