Inclusive Curriculum Provision – Online Professional Learning
29-01-2024 @ 12:00 am
29/01/2024 - 13/12/2024 @ All Day - Designing and implementing inclusive curriculum requires an understanding of the purpose and principles of inclusive education, knowledge of the design and intent of the Australian Curriculum, an understanding of differentiation and adjustments, and intentional actions that drive equitable learning experiences across grade-level content for each and every learner. Loren Swancutt is an experienced teacher, school [...]
Curriculum and reporting obligations for students in Foundation (including mid-year entry) – Online Information Session
30-07-2024 @ 3:45 pm
30/07/2024 @ 3:45 pm - 5:00 pm - This 75-minute online session will provide important information about a student’s transition into the first year of school (both for four and six terms). The focus will be on school obligations for curriculum and reporting. Audience: Principals, Primary Heads, Early Years Curriculum and Learning Leaders, ELC Directors and teachers Delivery mode: online - a Zoom [...]
New Thinking: New Possibilities STEM Webinar Series – Cultural Diversity in STEM Education
06-08-2024 @ 4:00 pm
06/08/2024 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm - This webinar series will bring together educators from ELC to Year 12, researchers and industry to consider new thinking, new possibilities and explore how STEM education can provide students with new opportunities and pathways for a strong and vibrant future. Webinar 3: Cultural Diversity in STEM Education This webinar will focus on how schools and [...]
Mini COGE – Certificate in Gifted Education
07-08-2024 @ 8:30 am
07/08/2024 - 08/08/2024 @ 8:30 am - 5:30 pm - The Gifted Education Research Resource and Information Centre’s Mini-COGE course provides practical professional development for educators to support high potential and gifted students. High potential students are not necessarily high achievers, and this course will focus on strategies to engage and support these students to reach their potential. The Mini-COGE will help educators to: identify [...]
Association of Independent Schools of SA
2024 NGS Super Leaders’ Dinner
08-08-2024 @ 6:00 pm
08/08/2024 @ 6:00 pm - 9:30 pm - The AISSA invites Principals, their partners, and members of School Boards and leadership teams, and their partners, to the NGS Super Leaders’ Dinner. This is an opportunity to meet and exchange ideas with others in South Australia who are passionate about independent education. Date & time Thursday 8 August 2024 at 6:00pm for 6:30pm Venue [...]
National Wine Centre of Australia
What Does it Mean to be on a School Board?
12-08-2024 @ 7:00 pm
12/08/2024 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm - New to the Board? Join our online session to discover the key principles of effective governance and accelerate your impact as a new board member. David Spear is a Partner and Director of VUCA, a boutique advisory firm which helps organisations deal with critical challenges - particularly volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity. David Spear was [...]
Out of School Hours Care (OSHC) Network Meeting Term 3
13-08-2024 @ 10:00 am
13/08/2024 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm - The OSHC network meetings provide a forum for provocation and discussion that responds to current sector issues. Leaders and educators will come together to engage collaboratively in ways to invigorate and enrich practice in OSHC environments. They will deeply consider the wellbeing, capabilities and curiosities of individual children and young people and ways that dynamic [...]
Association of Independent Schools of SA
National Teacher Certification Program (Semester 2 Intake)
13-08-2024 @ 9:00 am
13/08/2024 @ 9:00 am - 3:00 pm - National Teacher Certification (NTC) is a voluntary, portable, and transparent process that celebrates outstanding educators, enhances professionalism and provides opportunities for career advancement. Certification recognises and promotes the development of collaborative learning professionals who strive to continually reflect upon and improve their practice. The certification process is overseen by the South Australian Teacher Certification Committee [...]
Association of Independent Schools of SA
Using the AC v.9 General Capabilities to enhance student learning
14-08-2024 @ 9:00 am
14/08/2024 @ 9:00 am - 3:30 pm - "The general capabilities reflect the understanding and skills that students need to be confident and creative individuals, lifelong learners and active citizens. They are taught through the relevant learning areas and offer opportunities to enrich and enhance the content of the learning areas." (AC v9) Participants attending this two-session workshop will engage in learning that [...]
