Resources

In this webinar, Bruce Armstrong delves into the disruption in schools and how we can navigate through this and lead during these times.

Zahra Harvey is a mathematics learning specialist at Lysterfield Primary School, where most recently she has led the implementation of individual learning goals.

In this webinar, Dr. Ron Beghetto delves into the future of education, and supporting students' creativity in the age of artificial intelligence.

Featuring some of the biggest names in education, our Thought Leadership Series delves into the latest research, big ideas and innovations that affect educators and students.

Find and access recordings and presentations from the 2024 Government Schools Principals Conference.

2022 Teaching Excellence Program (TEP) alumni Jay Chew (Al-Taqwa College), Ben Jones (Bendigo South East 7-10 Secondary College) and Kendall Aglinskas (Assumption College) dive deep into their teaching journeys.

ABC Education, in collaboration with Museums Victoria and several palaeontologists, have developed exciting, animated videos and Catalyst episodes on the extinct megafauna of Australia.

In this webinar, Dr Helen Kelly, helps us to learn about the signs, symptoms, causes and prevention strategies for teacher burnout and wellbeing.

A video of a panel discussion delving into the complexities of dysregulated behaviour and exploring effective strategies to manage it.

Leadership Excellence Division 2023 Principal in Residence Greg Lacey is joined by principal Andrew Schneider and paediatrician Vanessa Gabriel to discuss the barriers disadvantaged communities face in accessing quality healthcare.

Anna Miller, Director of Junior School Music at Strathcona Girls Grammar School, shares her experience using the Design Thinking model, and gives some tips for teachers and how to get students engaged.

In this episode Carol Hodgson (Department of Education, regional) and 2022 Teaching Excellence Program (TEP) alumni Melissa Pavey from South Street Primary School in Moe and Cathy Buchanan-Hagen from Hamlyn Banks Primary School in Geelong discuss all things literacy, education and mentor texts.

Webinar with Tasneem Chopra OAM - Consultant, Speaker, Broadcaster on Cultural Safety, Competency, and Inclusion.

A broad range of professional learning and resources to support implementation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in schools.

Join TEP alumni Kimberly Silva (Mount Rowan Secondary College) and Dr Christine Lambrianidis (Suzanne Cory High School) as they tackle myths about gifted students in the classroom.

In this webinar, Mark and Ollie provide insights into common classroom scenarios and provide strategies for best practice teaching.

In this webinar, Kirra Pendergast delves into the implications of cyber security with emerging technologies in the classroom.

In this episode, Academy Principal in Residence Justine Smyth is joined by executive class principals Gail Hardman and Prue Pisani who currently work in Differentiated Support School Improvement (DSSI) in the Northwest Victorian Region.

Written by Teaching Excellence Program (TEP) Master Teacher Anam Javed, this article focusses on design thinking and how teachers can promote strategic and innovative thinking in their students.  

Polya's problem-solving process, developed by mathematician George Polya, provides a structured approach to problem-solving that can be applied across various domains.

An engaging and practical set of mathematics resources for use in schools. Printable and podcast resources were co-designed by the Australian Council for Educational Research and the Academy to improve student outcomes and the approach towards mathematics.

Hosted by Head of Mathematics at Albert Park College and Teaching Excellence Program (TEP) Alumni Rachael Gore, this episode will discuss a model for understanding Maths anxiety and strategies for addressing causes and symptoms. Featuring the Australian Council for Educational Research's (ACER) Senior Research Fellow Dr
Sarah Buckley, this episode and associated strategies complement techniques that are widely used in classrooms.

Valuing maths positively impacts student learning outcomes and determines whether a student will continue to engage with maths at school and beyond. This episode is hosted by Teaching Excellence Program Master Teacher Emma Moore and features Dr Sarah Buckley from the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER).

Valuing maths positively impacts student learning outcomes and determines whether a student will continue to engage with maths at school and beyond. This episode discusses a particular type of maths – utility value – and the research backed way to improve it. Hosted by Teaching Excellence Program Master Teacher Ben Allen with guest Dr Sarah Buckley.

Hosted by 2023 Academy Principal in Residence Greg Lacey, this episode features EC by Go1 CEO Dave Faulkner and learning designer and facilitator Glenn Solomons. In this episode Greg, Dave and Glenn cover all things middle leadership and the impact they can have as “the engine room of change in schools”. 

A broad range of professional learning and resources to support positive student behaviour. 

This blog provides 6 essential behaviour management tips that can serve as a checklist as you begin the school year or teaching a new class.

This blog provides 2 evidence-informed practices to improve teacher-student relationships and discusses referent power.

