THE EARLY CAREER CAPACITY BUILDING PROGRAM

‘Building the capacity of our beginning teachers and aspiring leaders’

Reflecting on my time as a teacher, principal and regional director, I know with certainty that the key

ingredient for all of the successes we were able to drive across a range of settings was the capacity

of the teams that I was lucky enough to lead. We started EC with this belief defining our thinking,

but also in response to the urgent need for leadership capacity, as we enter into a period of massive

change with half of Australia’s school leaders set to retire by 2018. One of the most powerful ways

to fill the leadership pipeline with educators who can step up and fill these positions as effectively as

their predecessors is to engage aspiring leaders with beginning teachers in a mentoring capacity.

We are therefore thrilled to propose the Early Career Capacity Building Program (ECCB) and

contribute to the development of a generation of authentic leaders who passionately, innovatively

and effectively foster successful futures for all of our children.

The ECCB program was co-designed with a range of stakeholders from NSW Education to align with

identified areas of need for beginning teachers and aspiring leadership and defined by both the

School Excellence Framework and BOSTES.

We look forward to working with educators from Ultimo schools to create more a impactful and

committed workforce that creates ever brighter futures for young people.

Dave Faulkner Chief Executive Officer

WWW.EDUCATIONCHANGEMAKERS.COM

From the CEO

‘Wow. Being in the Changemaker Program has changed my career. Knowing that there are teachers all across the globe,

standing up, identifying challenges, solving them and making a difference for many, many children makes me want to keep

going and to stand up in my leadership.’

2014 Changemaker

‘A few years into my teaching career I was burnt out, feeling like I couldn’t make a difference and that I was not supposed to be in

education. The Changemaker Program changed everything. I have never been so motivated to teach.’

2012 Alumni

Overview

Why Early Year Capacity Building?

NSW DEC has identified through the ‘Great Teaching, Inspired Learning’ policy that quality support

of beginning teachers is essential in building the long term capacity and impact of the teaching

workforce. This is all the more pressing when looking at the current reality where 53% of teachers

in NSW are aged over 45 and by 2018, 50% of Australian school leaders are expected to retire. In

addition, the facilitation of quality of collegial support enables early career teachers to manage

their teaching.

Who Are Education Changemakers?

Education Changemakers (EC) has been working nationally alongside early career teachers since

2012 through a combination of tailored new teacher programs and the Changemaker Program (a

focused aspiring leader program). The EC team have a strong track record in customising professional

learning programs that meet the needs of specific contexts and deliver practical, enjoyable learning

that gets results. 100% of participants in the Changemaker Program over the last three years from

across Australia would recommend the program to their colleagues. EC was also highlighted in the

SVA Growing Great Teachers project as a case study of exceptional work with early career teachers.

Who is the Early Career Capacity Building Program For?

The Early Career Capacity Building (ECCB) program is for teams of two, one beginning teacher (in

their first two years of teaching) and one aspiring leader (who is looking for to develop as a leader

and mentor). These teams will be either from the same school or from a community of schools and

will work together for the two years of the program.

Overview Continued

What are the Key Components of the Program?

1) An initial SELECTION of participating teams (beginning teachers and aspiring leaders).

2) Face-to-face WORKSHOPS with aspiring leaders (mentors) and beginning teachers in the first

year of the program. This involves an INITIAL workshop (three days for aspiring leaders and two

days for beginning teachers), a SECOND workshop (three days for aspiring leaders and two days

for beginning teachers), and a THIRD workshop (two days for aspiring leaders and two days for

beginning teachers) which includes one combined day with all participants. At Workshop One and

Two the final day sees the aspiring leaders and begining teachers together. Similarly at the third

workshop aspiring leaders are together. During these workshops beginning teachers will receive

training specific to their needs and context and aspiring leaders will receive innovative leadership

and mentoring training. During the combined workshops participants will have the opportunity

to collaborate to learn from and with each other in a powerful professional learning community

personalised to the needs of the participants. More detail on the face to face workshops for each of

these components can be found in the appendix of this brochure.

3) Online curation of CUSTOMISED PROFESSIONAL LEARNING COMMUNITIES for beginning

teachers, aspiring leaders and a combined PLC for all participants in the program across the two

years. The MyED platform will be utilised for this.

4) UNLIMITED COACHING for all participants across the two years of the program with the workshop

facilitators who have all worked in schools as teachers and school leaders.

5) ONGOING SUPPORT from the EC team to create self-sustaining professional learning communities

during the two years of the program.

*Further details of the program can be found in the appendix.

