The New Professionalism and the Future of Teaching team at the OECD thanks the many colleagues who have contributed to the development of this publication at various stages.
The authors of the report are Lydia Vosberg, Jason McGrath and Claire Shewbridge. The OECD team owes a great deal to our colleagues at the Austrian Ministry of Education, who have taken the initiative for this study. The authors of this report would therefore like to thank the Ministry of Education, in particular Bernhard Chabera and Patrizia Jankovic for their collegiality in planning the study.
Thanks to all the participating Austrian teachers, school leaders, policy makers, researchers, academics, and other stakeholders who contributed to the realisation of this study. A special thank you to Michael Schratz, Doris Pfingstner, and Camilla Seilern, who all contributed a textbox in Chapter 4.
Thank you to the reviewers Andrea Hofer and Thomas Radinger for reading earlier versions of this publication and providing constructive feedback. Thomas Radinger also supported the stakeholder workshops. Thank you to Jan Maarse for support developing the personas in Chapter 3, and thank you to Charlotte Kohlloffel for developing the overview graphic for the set of personas. Thank you to Leonora Lynch-Stein who supported the team in preparing the study, including the research seminar and materials for the in-person workshops. The authors would like to thank Edmund Misson, Head of the Innovation and Measuring Progress division, and Andreas Schleicher, Director for the Directorate for Education and Skills, for their careful review of this publication and strategic guidance. The team is grateful to James Bouch for work on travel arrangements and Sabrina Bouldi for work on the layout for the publication.