Developing Whole School Approaches to Wellbeing, day 1 of 2
24-05-2022 @ 9:00 am
24/05/2022 @ 9:00 am - 3:00 pm - Schools will be supported to enhance their expertise in understanding the characteristics and elements of effective whole-of-school approaches to wellbeing. Participants will examine, implement and evaluate contextually appropriate frameworks, approaches, policies and practices. Workshop A Professor Donna Cross will present on a range of topics including: wellbeing and mental health in Australia’s children and youth, [...]
Immanuel College
OSHC Directors and Educators’ Network, Term 2 meeting
25-05-2022 @ 10:00 am
25/05/2022 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm - The OSHC Educators’ Network is structured for OSHC leaders and educators from AISSA member schools to engage collaboratively in ways which invigorate and enrich practice. It provides a forum for provocation and discussion and facilitates a community of practice approach to ongoing professional learning. Implementing the My Time Our Place Framework and the National Quality [...]
Wittunga Botanic Gardens
Leading Change in the Teaching of Literacy, session 2: comprehending as a reader, comprehending as a writer
27-05-2022 @ 9:00 am
27/05/2022 @ 9:00 am - 12:00 pm - For many students, deep comprehension of written texts is already a challenge. Yet to use the text as a resource for writing requires even further investigation. This session explains the use of mentor texts to develop both reading comprehension and writing skills through the strategy of close reading. The session will comprise three sections each [...]
Supporting Recently Appointed Principals, session 2
30-05-2022 @ 7:30 am
30/05/2022 @ 7:30 am - 9:00 am - Principals play a key role in developing and supporting the culture, ethos and character of their school. Additionally, in an Independent school, they are charged with oversight of the day-to-day responsibilities of the business of the school. The Supporting Newly Appointed Principals program will provide the opportunity for newly appointed Principals to the sector to [...]
Association of Independent Schools of SA
Transforming Classroom Practice: Learning Design
31-05-2022 @ 9:00 am
31/05/2022 @ 9:00 am - 3:00 pm - Learning Design is a framework that supports quality learning and teaching in all contexts. This one-day online workshop will engage Learning Leaders in the principles of effective learning design including: the student at the centre of learning principles of learning, teaching and assessment classroom pedagogy and practical application. Target audience – learning leaders, F [...]
Early Childhood Leaders Workshop Series ELC – Year 2, session 2
02-06-2022 @ 9:30 am
02/06/2022 @ 9:30 am - 12:00 pm - These half-day workshops will provide access to information, skills and understandings on what effective leading looks/sounds like in early childhood contexts. Keys focus areas include: leading self (emotional intelligence) effective feedback effective listening and paraphrasing leading change. This series of four sessions will focus on developing the leadership capacity of early childhood leaders (ELC - [...]
Association of Independent Schools of SA
PCRG Meeting Term 2 – option 1 face to face
02-06-2022 @ 1:30 pm
02/06/2022 @ 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm - Attendance at PCRG meetings is for PCRG members only. For more information about membership of the PCRG please contact Desiree Gilbert. PCRG members are invited to register for the term 2 meeting. The agenda and papers will be sent to registered participants 1 week prior to the meeting. A light lunch will be available from 1pm. [...]
Association of Independent Schools of SA
PCRG Meeting Term 2 – option 2 via Zoom
02-06-2022 @ 1:30 pm
02/06/2022 @ 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm - Attendance at PCRG meetings is for PCRG members only. For more information about membership of the PCRG please contact Desiree Gilbert. PCRG members are invited to register for the term 2 meeting. The agenda and papers will be sent to registered participants 1 week prior to the meeting. The Zoom link will be shared the day [...]
Transforming Classroom Practice: Formative Assessment
03-06-2022 @ 9:00 am
03/06/2022 @ 9:00 am - 3:00 pm - The educational gains associated with formative assessment have been described as “among the largest ever reported for educational interventions” OECD, 2017. Assessment, within an effective learning design, provides evidence which informs both learners and teachers equally. This one-day online workshop will engage learning leaders in an exploration of: formative assessment to extend teacher practice and [...]
Youth Mental Health First Aid, option B – Online + face to face
03-06-2022 @ 9:00 am
03/06/2022 @ 9:00 am - 3:30 pm - The Youth Mental Health First Aid (YMHFA) training teaches people the skills to help someone they are concerned about and, is very suitable for educators who work with adolescents. Mental health first aid is early intervention for mental health problems. It teaches people to recognise the signs and symptoms, which suggest a potential mental health [...]