This Program was created for educators, by educators and we are proud of the unique offerings that

we provide to all of our partners and participants. Some of these include:

- Our programs are grounded in the AUSTRALIAN STANDARDS (in fact some of our team come

from AITSL) and we have a guarantee that all of our facilitators taught and held leadership positions

in schools. Our team also ground this practical experience with postgraduate study at institutions

including Cambridge and Harvard.

- We ARRANGE all of the travel and accommodation considerations for our facilitators and include

this in our quoted price, reducing logistics for your team and allowing you to focus your time and

efforts on improving education outcomes for students.

- Rather than having you organise equipment and stationary for the workshops, we BRING all of our

own equipment as well as custom branded stationary and supplies.

- We always utilise TEAM TEACHING, bringing two diverse facilitators to every workshop and

ensuring that both facilitators are also available for ongoing coaching. In any workshop you book,

you will have at least two of the lead facilitators detailed later in this document.

- Our workshops are INTERESTING & ENGAGING and all of our facilitators are experienced and

in demand speakers and coaches. During our workshops, our facilitators only speak for 40% of the

time, allowing 60% of the program for practical work, prototyping of ideas and focused discussion.

- We are RESPONSIBLE GLOBAL CITIZENS, and a certified Benefit Corporation with a passionate

belief that businesses are a huge force for social change. Our for profit status allows us to find

and keep world class facilitators, but we direct a significant proportion of our profits to supporting

education projects that lift people out of poverty across the globe with our charity partner Spark*.

The EC Difference

‘It is so different from other PD. So informative, so creative and so engaging. You really want to

participate and it is useful immediately.’ 2014 Participant

‘It is just so much fun. I am looking at my watch thinking NO, I don’t want this workshop to end! I’ve been hanging on every

word and everything is so interesting and so motivating.’ 2014 Participant

Dave is the co-founder and CEO of Education Changemakers, and as one of Australia’s most awarded educators has vast experience leading education change at the school, regional and national level. An expert in the development of education leaders, with a proven track record at the highest levels, Dave matches a powerful grasp on grassroots realities with an in-depth system level thinking skills. Dave’s education leadership journey began as a principal of an Australian school when he was only 24, and throughout his twenties he built a powerful reputation as a leader who could achieve strong outcomes across a range of education contexts. During this period he was named as the Young Australian of the Year (WA) and Young Leader of the Year (WA), and was also widely profiled for his leadership of the highly challenging Halls Creek District High School. Following this role, he was appointed as the Director of the Barkly region, Australia’s largest education jurisdiction. Dave speaks and works with thousands of educators and system leaders globally each year with groups including AITSL, ACEL, Catholic Education Australia, Microsoft as well as advising the Prime Minister and Cabinet of Australia.

Dave Faulkner Chief Executive Officer

Facilitators

Summer Howard Director of LearningSummer is the Director of Learning at Education Changemakers is one of Australia’s most connected education influencers is boldly emerging as a powerful and positively disruptive new voice in the sector. Summer brings expert knowledge in design thinking, middle years schooling and girl’s education, grounded in extensive experience teaching in some of Australia’s most elite private schools.

Known to many on twitter as @edusum, she has a deep passion for unleashing and spreading teacher led innovations and is heavily engaged in Australia’s education startup scene. Following eight years of senior teaching experience at PLC Sydney, Ravenswood School for Girls, Knox Grammar School and Anastasis Academy, Summer taught Master of Teaching units at Sydney University before being appointed as the Senior Project Officer for AITSL, leading on the Learning Frontiers Program. Summer is also the driving force behind the EC conference series (www.ec15.org) and was one of the founders of Teach Meet Sydney. She holds a Masters degree from Macquarie University and was the winner of the Paul Harris Fellowship for Service to Girls Education.

Aaron is the co-founder and Director of Innovation of Education Changemakers, and brings the radical thinking element to EC that helps us to stand out from other players in the global professional learning landscape. His ability to draw upon out of the box ideas and challenge education audiences to trial new concepts is globally recognised and is well illustrated in EC’s recently published book ‘Edupreneur: Unleashing teacher led innovation in schools’ of which Aaron was the lead author.

Aaron draws upon lessons from a diverse career that has seen him serve for seven years as a decorated Australian military officer, run a secondary school for street-children in a Tanzanian slum, run an orphanage in Kenya, and graduate from three Masters degrees in strategy, international relations and development, with the third, from Cambridge University. Aaron is the co-founder and former CEO of Spark* International, an organisation that has accelerated 150 high impact entrepreneurs across four countries who have dramatically changed the lives of more than 50,000 people living in poverty in Africa and the Pacific. Aaron also serves as the Chief Impact Officer for YGAP. Aaron has spoken with audiences including TED, Do Lectures, AITSL, Microsoft, ACEL, HSBC, PWC and Sankalp.

