9 May – What it means to work systemically and why it matters
Nugget of Learning: Implementing and Sustaining: We hear from Milford 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 from Term One. We concentrate on ways to work systemically to…
Read More14 March – Deeper Change Part 3: Nurturing ongoing collaborative leadership inquiry
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…
Read More29 Feb – Deeper Change Part 2: Navigating beneath the surface of habitual practices
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…
Read More15 Feb – Deeper Change Part 1: Revisiting implementation gaps
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…
Read MoreTerm 4, Workshop 2 – Planning pathways of intentional change for 2024
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 possible…
Read MoreTerm 4, Workshop 1 – Weaving together data based evidence that informs intentional change
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. In…
Read MoreTerm 3, Workshop 3 – Making the most of your data to drive improvement
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…
Read MoreTerm 3, Workshop 2 – Making the most of your data to drive improvement
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…
Read MoreTerm 3, Workshop 1 – Making the most of your data to drive improvement
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…
Read MoreTerm 2, Workshop 3 – Developing Agency in your context
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…
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