Association of Independent Schools of SA
Building a Positive Board Culture
04-06-2022 @ 9:30 am
04/06/2022 @ 9:30 am - 3:00 pm - It is essential that a school’s Board sets the cultural and ethical tone for the school. A core part of this happens in the relationship between the Board and the school leadership, and the signals that the Board’s interactions send about what ‘good’ looks like, what is expected, what is celebrated and what is taboo. [...]
Association of Independent Schools of SA
Leading Change and Innovation, network day 1
06-06-2022 @ 9:00 am
06/06/2022 @ 9:00 am - 1:00 pm - This leadership program, designed for aspiring, middle and senior leaders and leadership teams, focuses on contemporary leadership. Leaders will be supported to undertake leadership learning, context mapping, organisational analysis and change, visioning, implementation and scaling of their own school-based project related to their current role and strategic focus. The program provides participants with a practical [...]
Association of Independent Schools of SA
Leading Change in the Teaching of Primary Mathematics, session 2
06-06-2022 @ 1:30 pm
06/06/2022 - 07/06/2022 @ 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm - The Leading Change in the Teaching of Primary Mathematics series (formerly Primary Maths Hub) focuses on building individual and social capital in relation to leading Mathematics in schools. These half-day workshops will be held once a Term and will engage learning leaders in practice exchange and stimulating professional dialogue about current and emerging best practices [...]
Association of Independent Schools of SA
Financial Management for School Leaders
07-06-2022 @ 9:00 am
07/06/2022 @ 9:00 am - 10:30 am - This session is designed for those school leaders who have minimal financial training or knowledge. It will focus on what leaders need to know, what to look out for, financial performance indicators and understanding budgets. This session aims to build the capacity of leaders to better understand school financial data and will address basic theory [...]
New Thinking: New Possibilities STEM Webinar Series, webinar 3 – Creativity and Connections in the world of Early Learning STEM exploration
07-06-2022 @ 4:00 pm
07/06/2022 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm - The Common Goal of a Connected World Children are born scientists (Neil DeGrasse Tyson) They build their knowledge and understanding of the world by observing, asking questions, and investigating. In this session, Maria Taylor from Nature Play SA will guide participants through a series of engaging activities to explore; the curious mind inside of all [...]
Transforming Classroom Practice Masterclass 1: Using the NLNLP to Track and Monitor Learning, Foundation-Year 10
08-06-2022 @ 9:00 am
08/06/2022 @ 9:00 am - 12:30 pm - How might we use the National Literacy and Numeracy Learning Progressions, (March 2020, v.3) to: facilitate a shared professional understanding of students’ expected literacy and numeracy development? identify the literacy and numeracy knowledge that enables students to access content across learning areas? locate the current literacy and numeracy development of students? identify where to next [...]
Inclusive Education Focus Sessions for School Leadership, session 2
08-06-2022 @ 4:00 pm
08/06/2022 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm - The AISSA Inclusive Education Team will work with school leaders to build capacity to strengthen approaches to specific identified contexts of inclusive education. This includes catering for students with complex learning profiles. Inclusive education as a model of practice is currently the focus of national conversation and documented in research as best practice. School leaders [...]
Spotlight Event A: SATAC Update
08-06-2022 @ 4:00 pm
08/06/2022 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm - The AISSA will host an information session and Q and A Forum with SATAC’s Chief Executive, Stuart Mossman, and Manager Applicant Services, Scott Adkin, regarding tertiary admission processes. The session will assist schools to consider the evolving landscape in tertiary pathways and the implications for schools to enable them to respond accordingly. Target audience [...]
2022 AISSA Leaders’ Dinner
09-06-2022 @ 6:00 pm
09/06/2022 @ 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 Annual AISSA 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 9 June 2022 at 6:00pm for 6:30pm [...]
National Wine Centre of Australia
Financial Management for Non- Accountants: Improving Your Financial Literacy
14-06-2022 @ 7:00 pm
14/06/2022 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm - This workshop is designed for aspiring and new Board members and those wishing to improve their financial literacy. The workshop is designed for Board members who have minimal financial training or knowledge. It will focus on what Board members need to know, what to look out for, financial performance indicators and understanding budgets. It aims [...]