Facilitators

Aaron Tait Director of Innovation

Louka Parry Director of Programs

Louka is the Director of Programs at Education Changemakers and is one of Australia’s most exciting emerging education thinkers and doers, with a track record of leading dramatic improvements in challenging school settings. He brings expert knowledge in school leadership, new teacher support and organisational culture to the EC crew.

Louka represents the new generation of education leaders as an individual who has traveled to every continent, learned five languages fluently (including the Indigenous Australian languages Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara), graduated with Masters degrees in education, (studying one of them under John Hattie at Melbourne University) and studied at Harvard University all before he was thirty. Louka has matched these achievements with six years of experience as a teacher, and being promoted to Principal at only 27 years old. In 2012 Louka was named the South Australian Inspirational Public Secondary Teacher of the Year 2012.

Education Changemakers is committed to programs that are not only of the highest quality but great

value to schools. Over the two years of the ECCB program, participants get the exceptional value of

a comprehensive professional learning program with a well balanced blended learning approach

of face-to-face workshops, ongoing coaching and support and online, highly engaging professional

learning communities.

The total investment for aspiring leaders is $1,870 +GST per participant for the full two years of the

program.

The total investment for beginning teachers is $1,470 +GST per participant for the full two years of

the program.

For a school to nominate a beginning teacher and aspiring leader the total cost for both participants

for the full two years of the program is $3,340 + GST.

Other expenses:

1. EC covers all of the cost of the travel and accommodation of their facilitators as well as stationary

and equipment required for the face to face workshops and the online community.

2. Venue hire and catering for face-to-face workshops as well as any teacher release, accommodation

and associated expenses for participants needs to be covered by schools. The venue and catering

will be decided after applications are received depending on which schools are participating.

Invoicing for this separate component will come from the Ultimo office to schools and will be kept to

a minimum. The maximum cost for this will be $110 per participant per day of each workshop.

Investment

To ensure the program best meets the needs of schools we are proposing two alternatives sets of

dates. If there are sufficient applications we will look at running two programs, one that will commence

in Term Three, 2015 and the other to commence in Term One, 2016. Applicants can selected their

preferred start date on the application form out of the following two options.

Option One - 2015 Start

Aspiring Leader Workshops Dates:

Workshop One: 10th to 12th August, 2015

Workshop Two: 4th to 6th November, 2015

Workshop Three: 1st and 2nd March, 2016

Beginning Teacher Workshop Dates:

Workshop One: 11th and 12th August, 2015

Workshop Two: 5th and 6th November, 2015

Workshop Three: 3rd and 4th March, 2016

Option Two - 2016 Start

Aspiring Leader Workshops Dates:

Workshop One: 24th to 26th February, 2016

Workshop Two: 2nd to 4th May, 2016

Workshop Three: 13th and 14th October, 2016

Beginning Teacher Workshop Dates:

Workshop One: 25th and 26th February, 2016

Workshop Two: 3rd and 4th May, 2016

Workshop Three: 13th and 14th October, 2016

Workshop Dates

Once discussing with their principal teams (one beginning teacher and one aspiring leaders) are

encouraged to apply as a team through our online application which can be accessed here:

http://fluidsurveys.com/s/NSWECCB/

Applications close on the 5th of June, 2015 so we are encouraging all interested participants to get

in early, as numbers are limited.

If you have any questions regarding the program do not hesitate to get in contact with our National

Director of Programs, Louka Parry, at louka@educationchangemakers.com or on 0401641776.

How To Apply

Appendix

The Early Career Capacity Building Program

Component One

ASPIRING LEADER (MENTOR) SPECIFIC TRAINING

The Aspiring Leader and Mentor Training component will be a tailor made program that integrates

both the building of the participants’ capacity across leadership capabilities as well as a mentoring

focus. It will consist of five days of face-to-face workshops facilitated by two experienced EC

facilitators. It will also include ongoing and unlimited coaching for the participants and the curation

of an online Professional Learning Community throug MYed. The training will be based on ‘the

Changemaker Program’ which has a proven track record of building the capacity of aspiring leaders

and will also include specific mentor training.

The mentor specific training infused across the mentor specific workshops will include:

a. The ‘how to’ of building an effective rapport and professional working relationship with beginning

teachers.

b. Understanding and unpacking the various phases and elements for beginning teachers to move

from initial employment to consolidation of proficiency.

c. Learning the practicalities and hard skills of instructional mentoring including observation,

feedback and modeling in order to create an engaging, supportive and effective mentoring

relationship.

d. Creating a framework and clear action plan, with specific measurable goals, to work alongside

beginning teachers throughout the year.

e. Building a strong professional learning community between the mentors to enable the collective

genius of the high quality teachers and mentors in the group to unleash and scale best practice.