Master Teacher in Residence for Technologies, Anam Javed, explores artificial intelligence and how educators and schools can work with AI not against it.

Join Principal in Residence Kendra Parker and international thought leader Professor Yong Zhao to better understand and support student engagement.

In this webinar, Dr Peter DeWitt provides an insightful session on empowering leadership and fostering a sense of efficacy among educators.

This episode delves into the ever-evolving technology and computational environments used to support both student and educator learning. With a focus on practical and engaging project-based numeracy development, this a must-listen episode for classroom teachers with the desire to improve student outcomes in mathematics.

Check out the graphic illustrations that capture the inspiring messages from our Government Schools Principals’ Conference 2023.

Part of the Thought Leadership Series, James Nottingham discusses the distinction between authentic engagement and compliance, reveals how to interpret students' subtle cues, and provides practical tools to help make students' learning purposeful.

The Academy Leadership Excellence Framework (ALEF) sets out the practices, capabilities and dispositions required for excellence at all levels of leadership.​ 

This episode discusses the mathematical limitations and possibilities of AI in the classroom and the presence of programs such as ChatGPT. Also up for discussion is ‘symbolic programming’, data analysis and how teachers can use technology to reengage students and bring back their wonder, amazement and curiosity for mathematics.   

In this webinar, Dr Helen Street provides an opportunity to broaden understanding of student behaviour by considering context and how it relates to student motivation and actions.

Join Professor Yong Zhao to better understand and support student engagement. Consider how students can be involved in decision-making in your school and how to best engage them for impact.

Learn specific skills to influence school change with Professor Andy Hargreaves, world-renowned speaker, author and researcher focused on school improvement. 

Aimed at middle leaders, this webinar recording will enhance your ability to influence school wide change and help children become engaged in problem solving.

Throughout history, there have been many inventions that were embraced by some, while others were met with more scepticism. In our ever-evolving world, it is important for teachers to understand the implications of new technologies to enhance the learning experience for their students. Teaching Excellence Program Master Teacher Ange Tutty delves into imagination and the role of technology in education.

Leading school improvement is a challenging and rewarding role for educational leaders. It means disrupting aspects of business as usual, and learning more effective ways of working with students and colleagues to achieve positive results.

What does it mean to advance the quality and status of the teaching profession?

In this vodcast, Professor Eric Mazur, Dr Claire Brown, and Gail Bray discuss what it will take and why now more than ever it is so critical to raise the profile of teachers.

Student voice is having a long overdue renaissance in education. As teachers, we have a growing expectation that we embed opportunities for students to speak about and have a genuine impact upon the teaching and learning occurring in our classrooms.

The impact of leadership on student and school improvement cannot be underestimated.

Tracey focuses on the importance of self-understanding in leading others, and useful ways to recalibrate and build an approach of Ferocious Warmth leadership.

Changes over the past decade have allowed our world to be more ‘iConnected’ than ever before.

Aasha Murthy defines the key dimensions of the ‘iConnected’ world and how you can identify the emerging patterns in your sector by analysing its driving forces and critical uncertainties.

Joanne Quinn explores ways of learning that are bringing joy back to schools and engaging students in learning cultures that build empathy, engagement and wellbeing.

Joanne Quinn explores ways of learning that are bringing joy back to schools and engaging students in learning cultures that build empathy, engagement and wellbeing.

As the inaugural Master Teacher for the Arts, Teaching Excellence Program, Toby Wilkins has a depth of knowledge and insight into what it takes to successfully apply for a competitive process.

In this blog, Toby shares with you his top tips for completing a high-quality and impactful application that will resonate with others and help you put your best foot forward.

Inaugural Master Teacher for the Humanities, Teaching Excellence Program, Adam Brodie-Mackenzie reflects on the benefits of discipline-focused professional learning opportunities through the Teaching Excellence Program.

In this blog, Adam provides his expert guidance to support you in considering which discipline to apply for and how to link it to your passion in teaching.

Successful education systems have principals who are well connected to their peers through active partnerships or learning networks of schools. In Victoria, these learning networks are known as Communities of Practice.

This publication outlines how to embed a networked system of schools to powerfully lift the performance and achievement of all students.

The Communities of Practice approach builds the collective efficacy of principals to strengthen teaching practice and improve student outcomes.

Develop the right skills, expertise and dispositions to support the communities of practice approach as a network executive or network chair.

This worksheet allows you to reflect on your areas of competency and identify opportunities for improvement.

There is a range of evidence that sits behind the Communities of Practice approach.

Explore the research underpinning this work with this fact sheet.

The ability for networks to reflect and grow their Communities of Practice approach is critical to success.

This publication outlines the different elements of the self-assessment and how they are used to achieve progression.