Discovering AI – Creating Curious Classrooms Action Research, Semester 2 intake
15-06-2022 @ 9:00 am
15/06/2022 @ 9:00 am - 12:00 pm - This professional learning is an opportunity for primary and secondary Mathematics and/or Digital Technologies teachers (F - Year 10) to learn about the links in their subject to artificial intelligence (AI). This rapidly expanding, new field of knowledge is impacting every aspect of our lives, often in ways we do not see. This professional learning [...]
Supporting Recently Appointed Principals, session 3
21-06-2022 @ 7:30 am
21/06/2022 @ 7:30 am - 9:00 am - Principals play a key role in developing and supporting the culture, ethos and character of their school. Additionally, in an Independent school, they are charged with oversight of the day-to-day responsibilities of the business of the school. The Supporting Newly Appointed Principals program will provide the opportunity for newly appointed Principals to the sector to [...]
Association of Independent Schools of SA
Teacher Certification – Recognising Teacher Excellence, Semester 1 Workshop C
21-06-2022 @ 9:00 am
21/06/2022 @ 9:00 am - 3:00 pm - Since 2014, the AISSA has supported national HALT certification in South Australia in conjunction with Catholic Education South Australia and the Department for Education under the South Australian Teacher Certification Committee (SATCC) – the certifying authority in South Australia. Certification provides a high quality, nationally consistent approach to identifying and certifying teachers in accordance with [...]
HR Series: Performance Management
23-06-2022 @ 4:00 pm
23/06/2022 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm - This workshop will present tips for rewarding good performance, dealing with employees and their Union when standards of performance fall short and developing internal templates and systems to document the performance improvement process. Target audience – Principals, human resource professionals, line managers Delivery mode – Zoom Presenters – Elizabeth Sexton, Head of Workplace and [...]
Science: Ancient Knowledge Meets Western Science ELC -Year 6
23-06-2022 @ 9:00 am
23/06/2022 @ 9:00 am - 12:00 pm - This workshop is designed to provide teachers and educators from ELC to Year 6 with hands-on activities that will allow their students to explore scientific concepts which Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples have used for millennia. Teacher presenters, in partnership with an Aboriginal Elder, will share how student learning of scientific concepts can be [...]
Association of Independent Schools of SA
Transforming Classroom Practice Masterclass 2: Using the NLNLP to Track and Monitor Learning, Foundation -Year 10
24-06-2022 @ 9:00 am
24/06/2022 @ 9:00 am - 12:30 pm - How might we use the National Literacy and Numeracy Learning Progressions, (March 2020, v.3) to: facilitate a shared professional understanding of students’ expected literacy and numeracy development? identify the literacy and numeracy knowledge that enables students to access content across learning areas? locate the current literacy and numeracy development of students? identify where to next [...]
Supporting Language Development in the Early and Junior Years, session 1
24-06-2022 @ 9:00 am
24/06/2022 @ 9:00 am - 12:00 pm - Oral language, phonological awareness and print awareness are the foundations upon which literacy is built. For some students with a language disability, difficulty, or delay, their access to the curriculum may be impacted. This series of two, three-hour workshops will equip school and ELC leaders and teachers to: further develop knowledge of typical and non-typical [...]
Association of Independent Schools of SA
Nationally Consistent Collection of Data, session 2
27-06-2022 @ 9:00 am
27/06/2022 @ 9:00 am - 3:00 pm - The national data collection on students with disability acknowledges the work already undertaken in schools to support students with disability. It assists schools to identify and to support students with disability so they can access and participate in education on the same basis as their peers. This workshop series will assist inclusive education coordinators and [...]
Immanuel College
Leading Change and Innovation, network day 2
28-06-2022 @ 9:00 am
28/06/2022 @ 9:00 am - 1:00 pm - This leadership program, designed for aspiring, middle and senior leaders and leadership teams, focuses on contemporary leadership. Leaders will be supported to undertake leadership learning, context mapping, organisational analysis and change, visioning, implementation and scaling of their own school-based project related to their current role and strategic focus. The program provides participants with a practical [...]
Association of Independent Schools of SA
Teacher Certification – Recognising Teacher Excellence, Semester 2 Workshop A
02-08-2022 @ 4:00 pm
02/08/2022 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm - Since 2014, the AISSA has supported national HALT certification in South Australia in conjunction with Catholic Education South Australia and the Department for Education under the South Australian Teacher Certification Committee (SATCC) – the certifying authority in South Australia. Certification provides a high quality, nationally consistent approach to identifying and certifying teachers in accordance with [...]
