How to engage across our identified systems and people   Nugget of Learning: What is our research telling us about ELN and NLN’s professional development? Reflecting on our ten year journey. System-wide improvement demands we focus on the specifics of our daily work while also keeping the big picture in clear focus. In this session…

  Nugget of Learning: Implementing and Sustaining: We hear from Karen Noble-Campbell and Louise Campbell from Our Lady Star of the Sea School in relation to their leadership practices to support the implementing and sustaining of strategies to progress identified school strategic goals for 2024. Our work together in Term Two builds on your focus…

  Nugget of Learning: Implementing and Sustaining: Maggie presented processes to support the implementing and sustaining of strategies to progress identified school strategic goals for 2024. A key practice that enables us address deeper and unproductive habitual practices is engaging in dialogue. During this workshop we offered some tools and guidelines that help shift conversations…

  Nugget of Learning: Maggie presents a leadership practice to support the implementing and sustaining of strategies to progress identified school strategic goals for 2024. Habitual practices stay in play for numerous reasons. Some contribute to learning, development and trust. Some reflect who we are and in the words of Parker Palmer, “we teach who…

  With a focus on starting well with the new school year, planning has taken priority both collectively and individually. Within days once students are back, the familiar patterns kick in, and our focus (rightly) turns to the present situation, the following day, and the rest of the week. Sometimes, our interventions regarding patterns may…

This session supported teachers to embark on their collaborative inquiries for the year. We showcased a range of different approaches to the scanning phase of inquiry, offering practical tools to ensure the areas we choose to focus on are the key areas of need for our learners. We paid particular attention to gathering data and…

In this first session we explored and questioned how structured and intentional our planning and intervention needs to be with different groups within our schools. We identified tensions and opportunities related to engaging teachers through tight and loose coupling in our schools for 2016. Click Here to download the pdf Workshop Videos Please enable JavaScriptplay-sharp-fill…

  During this year we have focused on Leading Collaborative Practice: Building Leadership Capabilities, Clarity of Purpose and Cohesion. In this session each school drew on their discussion and work from the previous session and leveraged this to prioritise and inform pathways of intentional change for 2024. Some focus was given to exploring and understanding…

Where do you go with your reflections from the term 3 workshops and the data gathering sources you currently use and plan to use through 2024. This workshop was an opportunity to weave together data from students, teachers, parents/ caregivers and link this synthesis back to the strategic priorities you identified in Term 1. Click…

There is a growing emphasis on school leaders’ use of data to make informed-decisions about improvement. Both the National Educational Leadership Priorities and the Leadership Strategy identify the use of data as a key driver/capability for improving the quality of teaching and learning. Gathering and sharing data is also important for schools to reflect on…