The Communities of Practice approach supports the ambitious and powerful vison for Victoria’s education system outlined in the Education State.

This publication outlines a set of guidelines to assist with network governance and supports network chairs and executives to fulfil their roles confidently and effectively in a CoP.

As a system, we need to grow a strong, sustainable pipeline of great leaders.

Explore how the Talent Management Framework can be adapted and used in a range of school and network contexts.

Forming new habits is the start of enhancing your wellbeing. 

This recording focuses on the physical and environmental strategies you can use to structure your day around wellbeing. 

What does it mean to have good wellbeing? 

The recording explores the science of wellbeing and the variable that contribute to individual wellbeing and the wellbeing of students. 

How often are you checking in on and taking meaningful action to support your psychological wellbeing?

This recording is an opportunity to reflect and revisit strategies that best support psychological wellbeing, and stretch yourself to take action to enhance it and positively impact those around you.

Part of our Numeracy Webinar Series, this recording deepens understanding of the 4 proficiencies for mathematics learning: fluency, reasoning, problem-solving and understanding.

Steve Munby believes that the more we seek to become the perfect leader, the more likely we are to disempower those around us.

In this recording, Steve explores key principles to navigate leadership expectations and learn how imperfect leadership can help you balance leading with power and love.

Pasi Sahlberg's 'mission possible' is fixing inequality in Australia's education system.

In this recording, Pasi illustrates how placing equity at the centre of education reform can result in the conditions that make achievement for all students more likely.

Dr Ryan Dunn believes that by using adaptive approaches as a response to uncertainty we build school resilience in the face of continual change.

In this recording, Ryan explores how to cultivate cohesive, empowered teams ready for change and innovation.

Maintaining confidence and calm while navigating challenges and seizing opportunities during complex times can be difficult.

This recording provides practical tools and techniques to help you enhance your capacity to demonstrate empathy and positively influence the way people are thinking and feeling.

How do we deepen those attributes that are most effective and leave the others behind to progress and strengthen your leadership?

In this recording, explore an appreciative inquiry process to help you reflect on how you lead others and identify how you can move forward in your career.

Part of our Numeracy Webinar Series, this recording provides practical steps to develop a growth mindset style of teaching and resources for effective numeracy teaching, including the Birth to Level 10 Numeracy Guide.

This webinar investigates the Communities of Practice approach and the value it can add within your own and across other schools.

Explore how a small school adapted the Talent Management Framework to ensure unexpected talent was identified and developed.

Student disengagement and dropout from school are major challenges for education jurisdictions
internationally.

This report explores a range of frameworks and tools that support school leaders and teachers to act on insights developed about students at risk of disengagement and take a preventative approach to disengagement.

Student disengagement and dropout from school are major challenges for education jurisdictions
internationally.

This article explores the factors that contribute to disengagement, the predictive strength of these factors, and best-practice examples of interventions to prevent disengagement.

Student disengagement and dropout from school are major challenges for education jurisdictions
internationally.

This report summarises the findings of a review of recent international research on the early identification of, and early intervention with, students at risk of disengagement.

Student disengagement and dropout from school are major challenges for education jurisdictions
internationally.

This report presents case studies of how school leaders and teachers from a sample of 10 Victorian schools use data to identify students at risk of disengagement.

Explore how the Talent Management Framework was used alongside a distributed leadership approach to identify talent.

Explore the benefits and uses of formative assessment and feedback to facilitate reading growth and drive future planning.

This webinar examines how you can identify the next point of learning for your students, with a focus on identifying what you know and what you need to find out. Understand how to establish achievable learning goals and how to monitor progress.

Emotions influence the quality of the decisions we make, behaviours that we demonstrate and our productivity.

This recording explores practical tools and techniques for leading a remote team and positively influencing their wellbeing and productivity in a crisis environment.

How do school leaders capture the hearts and minds to establish community during challenging times?

This webinar explores the models, tools and techniques to bring about constructive change and engage school communities.

How can being emotionally intelligent support you to overcome the challenges of working remotely? 

This recording explores practical tools and techniques for being productive while working from home.

This webinar examines how you can identify the next point of learning for your students, with a focus on identifying what you know and what you need to find out.

Part of our Numeracy Webinar Series, this recording provides an in-depth look at the assessment tools, opportunities to reflect on your mathematics assessment practices and elements of effective formative assessment.

How can we change our education systems to give young people the skills they need to become global citizens? 

In this podcast, Joanne Quinn talks about the key drivers for transforming learning to prepare students for the future.

How do school leaders get the most out of technology for their teachers and students?

In this podcast, Baroness Susan Greenfield describes her journey to becoming neuroscientist and explains how the brain evolves with every experience.