Association of Independent Schools of SA
An Education Worth Having: Supporting First Nations Primary and Secondary Students
14-08-2024 @ 9:00 am
14/08/2024 @ 9:00 am - 12:30 pm - We invite educators to join our transformative professional learning workshop series dedicated to empowering schools in their mission to support First Nations students as they navigate the Primary and Secondary years of schooling. This program supported by Kaurna Elder, Aunty Elaine Magias, is designed to equip educators with the knowledge, tools and strategies needed to [...]
Association of Independent Schools of SA
Youth Mental Health First Aid Training (Term 3 Blended)
15-08-2024 @ 9:00 am
15/08/2024 @ 9:00 am - 4:00 pm - Being able to notice, support and respond to students with mental health issues is a critical skill for educators today. The Youth Mental Health First Aid training teaches the skills you need to help someone you are concerned about and is suitable for educators who work with adolescents. Mental Health First Aid is early intervention [...]
Association of Independent Schools of SA
Aboriginal Cultural Immersion Program
18-08-2024 @ 12:00 am
18/08/2024 - 24/08/2024 @ All Day - The 2024 East Arnhem Land Aboriginal Immersion Program is from 18-24 August. This successful program is in its fifth year and is offered in partnership with Culture College and the Association of Independent Schools NSW. The Aboriginal Cultural Immersion Program aims to bring together current and aspiring School Leaders and educators to experience first-hand the [...]
East Arnhem Land
HR Series: Managing Terminations of Employment
22-08-2024 @ 4:00 pm
22/08/2024 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm - This session will focus on key considerations and effective processes to manage employee terminations, including redundancies, resignations and terminations for serious misconduct or poor performance. Learn strategic approaches and communication techniques, empowering you to manage terminations effectively and ethically while safeguarding your School from potential legal complications. Audience: Principals, Business Managers and Human Resource professionals Delivery [...]
Term 3 VET Professional Learning & Networking Day
23-08-2024 @ 9:00 am
23/08/2024 @ 9:00 am - 3:00 pm - Vocational Education and Training (VET) leaders are invited to engage in the Term 3 VET Professional Learning and Networking Day in collaboration with Catholic Education SA. Attendees will participate in a variety of presentations and practical workshops from presenters including RTOs, tertiary providers, SACE Board, and industry. Opportunities to network with colleagues from other schools, [...]
Mathematics (AC v.9) Professional Learning with Tierney Kennedy
26-08-2024 @ 9:00 am
26/08/2024 @ 9:00 am - 3:30 pm - Tierney Kennedy will be providing two free professional learning sessions for F-8 school leaders and teachers on the major changes in the revised Australian Curriculum v.9 Mathematics and their implications for teaching, learning and assessment. These sessions will include information on: Content and process shifts for each year level, in jargon-free language Using the AC9 [...]
Association of Independent Schools of SA
It’s A RAP
27-08-2024 @ 9:00 am
27/08/2024 @ 9:00 am - 12:30 pm - This workshop is designed to support schools and early learning centres to deepen their Reconciliation Action Plans (RAPs), reflecting on their prior journey and creating an opportunity to challenge and strengthen content, actions and deliverables. Building a RAP team to support your progress will be essential and strategies of how to achieve this will be [...]
Association of Independent Schools of SA
Instructional Coaching Series: Coaching in Action at Brighton Grammar School
29-08-2024 @ 9:00 am
29/08/2024 @ 9:00 am - 3:30 pm - Coaching in Action days provide opportunities for coaches and coaching leads to see coaching in action in a school environment and hear from leading coaches who have worked over time to build a coaching culture in their schools. Three Coaching in Action opportunities will be provided in 2024 – one at Westminster School, Marion in [...]