Spotlight Event B: University Admissions Pathways Forum Q and A – Expert Panel
04-08-2022 @ 4:00 pm
04/08/2022 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm - Each year the AISSA invites leading universities to share the latest updates regarding admissions processes and future directions. This session invites all school leaders and teachers to join the discussion regarding current and future directions for admissions into both local and national universities. Universities represented: University of Adelaide Flinders University of SA University of South [...]
Developing Whole School Approaches to Wellbeing, day 2 of 2
04-08-2022 @ 9:00 am
04/08/2022 @ 9:00 am - 1:00 pm - Schools will be supported to enhance their expertise in understanding the characteristics and elements of effective whole-of-school approaches to wellbeing. Participants will examine, implement and evaluate contextually appropriate frameworks, approaches, policies and practices. Workshop A Professor Donna Cross will present on a range of topics including: wellbeing and mental health in Australia’s children and youth, [...]
Immanuel College
Aboriginal Cultural Immersion Program
07-08-2022 @ 12:00 am
07/08/2022 - 13/08/2022 @ All Day - The Aboriginal Cultural Immersion Program (Sunday 7 August 2022 to Saturday 13 August 2022) aims to bring together current and aspiring school leaders and educators wanting to know more about our First Nations Peoples, and to experience first-hand the uniqueness of an Aboriginal culture. This program will provide opportunities to deepen your understanding of Australia’s [...]
East Arnhem Land
Supporting Recently Appointed Principals, session 4
09-08-2022 @ 7:30 am
09/08/2022 @ 7:30 am - 9:00 am - Principals play a key role in developing and supporting the culture, ethos and character of their school. Additionally, in an Independent school, they are charged with oversight of the day-to-day responsibilities of the business of the school. The Supporting Newly Appointed Principals program will provide the opportunity for newly appointed Principals to the sector to [...]
Association of Independent Schools of SA
New Thinking: New Possibilities STEM Webinar Series, webinar 4
09-08-2022 @ 4:00 pm
09/08/2022 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm - The 2022 Webinar Series aims to bring together educators from the Early Years to Year 12, researchers and industry to consider new thinking and possibilities and explore how STEM education can provide students with new opportunities and pathways for a strong and vibrant future. The 2022 webinar series will include the following topics: Discovering Artificial [...]
Supporting and Responding to Children with Challenging Behaviours in Early Learning Contexts, session 3
10-08-2022 @ 9:30 am
10/08/2022 @ 9:30 am - 12:00 pm - The early childhood sector has identified an ongoing need to better respond to and support children with identified behavioural difficulties and/or disability in early childhood environments. Early learning educational settings offer many opportunities for early intervention and intentionally inclusive practice supporting engagement, wellbeing and continued developmental progress. This series of workshops will address challenges and [...]
Association of Independent Schools of SA
OSHC Directors and Educators’ Network, Term 3 meeting
17-08-2022 @ 10:00 am
17/08/2022 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm - The OSHC Educators’ Network is structured for OSHC leaders and educators from AISSA member schools to engage collaboratively in ways which invigorate and enrich practice. It provides a forum for provocation and discussion and facilitates a community of practice approach to ongoing professional learning. Implementing the My Time Our Place Framework and the National Quality [...]
Wittunga Botanic Gardens
Leading Change and Innovation, network day 3
22-08-2022 @ 9:00 am
22/08/2022 @ 9:00 am - 1:00 pm - This leadership program, designed for aspiring, middle and senior leaders and leadership teams, focuses on contemporary leadership. Leaders will be supported to undertake leadership learning, context mapping, organisational analysis and change, visioning, implementation and scaling of their own school-based project related to their current role and strategic focus. The program provides participants with a practical [...]
Association of Independent Schools of SA
Teacher Certification – Recognising Teacher Excellence, Semester 2 Workshop B
23-08-2022 @ 9:00 am
23/08/2022 @ 9:00 am - 3:00 pm - Since 2014, the AISSA has supported national HALT certification in South Australia in conjunction with Catholic Education South Australia and the Department for Education under the South Australian Teacher Certification Committee (SATCC) – the certifying authority in South Australia. Certification provides a high quality, nationally consistent approach to identifying and certifying teachers in accordance with [...]
