We’re excited to bring to you our first research and impact network symposium.
Join us to hear the latest in 4C research and have the opportunity to learn about the way the 4Cs are transforming some of our partner schools.
Deep Learning
Great Ideas
Inspiring Researchers
Deep Learning Great Ideas Inspiring Researchers
Our Plenary Session
Miranda and Michael will discuss the research that underpins their new book, Leadership for School Transformation. In this rare presentation, the founders of 4CTL will explain why they’ve written this book, what it explores, the research foundations behind the book’s content, and why transformative leaders are needed now, more than ever.
Dr Miranda Jefferson and Professor Michael Anderson
Our Elective Sessions
Rebekah Palmer
ABR Researcher & Practitioner. Artistic Academic - Sessional, University of Sydney
Finding the frame: how creativity can be a courageous way to imagine and enact new ways of knowing and being.
In this one-hour workshop, Rebekah shares her research on creativity and creative self-efficacy, exploring how established frameworks can be platforms for emergent and new ways of knowing and being.
This session will offer participants the opportunity to ‘create, make and do’ creativity to form and build identity; examine held understandings; and come to new ways of knowing. Participants will find a frame that reifies their understanding and builds courage and wisdom.
Dr Sue Orlovich
Teacher and Researcher, University of Sydney. Teacher, Western Sydney University
Opening the Black Box: Mapping Your School's Professional Learning Ecology
What actually makes 4Cs learning genuinely embed in a school - and what quietly holds it back? This workshop draws on Sue’s doctoral research to help school teams look beyond professional learning inputs and examine the living ecology of their own site.
Using a collaborative mapping activity, participants explore the seven interdependent practices - Sharing, Weaving, Reflecting, Trusting, Sense-making, Inquiring, and Democratising - that enable Communication, Collaboration, Creativity, and Critical Reflection to flourish across classrooms and within school settings. Uncover where these practices are already taking seed and thriving, where the conditions are ripe for growth, and how to tend and nurture them across the unique ecology of your school.
Dr Vasiliki Papaefstathiou
Associate Lecturer, English Literacy Education K-12, Western Sydney University.
Thinking in Verse: Creative Approaches to Teaching Critical Reflection
How can critical reflection be reimagined as an agentic, creative capability in schools - and what does this look like in practice? In this workshop, Vasiliki draws on her PhD research using transformative learning frameworks and arts-based approaches to explore how critical reflection can be conceptualised and taught using poetry.
Participants will engage in a two-part activity featuring the 4Cs coherence maker, the critical reflection crucible, and use poetry to unlock the creative potential of critical reflection.
More speakers announced soon
Why Green Square Public School Community Spaces?
Green Square Public School’s new buildings include a community space, available for hire by members of the public.
We’re excited to showcase this space, and explore it ourselves, as it represents a new and innovative understanding of the role of schools as central to the lives of its students as well as the community around it.
Following the plenary session, attendees will have the opportunity to select two presentations from one of our features researchers.
Our Morning Elective Sessions
Our Afternoon Elective Sessions
After lunch, the 4CTL Team will join presenters from some 4CTL Network Schools to discuss how they’re embedding the 4Cs into their school.
Schedule
Monday May 4th, 2025
8.30 Check-in opens
9.00 Plenary Session
10.45 Morning Tea
11.15 Elective Session
1.00 Lunch
1.45 Featured School Session
3.00 Wrap Up Session
3.30 Close
Venue
Green Square Public School Community Spaces
Ground level, 15 Zetland Avenue (Cnr Joynton Ave), Zetland 2017
Walk 10 minutes from Green Square Station
Buses 304, 320, 343 all pass by the Community Spaces
Cost
$500 per school/educational institution
$300 per person for all other individuals
All prices are exclusive of GST and include morning tea and lunch.
Who is this event for?
Designed for education professionals interested in hearing about research into the 4Cs, the application of the Cs in the classroom and beyond.
And those wanting to hear from schools embedding 4C principles in their settings.
Do I need to have been involved in 4CTL professional learning to attend?
This event is open to anyone interested in the speakers and topics. No prior knowledge or understanding of the work of 4CTL is required.
I’m not a school leader, is this event still relevant for me?
Yes! The Festival of Ideas will appeal to anyone interested in research into the 4Cs, education and the impact of the foundational research of Miranda Jefferson and Michael Anderson.
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