Date/Time:

07/03/2025 - 12:30 pm - 2:30 pm

Event Categories:

• Building Teacher Excellence
• Curriculum
• Leadership
• Professional Learning

Description:

Deepen your understanding of current educational ideas featuring national and international experts as they share thought provoking insights and new perspectives on emerging learning dilemmas and opportunities.  

Designed for: Principals, Heads of Schools, Curriculum/Learning Leaders, Primary Teachers and Secondary Teachers.

Your commitment: 11 contact hours plus any required reading.

AITSL Professional Standards for Teachers: Focus areas 1.2, 1.5, 2.3, 5.1, 5.3, 5.5 and 6.4.

Delivery mode: 5 x face-to-face workshops with presenters joining online and in person.

Presented by:
Jared Cooney Horvath Leading Educational Neuroscientist, Author and International Speaker
Dr Shyam Barr, Education Consultant and Author
Professor Yong Zhao Foundation Distinguished Professor, School of Education, University of Kansas
Dr Thomas Guskey, Professor of Educational Psychology

Price: $900.00 per person (GST inclusive).

Key Dates: By registering for this series, you are committing to attend the following sessions:

7 March 2025, 12:30am-2:30pm
20 March 2025, 2:00pm-5:00pm
29 May 2025, 9:00am-11:00am
11 June 2025, 1:30pm-3:30pm
14 August 2025, 9:00am-11:00am

Location: AISSA, 128 Greenhill Road, Unley SA 5061.

Registration closes: 28 February 2025 at 5:00pm.

Program Overview: Consider what we know about developing capabilities and how ‘measure what matters’ to communicate success in principled and future focused ways. 

This 5-part series will focus on:

1. Reimagining Capabilities: Empowering the Curriculum: Consider a new perspective on how to best develop successful capabilities and dispositions leveraging the role of knowledge featured in the ACV9 and the SACE Curriculum. This event will feature global learning and neuroscience expert Dr Jared Cooney Horvath and other guest contributors engaged in this work.
2. Reimagining Metacognition – Educating to Self-Regulate: Join expert Dr Shyam Barr as he shares key strategies for enhancing metacognition and self-regulation for learning. Empower your students with these core capabilities to unleash their learning potential.
3. Reimagining Communications of Success Part 1: “More than A Grade: When does what we assess hurt?” This panel discussion will consider current assessment and reporting narratives and shine a light on how to navigate the modern assessment and evidence landscape while considering the new models for communicating learning success to our stakeholders. Featuring Professor Yong Zhao, Dr Jared Cooney Horvath and more. 
4. Reimagining Metacognition – Educating to Self-Regulate: Dr Shyam Barr continues this work as schools share the most powerful possibilities for enhancing metacognition and self-regulation to empower learners in their contexts.
5. Reimagining Communications of Success Part 2: As we conclude this series, join world leading assessment expert Dr Thomas Guskey as he illuminates new paths to reflect on how to assess what we value, the key enabling skills and practical approaches evidencing their growth in meaningful ways.

Enquiries: please contact Keira Brault.

Terms and Conditions: Registration for this series will incur the fee detailed above. This fee will be invoiced after the event and is payable unless written notice of cancellation is received seven or more days prior to the event.  See the AISSA’s Professional Learning Terms and Conditions for the full registration terms and conditions including the cancellation policy.