Component One

Broad Scope of the Aspiring Leaders Workshops

Workshop One: Think Big, Act Small

The aspiring leaders will start by looking at the possibilities for making change happen with examples

from across the globe in education and other sectors. They will then personalise this learning and

apply it to developing their own “Theory of Change” and change project, with clear actions for

implementation at the conclusion of this workshop. This will include a focus on leading change as

well as mentoring.

Workshop Two: Making it Happen

Aspiring leaders will work together to identify challenges that they have experienced when trying

to implement the actions in their change projects and with the mentoring of beginning teachers.

They will then work on leadership strategies and tools that will assist them to overcome their context

specific challenges and improve the impact of their change projects to support student learning.

Workshop Three: Reflect, Share and Celebrate

Participants will reflect on their leadership journey throughout the course and share their learning

with the group. Peer-coaching occurs as they teach others what they have learned. They will also

continue to refine their ideas, strategies and actions, learning how to take the successful elements

of their projects to scale. Participants will also celebrate their learning and impact with other

participants.

Component Two

BEGINNING TEACHER SPECIFIC TRAINING

The Beginning Teacher Training component will be a tailor made program that will focus on

building skills that assist teachers to improve their capacity as effective instructional leaders in

their classrooms. The program component of this part of the strategy will consist of 3 days of face-

to-face workshops facilitated by two experienced EC facilitators with up to 50 beginning teacher

participants. It will also include ongoing and unlimited coaching for the participants and the curation

of online professional learning community.

Workshop One: Initiate & Illuminate

This workshop is about building the tribe, building the narrative of the professional attributes of

the group and aligning purpose, skills and outcomes. We will set the conditions for effective and

affective mentorship. Foci will include (but are not limited to) a) building a beginning teacher toolkit,

b) mindsets and dispositions for feedback & observation, c) reflection and dialogue for professional

conversations, and d) managing your own professional life including a support structure for personal

well-being.

Workshop Two: Accelerate and Build

This workshop is about beginning teachers stepping into their own professional agency and

developing a strong practice from what they have tested in the combined session. Beginning

teachers will increase their capacity to deliver high impact practices through evidence based tools

and methodologies. This will include (but is not limited to) a) becoming a reflective practitioner

informed by data, feedback & observation, b) user centered design to create ideas that scale, and c)

adding to your toolkit of strategies for managing your professional life through prioritisation.

Component Two

BEGINNING TEACHER SPECIFIC TRAINING

Workshop Three: Celebrate & Appreciate

This workshop is about reflecting on distance traveled as a beginning teacher, sharing success and

leveraging the collective genius of progress. This will include (but is not limited to):

a) ‘What is your case study?’ (tapping into the power of narrative and storytelling).

b) ‘Where to next?’ (scalability of tools and strategies as a developmental approach).

c) Strength-based approaches (soar and score).

d) Being a changemaker (an innovator’s mindset).

Component Three

COMBINED (BEGINNING TEACHERS AND MENTORS) SPECIFIC TRAINING

The aspiring leaders (mentors) and beginning teachers will combine for three days of face-to-face

workshops throughout the first year of the program. This component will build the professional

learning community and harness the collective genius of the aspiring leaders and the beginning

teachers.

Workshop One: Create and Test

This workshop strengthens the wider tribe of both groups, building the collaborative capacity. We

will be testing the evidence, examining the conditions and the group’s hunches about what works

in effective mentorship programs. This will include (but is not limited to):

a) Mindsets for feedback & observation.

b) Leading and honing ideation.

c) Strategies for managing your professional life and personal well-being.

Workshop Two: Evaluate & Iterate

This workshop is about knowing your impact, understanding and evidencing your practice. You will

increase your capacity to deliver high impact practices through tested tools and methodologies.

This will include (but is not limited to):

a) How do you know? - Becoming a data-driven, reflective practitioner.

b) When do you call it? Exemplars of high impact practice.

c) Methods for evaluating impact.

d) Combining practices to amplify impact.

Component Three

Workshop Three: Elevate & Re-create

This workshop is amplifying the practices developed, tested and honed throughout the journey. The

outputs of the profession should be public, for the benefit of learners everywhere. Understanding

how you go about articulating and sharing your professional practice is a critical part of your

leadership growth and development. This will include (but is not limited to):

a) Strategies for diffusing high impact practice.

b) Leading practice.

c) Go again…what is your next idea? How might you mobilise a network around creation of next

practice, while elevating exemplars of best practice emergent from your journey?