Brighton Grammar School
Instructional Coaching Series: Accelerated Coaching at Brighton Grammar School
30-08-2024 @ 9:00 am
30/08/2024 @ 9:00 am - 3:30 pm - Coaching in Action days provide opportunities for coaches and coaching leads to see coaching in action in a school environment and hear from leading coaches who have worked over time to build a coaching culture in their schools. Three Coaching in Action opportunities will be provided in 2024 – one at Westminster School, Marion in [...]
Brighton Grammar School
NAPLAN: Exploring the Analysis Tool (option 1)
18-09-2024 @ 9:00 am
18/09/2024 @ 9:00 am - 11:00 am - The NAPLAN Analytical Tool provides each Independent school the opportunity to examine their NAPLAN data against the NAPLAN proficiency levels introduced in 2023. This workshop provides leadership teams with dedicated time to receive an overview and orientation of the tool. They will begin to investigate the features and functions within the tool with support from [...]
NAPLAN: Exploring the Analysis Tool (option 2)
19-09-2024 @ 1:00 pm
19/09/2024 @ 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm - The NAPLAN Analytical Tool provides each Independent school the opportunity to examine their NAPLAN data against the NAPLAN proficiency levels introduced in 2023. This workshop provides leadership teams with dedicated time to receive an overview and orientation of the tool. They will begin to investigate the features and functions within the tool with support from [...]
The Legislative and Regulatory Responsibilities Unique to School Boards
25-09-2024 @ 7:00 pm
25/09/2024 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm - Join our workshop and discover how to navigate legislative changes, meet government obligations and empower your school’s future. A panel of AISSA experts will explore the legislative and regulatory responsibilities unique to school boards. This will include the Education Standards Board's registration requirements for schools which impose significant obligations on school boards with implications for [...]
Legal Series: Enrolments and Disability
17-10-2024 @ 4:00 pm
17/10/2024 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm - This session will address the legal obligations and challenges schools face when considering or managing the enrolment of children with a disability. Audience: Principals, Business Managers and Human Resource professionals Delivery mode: online - a Zoom link will be sent closer to the event. Presenter: Sonia Albertini, Head of Legal Services, AISSA Price: There is [...]
New Thinking: New Possibilities STEM Webinar Series – STEM and Play
29-10-2024 @ 4:00 pm
29/10/2024 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm - This webinar series will bring together educators from ELC to Year 12, researchers and industry to consider new thinking, new possibilities and explore how STEM education can provide students with new opportunities and pathways for a strong and vibrant future. Webinar 4: STEM and Play Research shows that play is an important and effective way [...]
Out of School Hours Care (OSHC) Network Meeting Term 4
06-11-2024 @ 10:00 am
06/11/2024 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm - The OSHC network meetings provide a forum for provocation and discussion that responds to current sector issues. Leaders and educators will come together to engage collaboratively in ways to invigorate and enrich practice in OSHC environments. They will deeply consider the wellbeing, capabilities and curiosities of individual children and young people and ways that dynamic [...]
Association of Independent Schools of SA
Youth Mental Health First Aid Training (Term 4)
07-11-2024 @ 9:00 am
07/11/2024 - 08/11/2024 @ 9:00 am - 4:00 pm - Being able to notice, support and respond to support students with mental health issues is a critical skill for educators today. This two-day face to face Youth Mental Health First Aid training teaches the skills you need to help someone you are concerned about and is suitable for educators who work with adolescents. Mental Health [...]
Association of Independent Schools of SA
Term 4 VET Professional Learning & Networking Day
11-11-2024 @ 9:00 am
11/11/2024 @ 9:00 am - 3:00 pm - Vocational Education and Training (VET) leaders are invited to engage in the Term 4 VET Professional Learning and Networking Day in collaboration with Catholic Education SA. Attendees will participate in a variety of presentations and practical workshops from presenters including RTOs, tertiary providers, SACE Board, and industry. Opportunities to network with colleagues from other schools, [...]