primary teams & leaders: friday 30 july 2021
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Primary teams & leaders: Friday 30 July 2021
The definitive retreat on how to transform your COLLABORATIVE TEAMS!
For collaborative teams, one of the biggest challenges is knowing how to use time productively. Based on the masterful book, Collaborative Teams That Work, this highly practical retreat provides definitive guidance for teams to work through ongoing cycles of learning, so they can have maximum impact.
At their worst, collaborative teams can seem like yet another burden to bear – perhaps even afrustrating waste of time in a school day already overflowing with commitments.
If your team doesn’t know how to use its time productively, and is expected to work collaboratively with little support or knowledge on how to do this, it’s di�cult to use the power of the group to have any real impact.
Do you find your team focusing on the wrong things? Is it unclear how ongoing professional learning fits into the work of teams in a professional learning community (PLC)? Or maybe there’s just members who aren’t buying into the collective responsibility of the team.
In this intensive retreat, designed for principals, assistant principals, collaborative teams, leadership sta�, classroom teachers and specialist teachers, you’ll learn how to apply the essential evidence-based actions high-performing collaborative teams implement.
You’ll leave with new insights on how to overcome common challenges, measure impact and use clear processes to plan and conduct successful collaborative team meetings.
YOU’LL LEARN HOW TO
Take ActionInvestigate 12 actions and their associated tasks, and find out how to apply to them to your current work as teams.
Make a PlanEquip yourself with a clear process for planning and conducting collaborative team meetings that will lead to better results.
Overcome ObstaclesDevelop insights into how to overcome the common challenges associated with working as acollaborative team.
Measure ImpactLearn how successful teams genuinely measure the impact they have on student learning and what to do about it.
Design Influential AgendasLearn how successful teams utilise their agenda as the catalyst for getting real results in learning.
Super Power Your TeamDiscover the true work and focus of high-performing collaborative teams.
WHAT’S UNIQUE ABOUT THIS RETREAT
Expert LedLearn from the expertise of renowned educators and authors, Gavin Grift and Colin Sloper, who have spent their careers committed to researching, developing, applying and refining collaborative team processes that genuinely improve student learning and impact teacher practice.
Contextualised We have created TWO retreats to cater to Primary educators (30 July) and Secondary Educators (3 December). Each day is contextualised with supporting examples. Participants are supported to work on their collaborative team process so they can have maximum impact on student learning. Unlike some other retreats, we spend much less time on the ‘how’ and ‘why’. Instead we dig deeper into the actual tasks that collaborative teams in a PLC should focus their e�orts on so that they can be actioned immediately.
We're Educators TooWe’ve worked as principals, professional learning providers, sta� leaders, curriculum directors,coaches and classroom teachers – and we definitely speak your language.
SOME QUESTIONS ADDRESSED IN THIS RETREAT
• What’s critical to consider when facilitating collaborative team meetings?
• What is the best structure to enable collaborative teams to do this work?
• How do we ensure that this work makes a genuine di�erence to our school achievement data?
• What are the current tasks and items we are working on that don’t belong to the PLC process?
• How do you stay tuned to the PLC process when team members don’t share responsibility for teaching the same content?
TESTIMONIAL
It took me six years, through trial and error, to figure out what this book will explain to the reader in a logical and e�ective multi-stage process. This book is a gift to anyone who wants to support the development of strong collaborative teams, but simply does not have the access to the insight on how to do it.
Grift and Sloper have provided the practitioner with a guide that I would have given my right arm to have access to in 2001. I encourage anyone who has access to this book to read it carefully and apply the lessons that are somasterfully laid out in this brilliant, research-based manifesto on producing the most valuable asset in any e�ective school: strong collaborative teams.
Schools are institutions, not islands. The more we harness the power of WE, we will never understand why we ever chose to work in isolation.
ANTHONY MUHAMMAD,INTERNATIONALLY RENOWNED PLC AUTHOR AND EXPERT
About Your Retreat Leaders
Gavin Grift is the Founder and CEO of Grift Education. Gavin’s passion, commitment, humour and highly engaging style have made him one of Australia’s most in-demand presenters. Through his keynotes, seminars, and coaching services, Gavin connects with national and international audiences on how to cultivate authentic collaboration, build success in others and genuinely commit to reflective practice. His belief in the development of defined professional autonomy for educators both challenge and connect the head and heart of his audiences. He has led the development of PLC networks across Australia, culminating in the establishment of the Centre for Professional Learning Communities. As a leading Hawker Brownlow Education author he has combined his beliefs, research and experiences on the importance of collaboration and coaching to co-author numerous books including 5 Ways of Being, Teachers as Architects of Learning, Transformative Talk, and Transformative Collaboration.
GAVIN GRIFT
Colin Sloper is a leading expert and author on Professional Learning Communities. Colin works with systems, schools, leaders and educators to transform them into high-performing professional learningcommunities, and build their capabilities to operate as members of highly e�ective collaborative teams. His books include Voices from the Field, Transformative Collaboration and Collaborative Teams that Work. He was instrumental in leading his school to become the first recognised PLC at WorkTM school in Australia which subsequently led him tosupporting other systems and schools across the country in their PLC journey. Colin’s skills as an educational leader, speaker and coach - alongside his practical advice and knowledge as someone who has transformed schools - are highly sought after by educationalorganisations across all sectors.
COLIN SLOPER
Event detailsDate
Friday 30th July 2021
Time
Venue
8:45am to 3:15pm
Pullman Melbourne on the Park 192 Wellington ParadeEast Melbourne VIC 3002
Time
Venue
8:45am to 3:15pm
Pullman Melbourne on the Park 192 Wellington ParadeEast Melbourne VIC 3002
Date
Friday 3rd December 2021
Cost
$450 (ex GST) per person.
Primary: • Leaders of grade level teams
• Specialist teams
• PLC teams and collaborative team leaders
• Teachers
• Middle leaders and principals
• Network Leaders
Secondary:• Leaders of year level teams
• Curriculum teams
• PLC teams and cross-disciplinary teams
• Teachers
• Middle leaders and principals
• Network Leaders
This includes your copy of Collaborative Teams That Work Book
www.grifteducation.com
(03) 8686 9077
TO REGISTER FOR THIS EVENT
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
Collaborative Teams that Work Intensive Retreat is been contextualised to Primary Teams andLeaders (30 July 2021) and Secondary Teams and Leaders (3 December 2021)