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Career pathways for teachers and leaders

Your roadmap to leadership excellence, influence and impact.
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Enhance your leadership, career and influence

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Our evidence-informed career pathway programs provide a roadmap to developing leadership excellence, enhancing your influence on school and system improvement and boosting your professional impact to improve student outcomes.

View programs and case studies tailored to your career aspirations:

  • Teachers and middle leaders
  • Middle leaders and assistant principals
  • New and experienced principals
  • Career pathway case studies.

Teachers and middle leaders

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Teaching Excellence Program

Connecting skilled teachers with like-minded colleagues to explore and implement evidence-informed practice to enhance student outcomes. 

  • 10 days in person over 12 months
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Inspire: Emerging Leaders

Start your school leadership journey. Explore leadership concepts, discover your strengths, and build foundational capabilities to pursue leadership roles.

  • 5 months
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Create: Middle Leaders

Build your confidence to lead school teams. Develop your leadership skills and ability to lead school improvement through evidence-informed practices.

  • 27 Jul
  • 6-7 months

Middle leaders and assistant principals

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Influence: Aspiring and New Assistant Principals

Step up to whole school strategic leadership. Develop your influence as an assistant principal to lead staff with high expectations for schoolwide improvement.

  • 6 months
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Unlocking Potential: Principal Preparation

Prepare for your first principalship. Learn the skills of leading a thriving school community, while developing your strong networks through a principal internship.

  • 9-12 months
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Victorian Aspiring Principal Assessment (VAPA)

Obtain your statement of readiness for principalship. Gain clear insights into how prepared you are for the role, guided by experienced former principals.

  • Minimum 5 weeks

New and experienced principals

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Evolve: New Principals

Transition into your role as a principal. Build networks as you learn from experienced leaders to develop your strategic, technical and people leadership skills.

  • 5-8 months
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Elevate: Experienced Principals

Energise and lead sustained school and system change. The Elevate: Experienced Principals suite of programs is facilitated by experts in their field, who will support you to drive improvement in your local school context.

  • Full program 6 days + coaching

Career pathway case studies

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Investing in sustainable leadership: Amanda’s pathway to becoming a principal

A passionate and energised leader, Amanda Williams is deeply driven by the belief that getting learning right from the outset is life-changing for young people.
Portrait: Tegan Knuckey, Assistant Principal of Balwyn High School
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Beyond classroom leadership: Tegan's path to assistant principal

Balwyn High School Assistant Principal, Tegan Knuckey, used strategic professional development and career pathways for teachers to grow her leadership skills, expand her network, and make a wider impact on education.
Portrait: Matt Cook, Assistant Principal of Albion North Primary School
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Matt's leadership path: PE teacher to assistant principal

Academy Alumni, Matt Cook, used professional learning programs to build confidence, grow his leadership skills, and progress from classroom teacher to aspiring principal.
Portrait: Danielle Heatley, Principal of Clyde Creek North Primary School
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A lifelong learner: Danielle's growth as a school leader

Academy alumni, Danielle Heatley, has built a career of impact by combining her love of lifelong learning with Academy leadership programs, from VAPA to Leading Quality Conversations.
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