Leading Impactful Schools: From Evidence to Action
2025-08-06 09:00 - 15:30 (Australia/Adelaide) | Association of Independent Schools of SA, 128 Greenhill Road, Unley, SA, 5061, Australia
Are you leading a school initiative and want to ensure it has impact and delivers meaningful, measurable results?

Designed for: Principals, Heads of Schools, Curriculum/Learning Leaders and Wellbeing Leaders.

Your commitment: 13 contact hours plus any required reading.

AITSL Professional Standards for Teachers: Focus areas 3.6, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3 and 7.4.

Delivery mode: 2 x face-to-face workshops with presenter joining in person and online.

Presented by:
Rydr Tracy, Director of Education at Social Ventures Australia
Julie Tarzia, Senior Educational Consultant, AISSA
Désirée Gilbert, Senior Educational Consultant, AISSA

Price: $675.00 per person (GST inclusive).

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

6 August 2025, 9:00am-3:30pm
29 October 2025, 9:00am-3:30pm

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

Registration closes: 30 July 2025 at 5:00pm.

Program Overview: Join Rydr Tracy, a leading expert in strategy, evaluation, and impact, for a practical, results-focused program designed specifically for school leaders and those aspiring to lead. Craft your evaluation and implementation skills and move from well-intentioned programs to actionable success.

What You’ll Learn:

Build an Evaluative Culture

Develop mindsets, skillsets, and processes for lasting change

Learn to manage up and down while navigating complex school contexts

Responsive Innovation in Practice

Evaluate in real time, know when to go fast and when to go slow

Understand the tension and synergy between evaluation & innovation

Learn how to milestone your initiatives using clear evaluative tools

Permission to Stop: De-implementation as a Strategic tool

Confidently evaluate and stop what’s not working

Apply light-touch logic models and develop healthy evaluative habits

Research Your Own School & Launch PLC Research Inquiries

Frame school-based research questions and engage in effective problem identification

Communicate Evaluatively

Embed evaluative discipline in how you write, speak, and lead.

Enquiries: please contact Keira Brault.

Terms and Conditions: Registration for this event 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.