Association of Independent Schools of SA
New Thinking: New Possibilities STEM Webinar Series, webinar 5
23-08-2022 @ 4:00 pm
23/08/2022 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm - The 2022 Webinar Series aims to bring together educators from the Early Years to Year 12, researchers and industry to consider new thinking and possibilities and explore how STEM education can provide students with new opportunities and pathways for a strong and vibrant future. The 2022 webinar series will include the following topics: Discovering Artificial [...]
Inclusive Education Focus Sessions for School Leadership, session 3
24-08-2022 @ 4:00 pm
24/08/2022 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm - The AISSA Inclusive Education Team will work with school leaders to build capacity to strengthen approaches to specific identified contexts of inclusive education. This includes catering for students with complex learning profiles. Inclusive education as a model of practice is currently the focus of national conversation and documented in research as best practice. School leaders [...]
Early Childhood Leaders Workshop Series ELC – Year 2, session 3
25-08-2022 @ 9:30 am
25/08/2022 @ 9:30 am - 12:00 pm - These half-day workshops will provide access to information, skills and understandings on what effective leading looks/sounds like in early childhood contexts. Keys focus areas include: leading self (emotional intelligence) effective feedback effective listening and paraphrasing leading change. This series of four sessions will focus on developing the leadership capacity of early childhood leaders (ELC - [...]
Association of Independent Schools of SA
NAPLAN: Interpreting and understanding your 2022 School and Student Summary Report (SSSR), option 1
26-08-2022 @ 9:00 am
26/08/2022 @ 9:00 am - 12:00 pm - The School and Student Summary Report (SSSR) is the report available to NAPLAN online schools from the Assessment Platform. The purpose of the interactive SSSR is to provide preliminary feedback on how students and cohorts of students within schools performed in NAPLAN Online. The SSSR comprises six reports: school item report class summary report class [...]
VET & Workplace Learning PD and Networking Day
26-08-2022 @ 9:00 am
26/08/2022 @ 9:00 am - 3:00 pm - Venue: TBA The VET & Workplace Learning Professional Development & Networking Days are essential workshops for VET/workplace learning coordinators and career counsellors. Programs are constructed based upon the needs of schools at the respective time of year. Topics/presentations that tend to occur every year include: updates from the SACE Board, relevant to VET workplace learning [...]
NAPLAN: Interpreting and understanding your 2022 School and Student Summary Report (SSSR), option 2
29-08-2022 @ 12:30 pm
29/08/2022 @ 12:30 pm - 3:30 pm - The School and Student Summary Report (SSSR) is the report available to NAPLAN online schools from the Assessment Platform. The purpose of the interactive SSSR is to provide preliminary feedback on how students and cohorts of students within schools performed in NAPLAN Online. The SSSR comprises six reports: school item report class summary report class [...]
Brightpath: Next Steps
29-08-2022 @ 9:00 am
29/08/2022 @ 9:00 am - 3:30 pm - Brightpath enables teachers to make informed and reliable professional assessment judgements of their students’ writing through comparison against a set of calibrated exemplars and descriptors. The accompanying software records the results of assessments and provides immediate reporting. The data and information then available assist teachers to plan effectively for all students in their classes and [...]
Association of Independent Schools of SA
Leading Change in the Teaching of Primary Mathematics, session 3
30-08-2022 @ 1:30 pm
30/08/2022 @ 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm - The Leading Change in the Teaching of Primary Mathematics series (formerly Primary Maths Hub) focuses on building individual and social capital in relation to leading Mathematics in schools. These half-day workshops will be held once a Term and will engage learning leaders in practice exchange and stimulating professional dialogue about current and emerging best practices [...]
Association of Independent Schools of SA
What Does it Mean to be on a School Board?
31-08-2022 @ 7:00 pm
31/08/2022 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm - This workshop is designed for those who are new to the school board. It will focus on good governance practices including: particular responsibilities for school board members roles and responsibilities including legal, compliance and fiduciary responsibilities what it means to be an effective board member regarding participation, relationships, confidentiality and meeting procedures. VUCA is a [...]
Transforming Classroom Practice: General Capabilities
31-08-2022 @ 9:00 am
31/08/2022 @ 9:00 am - 3:00 pm - “In the Australian Curriculum, capability encompasses knowledge, skills, behaviours and dispositions. Students develop capability when they apply knowledge and skills confidently, effectively and appropriately in complex and changing circumstances, in their learning at school and in their lives outside school.” (ACARA, v8.4) This one-day online workshop will engage learning leaders in how the General Capabilities [...]
