Individuals from small schools can be accommodated in team-based courses. * FISO: Framework for Improving Student Outcomes This calendar is indicative and subject to change as dates are still being negotiated with providers. Further courses will become available. Please check the Bastow website or subscribe to our bulletin for the latest intake dates and new professional learning offerings. www.bastow.vic.edu.au 2019 Bastow Professional Learning Calendar FISO* Priorities Course / Program Audience Aim Terms 1 2 Professional Leadership Inspire: Local Leaders Emerging leaders Develop capabilities as a high potential leader through introductory professional learning in key areas of school leadership. • Impact: Emerging Leaders Emerging leaders Learn to establish processes and structures that support a collaborative culture and create a school-based change project. •• Create: Middle Leaders Middle leaders Develop ability to drive successful team performance and improved classroom practice. •• Unlocking Potential: Principal Preparation Aspiring principals Receive thorough preparation for your first principal appointment. Graduates are conferred with the Certificate of Principal Preparation (Victoria). •• Evolve: New Principals Newly appointed principals Support your transition into the role and build capacity as an effective school leader and manager. •• Leadership for Business Managers Business managers Develop your business management capabilities to improve the efficiency, effectiveness and integrity of the educational support team in your school. • Strategic Management for School Leaders Principal class Business managers Learn to effectively manage risk, utilise data and make well-informed and intentional resourcing decisions to enhance the delivery and impact of school Strategic Plans. •• Excellence in Teaching and Learning Leading Literacy Vertical school teams Learn to create and sustain organisational conditions to enable exemplary literacy practice in your leadership team and influence change. • Leading Literacy for Networks Literacy leaders Lead the development of a shared understanding of quality literacy instruction, whole-school approaches and models of effective literacy practice. • Literacy Master Trainer Literacy experts Build the skills, knowledge and dispositions to facilitate Leading Literacy for Networks. • Literacy Data, Assessment and Practice Literacy leaders Principal class Teachers Develop deep conceptual content and pedagogical knowledge to improve classroom literary practice. • Leading Mathematics Vertical school teams Analyse school-wide mathematics leadership resulting in the design of a needs-based mathematics learning and improvement strategy. • Numeracy Webinar Series Numeracy leaders Principal class Teachers System leaders Webinars focussing on the knowledge, resources and skills educators need to better understand and make connections to the various facets of the numeracy curriculum. •• Leading Excellence in Classroom Practice Learning specialists Collaborate to develop an improvement plan that focuses on high quality learning and teaching. • Professional Conversations (Open-to-Learning™ Leadership) Learning specialists Engage with the Open-to-Learning™ Leadership theory to build a culture of open and effective communication. •• Using Data Wisely System leaders An introduction to the Harvard Data Wise Improvement Process. •• Positive Climate for Learning Open-to-Learning™ Leadership All educational professionals Learn how to have effective conversations in educational settings, deal constructively with conflict and negative feedback, identify and clarify issues, and develop positive action. •• Principal Mentoring Principals Gain support from trusted peers with first hand understanding of the challenges and rewards that come with the role. •• Victorian Aspirant Principal Assessment Middle leaders Aspiring principals Evaluate your readiness for the principal role. • Community Engagement in Learning Continuity of Early Learning Early childhood professionals Staff that support transitions across settings Work with your team to strengthen the partnerships that enable children to achieve successful transition to school. This course has a focus on addressing vulnerability or disadvantage. • Partnering to Improve Learning Vertical school teams Improve outcomes for children and young people by strengthening partnerships between your school and the wider community. •