3 Day Introductory Workshop
for School Leaders
Leading School Transformation
A Three Day, Deep Learning Experience
for Principals, School Leaders and Early Childhood Leaders
Adelaide, South Australia
Days 1 & 2: Thursday May 15th and Friday May 16th, 2025
Day 3 - Immersive School Experience (Date TBC)
Hosted by AISSA
Sydney, NSW
Days 1 & 2: Thursday March 14th and Friday March 15th, 2024
Day 3 - Immersive School Experience (Date TBC)
What is the workshop?
Leading School Transformation is a 3-day introductory and practical workshop course about empowering and transforming schools through the development of agency in learning and leading, enabled by 4C capabilities: Creativity, Critical Reflection, Communication and Collaboration.
The 4Cs approach is responsive to the challenges and opportunities of the 21st century and dedicated to applying the most relevant research to support schools as they meet the emerging needs of students, staff and their communities.
Workshop content will be inspired by the research of our organisation’s founders, Professor Michael Anderson (University of Sydney) and Dr Miranda Jefferson (CEO, 4CTL).
How do the workshops work?
These workshops will provide leaders in schools with tangible and actionable goals and strategies to begin or continue change in their schools. The practical strategies introduced to leaders and teachers will be responsive to their school’s context, needs and aspirations.
Who is 4CTL?
The professional learning is led by 4CTL (4C Transformative Learning), an organisation that works in long-term professional learning partnerships with a network of schools across Australia and internationally.
Workshops will be lead by Jamie Gerlach and Daniel Bell, expert and highly experienced 4CTL practitioners leading the workshops, along with Professor Michael Anderson and Dr Miranda Jefferson.
The research and practice that underpins the work of 4CTL is detailed in Michael and Miranda’s books, Transforming Education: Reimagining Learning, Pedagogy and Curriculum (2021) and Transforming Schools: Creativity, Critical Reflection, Communication, Collaboration (2017).
Who is this workshop for?
Principals, executive leadership and leading teachers interested in being introduced to practical, research based, deep professional learning that builds leadership, learning capacity and agency in schools.
If you are interested in learning about the 4Cs but you’re not a school leader, you might be interested in our Introduction to 4Cs Leadership & Learning Online Course.
What will we cover in the workshop?
Day 1: Leading School Transformation: a capability approach
· Is school transformation possible?
· What is a capability approach to school transformation?
· How does communication create agency for transformation? Exploring and applying the Communication Crystal coherence maker to your context.
Day 2: Transformation: Action and agency
· What is 4C transformation? Stories from leaders of 4CTL partnership schools.
· What are the dispositions for leader and learner agency?
· What is your priority focus and how do you start? Mini action inquiry: Driving question
Day 3: Immersive School Experience in a 4CTL partnership school (conducted in term 4, location TBC)
· What can 4C learning look like in action? Collaborative classroom visits
· Collaborative reflections and learning from school mini action inquiries
ADELAIDE WORKSHOP DETAILS
SYDNEY WORKSHOP DETAILS
WORKSHOP DAYS 1 & 2: May 15th & 16th, 2025
TIME: 9am - 3pm each day
LOCATION: AISSA, 128 Greenhill Road Unley SA 5061
INCLUDED: Coffee & tea on arrival, morning tea, afternoon tea and lunch.
WORKSHOP DAY 3: To be confirmed at a school in the Adelaide area.
COST FOR 3 DAYS: $1800+GST for up to 6 team members.
$100+GST pp for each additional team member.
WORKSHOP DAYS 1 & 2: TBC
TIME: 9am - 3pm each day
LOCATION: TBC
INCLUDED: Coffee & tea on arrival, morning tea, afternoon tea and lunch.
WORKSHOP DAY 3: To be confirmed at a school in the Sydney area.
COST FOR 3 DAYS: $1800+GST for up to 6 team members.
$100+GST pp for each additional team member.
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