Leading Change in the Teaching of Literacy, session 3
02-09-2022 @ 9:00 am
02/09/2022 @ 9:00 am - 12:00 pm - This professional learning opportunity will provide learning leaders with opportunities to engage in dialogue about current best practices in literacy, including: current educational research expanding perspectives about literacy learning and teaching new initiatives in literacy and schools sharing literacy initiatives generating ideas for action professional discourse. Three sessions will be offered throughout 2022 and each [...]
Leading Reconciliation Education
06-09-2022 @ 9:00 am
06/09/2022 @ 9:00 am - 12:00 pm - This workshop, designed specifically for leaders from ELC to Year 12, will help you to lead teams on the key aspects of reconciliation. Key questions that will be addressed include: - Why is reconciliation in education important? Why is a RAP essential? What are the effective strategies for implementing a RAP? Examples [...]
Association of Independent Schools of SA
Supporting Language Development in the Early and Junior Years, session 2
09-09-2022 @ 9:00 am
09/09/2022 @ 9:00 am - 12:00 pm - Oral language, phonological awareness and print awareness are the foundations upon which literacy is built. For some students with a language disability, difficulty, or delay, their access to the curriculum may be impacted. This series of two, three-hour workshops will equip school and ELC leaders and teachers to: further develop knowledge of typical and non-typical [...]
Association of Independent Schools of SA
The Legislative and Regulatory Responsibilities Unique to School Boards
13-09-2022 @ 7:00 pm
13/09/2022 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm - This workshop will explore the legislative and regulatory responsibilities that are 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 individual board members. The session will also explain the specific obligations to be met to ensure school board members [...]
Legal Series: Family Law
15-09-2022 @ 4:00 pm
15/09/2022 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm - Family Law considerations from a school perspective will be presented include a discussion on the rights of parents and children, strategies to respond to critical incidents. Target audience – Principals Delivery mode – Zoom Presenters – Sonia Albertini, Head of Legal Services, AISSA For registration enquiries please contact Sonia Harrison. A Zoom link [...]
Supporting Recently Appointed Principals, session 5
16-09-2022 @ 7:30 am
16/09/2022 @ 7:30 am - 9:00 am - Principals play a key role in developing and supporting the culture, ethos and character of their school. Additionally, in an Independent school, they are charged with oversight of the day-to-day responsibilities of the business of the school. The Supporting Newly Appointed Principals program will provide the opportunity for newly appointed Principals to the sector to [...]
Association of Independent Schools of SA
Leading for High Impact School Improvement: Building Evaluative Capacity, session 2
21-09-2022 @ 9:00 am
21/09/2022 @ 9:00 am - 3:30 pm - School improvement is a moral imperative because children are entitled to the best education we can provide in order to fully realise their unique potential. Embarking on a school improvement journey requires a passionate desire on the part of leadership to improve teaching and learning which must be underpinned by careful planning if improvement is [...]
Association of Independent Schools of SA
Supporting Brightpath Implementation, session 2
23-09-2022 @ 9:00 am
23/09/2022 @ 9:00 am - 11:30 am - Brightpath enables teachers to make informed and reliable professional assessment judgements of their students’ writing through comparison against a set of calibrated exemplars and descriptors. The accompanying software records the results of assessments and provides immediate reporting. The data and information then available assist teachers to plan effectively for all students in their classes and [...]
Teacher Certification – Recognising Teacher Excellence, Semester 2 Workshop C
13-10-2022 @ 9:00 am
13/10/2022 @ 9:00 am - 3:00 pm - Since 2014, the AISSA has supported national HALT certification in South Australia in conjunction with Catholic Education South Australia and the Department for Education under the South Australian Teacher Certification Committee (SATCC) – the certifying authority in South Australia. Certification provides a high quality, nationally consistent approach to identifying and certifying teachers in accordance with [...]
Association of Independent Schools of SA
Working with Reconciliation in your Educational Context
18-10-2022 @ 9:00 am
18/10/2022 @ 9:00 am - 12:00 pm - This workshop is designed specifically for teachers and educators who are inspired to learn more about reconciliation. The workshop offers strategies to make authentic connections between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures and the ACARA curriculum, the EYLF and the AITSL Professional standards. You will be provided with a range of resources to [...]
