Strand

Workshop descriptor

Behaviour

Classroom teachers spend a lot of time concentrating on behaviour. Understanding what is driving behaviour, will assist teachers and schools to work more effectively with students. This strand provides an opportunity to share what is working.

Mental Health

Schools are seeing more and more students presenting with complex mental health needs across our settings. How do we engage, manage and extend these students? How can our teaching and leading lead to better outcomes for these complex students?

Resilience and Wellbeing

Trauma is widely recognised as affecting many students in SSPs and other settings.  This strand examines the effects of trauma; how the brain works, reactions, regulation, academic success and ongoing mental health.  This strand provides an opportunity to develop an understanding of trauma informed practices to embed across all settings

Curriculum / Innovation

This strand provides an opportunity to share curriculum implementation in a range of settings and share good practice in programming for students with special learning needs. The workshops will include implementation of the NSW syllabuses for the Australian curriculum, innovative practices as well as ‘tried and true’ practices.

Professional support

This strand focuses on the promotion and facilitation of professional support to teachers  and can include PDP practices/experiences, accreditation processes and examples, early career teacher programs, induction, coaching, mentoring, collaborative planning and assessment processes, observation and  feedback.

School Stories

This strand provides an opportunity for teachers to share the great work they do in supporting students with special education needs. This strand is very broad and can include innovative practices, research based practices, evaluation processes, project work.

Workshop descriptor

Behaviour and Mental Health

This strand covers the topics of staff and students’ mental health and behaviour. Schools are seeing a huge increase in student complexity. As leaders how is that complexity understood and managed?

Resilience and Wellbeing

This strand looks at the role leaders play in managing whole school wellbeing and increasing resilience of both staff and students. This strand is also about maintaining a leader’s own wellbeing in times of adversity and pressure.

Curriculum / Innovation

This strand provides an opportunity to share leading teaching and learning in a range of settings and to share good practice in creating a positive culture for learning that is challenging and supportive. This strand can include collaborative planning, monitoring and reviewing the effectiveness of learning, collaborative leadership through engaging with other schools to share and improve practice.

Professional Support

This strand focuses on the work that leaders do in building a professional community that is supportive with an emphasis on continuous improvement in teaching and learning. This strand includes managing performance, effective professional learning and feedback, building the capacity of staff both teaching and no-teaching. It can also include how leaders build a culture of coaching and mentoring and peer review.

Evidence and Practice

This strand provides an opportunity for leaders to share best management practices and use of resources to build a culture of review, responsibility and shared accountability. This strand includes how leaders engage and inspire staff to commit to evidence based practices that link directly to a positive impact on student learning.