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Whatever your role or career stage, our leadership programs will prepare you for the challenges ahead.

Explore the opportunities for Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the classroom and understand its implications. Develop your understanding of how it can be used safely in schools to create engaging and meaningful learning experiences.

Explore how to adopt a mindset that will enable you to recognise the strengths that all students and families bring to an educational setting. Develop effective ways to enhance student engagement and well-being, attendance, and academic performance.

This program will open you up to the opportunities available to educational leaders, navigating the Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous (VUCA) global environment we are working in as part of a broader community.

The Instructional Leadership Certificate (ILC) will enable you to build your skills so as to model effective practice to lead other teacher learners.

A collection of short webinars that connect Victorian educators to expert local and global perspectives on education and leadership

Raising the capability, confidence and status of teachers.

This program provides school leaders with the fundamental knowledge and skills needed to be competent and confident in preventing, working with, and resolving conflicts in the education community.

Women in Leadership: Build your capability and influence provides you with the expert guidance, skills and inspiration to reach your full potential as an impactful leader.

The Academy is hosting information sessions for teachers and principals, about the 2025 Teaching Excellence Program (TEP).

Understanding the Science of Learning and Leading will help you to understand the brain’s learning processes and how this can enhance your school’s learning environments, instructional models, and your leadership capability.

Leading Quality Conversations is designed to develop the high-level communication skillset required by educational leaders that will enhance their interpersonal effectiveness, collaboration and problem solving capabilities, while building trust with peers. 

Inspire and transform your instructional leadership to have greater impact on teaching, learning and wellbeing.   

Take a guided exploration through education technologies and develop a critical lens to inform decision making in your school.

Build a culture of shared responsibility for the health, safety and wellbeing of staff, students, and the school community.

Numeracy Local Leaders will strengthen your pedagogical content knowledge, application of numeracy principles and methodologies, and support you to build strategies to lead numeracy improvement.

Support a system-wide approach to numeracy professional learning as a master trainer.

You will explore a comprehensive range of knowledge, leadership strategies, and tools at The Principals' Centre in Australia, specifically designed to empower Australian school leaders.

Clarity Learning Suite aims to develop your ability to increase student achievement and growth in an ongoing, sustainable way.

Access expert guidance to help you succeed in the assistant principal role.

Leading School Improvement will develop your understanding of the connectedness of schools, regions and system efforts towards school improvement.

Develop your skills to build on students' capabilities and interests, actively working with – rather than against – the physical, social and emotional needs of adolescents.  

This course will teach you how to better connect, communicate and influence to improve wellbeing, remain centred under pressure and project greater leadership confidence.

Connect: Assistant Principals is a comprehensive leadership program designed to build the skills of assistant principals.

Learn about the Victorian Aspiring Principal Assessment (VAPA). A range of information sessions and programs exist to support you in building your understanding of the VAPA.

Professional coaching that will challenge and support you to be a highly effective leader, and empower you to reach greater levels of performance.

The Inspire: Facilitator Training program is an opportunity to support emerging leaders in your local area by delivering Inspire: Local Leaders.

The Victorian Aspiring Principal Assessment (VAPA) is part of a system-wide approach to identify and prepare Victoria’s next generation of principals.

The Literacy Master Trainers program will provide you with the skills, knowledge and disposition you need to facilitate Literacy Local Leaders. 

Develop the capacity of your literacy leadership team and use the FISO improvement cycle to implement effective literacy improvement in your school.

Lead evidence-informed, whole school approaches to mathematics teaching and learning.

Increase your awareness of the capabilities and resources necessary to build a successful workforce plan and manage more effectively.

Build your expertise in using data to improve student outcomes and drive school improvement.

Build your technical capability in financial management and develop skills to effectively manage school finances.

Technical leadership and training in school asset management, with an emphasis on identifying and managing the key risks in a school.

Learn to manage legal risks in your school and to understand key legal concepts and obligations.

Make a transformational impact on your school or school culture to improve student outcomes.

Develop your capabilities as a transformative emerging teacher leader and build practical strategies to improve your effectiveness as a leader.

Provides assistance to first-time principals with the transition into their new role, and builds their capacity to be an effective leader.

The Create: Middle Leaders program equips you with the confidence and capabilities necessary to influence and lead improvement in classroom and pedagogical practices in your school. 

Develop the confidence, skills and professional knowledge to be thoroughly prepared for your first principal appointment.