Association of Independent Schools of SA
Structures and Practices Supporting the Behaviour of Students with Disability, session 2
21-10-2022 @ 9:00 am
21/10/2022 @ 9:00 am - 3:00 pm - Day 1: This full day workshop, hosted by the AISSA and presented by external psychologists Kerry Burke and Lisa Chisholm, will explore student behaviour through a developmental lens. The workshop will focus on: social and emotional development effects of trauma and adverse life events supportive classroom practice and strategies for both typically developing students and [...]
Association of Independent Schools of SA
Leading Change and Innovation, network day 4
24-10-2022 @ 9:00 am
24/10/2022 @ 9:00 am - 1:00 pm - This leadership program, designed for aspiring, middle and senior leaders and leadership teams, focuses on contemporary leadership. Leaders will be supported to undertake leadership learning, context mapping, organisational analysis and change, visioning, implementation and scaling of their own school-based project related to their current role and strategic focus. The program provides participants with a practical [...]
Association of Independent Schools of SA
New Thinking: New Possibilities STEM Webinar Series, webinar 6
01-11-2022 @ 4:00 pm
01/11/2022 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm - The 2022 Webinar Series aims to bring together educators from the Early Years to Year 12, researchers and industry to consider new thinking and possibilities and explore how STEM education can provide students with new opportunities and pathways for a strong and vibrant future. The 2022 webinar series will include the following topics: Discovering Artificial [...]
Nationally Consistent Collection of Data, session 3
07-11-2022 @ 9:00 am
07/11/2022 @ 9:00 am - 3:00 pm - The national data collection on students with disability acknowledges the work already undertaken in schools to support students with disability. It assists schools to identify and to support students with disability so they can access and participate in education on the same basis as their peers. This workshop series will assist inclusive education coordinators and [...]
Immanuel College
Leading Change in the Teaching of Primary Mathematics, session 4
08-11-2022 @ 1:30 pm
08/11/2022 @ 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm - The Leading Change in the Teaching of Primary Mathematics series (formerly Primary Maths Hub) focuses on building individual and social capital in relation to leading Mathematics in schools. These half-day workshops will be held once a Term and will engage learning leaders in practice exchange and stimulating professional dialogue about current and emerging best practices [...]
Association of Independent Schools of SA
Inclusive Education Focus Sessions for School Leadership, session 4
09-11-2022 @ 4:00 pm
09/11/2022 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm - The AISSA Inclusive Education team will work with school leaders to build capacity to strengthen approaches to specific identified contexts of Inclusive Education. This includes catering for students with Complex Learning Profiles. Inclusive Education as a model of practice is currently the focus of national conversation and documented in research as best practice. School leaders [...]
OSHC Directors and Educators’ Network, Term 4 meeting
09-11-2022 @ 10:00 am
09/11/2022 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm - The OSHC Educators’ Network is structured for OSHC leaders and educators from AISSA member schools to engage collaboratively in ways which invigorate and enrich practice. It provides a forum for provocation and discussion and facilitates a community of practice approach to ongoing professional learning. Implementing the My Time Our Place Framework and the National Quality [...]
Wittunga Botanic Gardens
VET & Workplace Learning PD and Networking Day
14-11-2022 @ 9:00 am
14/11/2022 @ 9:00 am - 3:00 pm - The VET & Workplace Learning Professional Development & Networking Days are essential workshops for VET/workplace learning coordinators and career counsellors. Programs are constructed based upon the needs of schools at the respective time of year. Topics/presentations that tend to occur every year include: updates from the SACE Board, relevant to VET workplace learning updates from [...]
The University of Adelaide
Leading for High Impact School Improvement: Building Evaluative Capacity, session 3
16-11-2022 @ 9:00 am
16/11/2022 @ 9:00 am - 3:30 pm - School improvement is a moral imperative because children are entitled to the best education we can provide in order to fully realise their unique potential. Embarking on a school improvement journey requires a passionate desire on the part of leadership to improve teaching and learning which must be underpinned by careful planning if improvement is [...]
Association of Independent Schools of SA
Early Childhood Leaders Workshop Series ELC – Year 2, session 4
17-11-2022 @ 9:30 am
17/11/2022 @ 9:30 am - 12:00 pm - These half-day workshops will provide access to information, skills and understandings on what effective leading looks/sounds like in early childhood contexts. Keys focus areas include: leading self (emotional intelligence) effective feedback effective listening and paraphrasing leading change. This series of four sessions will focus on developing the leadership capacity of early childhood leaders (ELC - [...]
Association of Independent Schools of SA