Rigour involves raising expectations and teaching and learning to the highest level.

In this podcast, Dr Barbara Blackburn explores the building blocks of motivation and how teachers can implement them in their classroom to create a rigorous learning environment.

How can school leaders empower parents, students and staff to create sustained positive change?

In this podcast, Richard Gerver talks about creating the conditions for excellence and enthusiasm within school communities, and the sense of purpose and belonging he felt as a teacher that's never left him.

Change is complex, because people are complex. How can educational leaders adapt and respond through the change journey to achieve their intended impact?

In this podcast, Simon talks about how his desire to use research and scientific knowledge to make an impact lead to his work in education.

What does effective system leadership look like for schools in an increasingly collaborative world?

In this podcast, Viviane talks about her strong interest in researching problems of practice that help teachers improve student outcomes.

It’s not paint-by-numbers, and there’s no rule book – so how do we lead ourselves and others to make the biggest difference in our schools?

In this podcast, Steve talks about how he got into educational leadership – from the challenges to the importance of modelling leadership, mentoring and understanding that change takes time.

How do we harness the power of data to increase equity in education? Kathy Parker Boudett talks about Data Wise, and helping people to work together to seek the truth through evidence.

In this podcast, Kathy explores the role data plays in learning and teaching, particularly the opportunity to ask important questions about our practice.

We live in a time of unprecedented change. Valerie Hannon believes our education systems are lagging behind.

In this podcast, Valerie shares what it is about education that drives and inspires her – from her early schooling, doing her masters with David Hargreaves and, most importantly, working with students in different capacities to help change their lives.

Global educational influencer Tony Mackay talks about the importance of collaboration in driving the ‘good work’ of change. How do we connect with others to do that work collectively?

In this podcast, Tony shares some of the high and lowlights of his leadership journey – from classroom to system – all over the world.

Leading with principles is important, but principles alone are not enough to make an effective leader. School leaders also need an ability to lead and manage effectively, writes education thought leader Steve Munby.

The benefits of supporting students to work within their Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD) are well known, but so are the challenges. The Sunshine College Maths Program provides teachers with a practical model for effective differentiation, write educators Yvonne Reilly and Jodie Parsons.

Computational Thinking is a process that applies a 4-step problem-solving cycle to real-world challenges, and it should feature in every subject, writes mathematician and entrepreneur Conrad Wolfram.

In the new work order, it is predicted young people will have 17 jobs over 5 careers. Instead of focusing on a ‘dream job’, we should advise students to consider skills and capabilities that translate across a range of jobs, writes social entrepreneur Jan Owen.

What should students learn in the 21st century? Specific content does not matter. It is what students do with the content, how they respond to it, shape it and apply it, that matters, write educators Rob Riordan and Larry Rosenstock.

In order for children to thrive in school and achieve their full potential later in life, schools must promote social and emotional learning (SEL), write Kimberly Schonert-Reichl and Pippa Rowcliffe from the Human Early Learning Partnership.

Historically, confusion and error have been feared and avoided in learning spaces. Yet, research shows these experiences can enhance learning and may even be integral to the learning process, writes neuroscientist and educator, Dr Jared Cooney Horvath.

Common approaches to learning assessment can send adverse messages and confuse students’ understanding of the relationship between effort and success. Reform is needed but it requires a shift towards a growth mindset, writes Professor Geoff Masters.

System leaders are principals who take on responsibility to improve other schools as well as their own. And system leadership practice could be a key driver for system reform, writes Professor David Hopkins.

Education systems need a radical redesign in order to offer learning relevant to our current conditions, writes global thought leader Valerie Hannon.

School leaders need to be catalysts for change. To do this, they must also become digital leaders, writes thought leader, educator and author, Eric Sheninger.

School leaders need to be catalysts for change. To do this, they must also become digital leaders, writes thought leader, educator and author, Eric Sheninger.

Mary Jean Gallagher advocates for a broader vision of education that acknowledges that education isn’t just about academic achievement.  

This recording explores how school leaders can stay focused on the thing that really matter to their school community during times of change.

Find out how the Academy supports the work and contribution that system leaders make to the Victorian education system.

Victorian schools take a Communities of Practice (CoP) approach so networks and system leaders can share knowledge, experience and resources to improve leadership practice and student outcomes.

The Academy Leadership Excellence Framework (ALEF) sets out the practices, capabilities and dispositions required for excellence at all levels of leadership.​ 

Thinking strategies are one way to enhance your wellbeing.

In this recording, you will deep-dive into 3 thinking strategies - creating boundaries, using perspective and generating new ideas - that support and enhance wellbeing.