ELN 2025 Programme dates and venue

In this session school leadership teams continue on-going evidence- based collective inquiry. We focus on explicit leadership in relation to our term focus of ‘The ‘How’ of Sustaining Collective Leadership Inquiry to Make a Difference’. We introduce the critical importance of using listening skills to support enhancing school improvement work.

Please bring your team’s on-going Gap Analysis from Term 1 to this session. We will take time for teams’ conversations as they reflect on the current status of their chosen strategic goal for their collective leadership inquiry. We start to unpack the need for all members of the leadership team to be mindful of the listening skills they bring to the learning conversation. Agreeing and committing as a team to next actions is crucial to this process and recording the details of who is responsible; what is the timeframe; an identified Success Criteria.

In this workshop we develop our focus on listening to enhance our leadership skills; how effective listening ensures the implementation and sustaining of effective strategies for further and on-going improvement in Learning, Teaching and Leading.

What are we learning through listening across our school community? During this workshop we investigate listening skills and how we might further develop this skill as we lead learning and teaching in our schools.

In the last workshop in Term 1 we focused on how to have effective professional conversations that sustain improvement in our professional communities. We considered what our conversations look like to realise optimum gains and wins in building and sustaining collective leadership and professional community.

We follow through from this today to specifically focus on skills to receive feedback well. What does it look like when we show leadership to enable and support effective decision making throughout the school?