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…

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…

  Nugget of Learning: A school from our network shares a key insight into a collaborative leadership practice they find impactful Each third session in the term as a school team you focus on implementing critical reflection of where you are at now in relation to when you started term one and your priority next…

  Nugget of Learning: Maggie shares a key insight into a collaborative leadership practice she finds impactful. Each second session in the term as a school team you engage in collaborative critical reflection on implementation of the priorities discussed in session one. Building on our understanding of what it means to be agentic and what…

  Nugget of Learning: Kara Luke from Sancta Maria Catholic Primary School shares a key insight into a collaborative leadership practice she finds impactful. Making Impact: Scaffolding connections and flow through and between the year’s workshops. When we feel agentic we have a strong sense of efficacy and agency that we can make a difference. Agency…

  Nugget of Learning: John Marwick from Forrest Hill School shares a key insight into a collaborative leadership practice he finds impactful. Each second session in the term as a school team you engage in collaborative critical reflection on implementation of the priorities discussed in session one. In this research based practical session we explored the…

  Nugget of Learning: Maggie shares a key insight from a 2021 session with Cathy Wylie. Each second session in the term as a school team you engage in collaborative critical reflection on implementation of the priorities discussed in session one. During this second session we encouraged you to focus on the implications of middle leadership…

  Making Impact: Scaffolding connections and flow through and between the year’s workshops. Each first session of the term you focus on input from your team(s) so that your school develops thinking/ planning/ how you intend to implement your plans and discussions from this first session The main focus of this session is to help…

  This workshop followed on from the enCOMPASS activities you started to work on during the last workshop of term three. You were asked to please bring your A3 worksheets from that workshop with you for this one. The time in school groups was an opportunity to practise the learning points from Mark’s workshop earlier…

An essential element of wayfinding leadership is the development of a team culture that values and promotes positive professional conversations: robust debate about professional issues that matter. This session unpacked two frameworks that are useful for creating the conditions for positive professional conversations as well as acting as processes staff can use to engage in…