Thursday 28 August 2025
Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre

Overview:

This exciting new conference stream is designed to support aspiring teacher leaders and those currently in leadership positions.  It provides a day-long sequence of workshops which identify and unpack research-informed practices and approaches to school improvement and what this implies about effective leadership.

Outcomes:

Participants will:

  • Gain exposure to current research and practice in relation to school improvement

  • Explore the implications of research in their own context

  • Make connections with other teacher leaders

Program description:

The day-long program will involve exploration of current school leadership challenges:

  • Making our improvement priorities clear in a complex environment

  • Building individual and collective efficacy in effective teaching and learning

  • Implementing strategies

  • Evaluating implementation

Tickets

Tickets include arrival tea/coffee, morning tea, buffet lunch and a Certificate of Attendance (mapped to APST).

The highly interactive program will draw upon a wide range of stimulus materials: (research findings, improvement tools, capability frameworks and the practices of highly effective school leaders. Each session will build upon the previous, using practical and translatable facilitation approaches. 

Participants will identify and then ‘track’ a school-based challenge from their own setting, reflecting deeply upon current practices and approaches, applying their new knowledge and skills to that challenge as the day progresses. This approach allows participants to not only grow their knowledge and understanding of leadership for school improvement, but also to generate a toolkit for use in their own school-based teams.

Presenters

The team from ACER will facilitate and present sessions across the day. A detailed timetable will be confirmed shortly.