Building leadership effectiveness in 2022

The NSWPPA leadership programs have been highly successful in enhancing the capacity of school leaders across our schools. We continue to offer a mix of face to face and online programs for Term 2.

Please support your NSWPPA professional learning opportunities.

Founded on the Australian Professional Standard for Principals and focused on learning excellence for students, teachers and school leaders.

NSWPPA Principal Credential Program 2022-2023

Audience: Principals, experienced APs and DPs, school leadership teams
Duration: 3 x 2-day seminars plus facilitated collegial learning over 18 months
Accreditation: Pathway to 50% Masters of Education (Educational Leadership), University of Wollongong

Expressions of interest are currently being taken for this key leadership development program. In its ninth year this program has contributed significantly to building key leadership competencies for Principals and experienced executive.

The Principal Credential provides a substantial pathway of learning for school leadership. This program enables leaders to focus their influence and their learning on the core business of teaching and learning to have the greatest influence on student learning outcomes. Within the program, formal learning is provided through a series of seminars that enable access to international best practice, educational research and thinking. The key learning within the program is led by Ann McIntyre. The program also includes facilitated collegial learning and focused individual learning with an experienced principal coach. Successful participants will receive a pathway for 50% of a Masters of Educational Leadership at Wollongong University.

Information and an expression of interest for the next program for 2022 is available through the information flyer.

7 Habits of Highly Effective People

Audience: Principals, school executive, school leadership teams
Delivered online and face to face.

No matter how competent a person is, he or she will not have sustained and lasting success unless they are able to effectively lead themselves, influence, engage and collaborate with others, and continually improve and renew their capabilities. These elements are at the heart of personal, team, and organisational effectiveness. The 7 Habits will enable you to intentionally align values, behaviours, norms and systems toward a central strategy where culture becomes a force to drive results. You will learn how to grasp the 7 Habits as a powerful tool for creating a great culture and model and reinforce the 7 Habits to create an operating system for effectiveness in your teams and school.

Leading at the Speed of Trust

Audience: Principals, school executive, school leadership teams
Delivered online and face to face.

When trust is low, suspicion is high, and communication is guarded. With high trust, communication, creativity, and engagement improve. Trust is one of the most important aspects in today’s school environment and like any other discipline, creating trust is a learnable skill. With increased trust our attention is redirected towards improving student learning outcomes. Leading at the Speed of Trust will provide the mindset, skillset, and toolset that will measurably increase a participant’s ability to deliver results in a way that inspires trust.

The Middle Leadership Imperative

Audience: Assistant Principals
Duration: 4 days - 2 x 2-day seminars delivered over 2 terms

The role of the middle leader has become increasingly important to the work of schools through increased accountability and responsibility of principals (Dinham 2016). This course will empower middle leaders through a practical understanding of the environmental and personal inputs into middle leadership, the key roles middle leaders play and the potential impact in relation to teachers and students. The program addresses three key themes:
Middle Leading - Leadership structure, role of the middle leader; interdependent skills of leading and managing; leadership qualities and character strengths
Collaborative professionalism - leading a team, communicating effectively, managing difficult conversations, importance of relationships and building trust, and feedback

Ideas in action – Narrowing the focus on improved student learning outcomes, how to lead for improved practice.

Please contact Margaret Charlton if you wish to run this program locally.

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For more information please contact:

Margaret Charlton
Professional Learning Officer
Mob: 0408 905 051
mcharlton@nswppa.org.au