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Create: Middle Leaders

Further your impact to lead school improvement and refine your leadership capabilities and confidence
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Impact: Emerging Leaders

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

Build your leadership capabilities to make a difference in your school and to succeed as a leader.
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Unlocking Potential: Principal Preparation

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

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

Connect is a comprehensive leadership program designed to build the skills of assistant principals in their first 5 years in the role.
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Victorian Aspiring Principal Assessment (VAPA)

The Victorian Aspiring Principal Assessment (VAPA) is part of a system-wide approach to identify and prepare Victoria’s next generation of principals.
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Women Leading in Education: Elevate your capability and influence

Elevate your capability and influence. Harness your strengths with expert guidance, skill development and inspiration to reach your full potential as an impactful leader.

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Finance Matters

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

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

Find out about job opportunities to support the programs and core services of the Academy.
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Principal Mentoring

Expand and enhance your leadership capability with the support of a principal mentor.
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VTLM 2.0: Teaching Practice Series

Explore the effective teaching strategies within the Victorian Teaching and Learning Model 2.0.
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Teacher tales: career journey and insights

2022 Teaching Excellence Program (TEP) alumni Jay Chew (Al-Taqwa College), Ben Jones (Bendigo South East 7-10 Secondary College) and Kendall Aglinskas (Assumption College) dive deep into their teaching journeys.
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2024 WISE Residential
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Lead from any level

Professional learning for aspiring and current educational leaders to build capacity, knowledge and skills at every career stage.
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The Workforce of Tomorrow Demands a New Mindset

In the new work order, it is predicted young people will have 17 jobs over 5 careers. Instead of focusing on a ‘dream job’, we should advise students to consider skills and capabilities that translate across a range of jobs, writes social entrepreneur Jan Owen.
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Teaching Excellence Program

Skilled teachers advance their capabilities and confidence in this Australian-first program.
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Inspire: Facilitator Training

The Inspire: Facilitator Training program is an opportunity to support emerging leaders in your local area by delivering Inspire.
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Teaching Excellence Program Alumni Network

The TEP Alumni Network is a values driven community of highly skilled teachers committed to staying connected and being lifelong learners.
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Victorian Aspiring Principal Assessment: Information Sessions

Attend an information session to learn about the Victorian Aspiring Principal Assessment (VAPA). If you are a VAPA participant, you can book into a portfolio preparation program.
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Meet Sandra Luitjes, Manager, Mildura Regional Centre

Meet Sandra Luitjes, Manager of the Academy's Mildura centre.
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Women in Leadership panel

Working together to create a more inclusive future for women and girls in leadership.
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Leading from the middle

Hosted by 2023 Academy Principal in Residence Greg Lacey, this episode features EC by Go1 CEO Dave Faulkner and learning designer and facilitator Glenn Solomons. In this episode Greg, Dave and Glenn cover all things middle leadership and the impact they can have as “the engine room of change in schools”. 
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Leading Self

How do we deepen those attributes that are most effective and leave the others behind to progress and strengthen your leadership?

In this recording, explore an appreciative inquiry process to help you reflect on how you lead others and identify how you can move forward in your career.
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Teacher Skills Gap analysis: key insights

In 2024, at the request of government, the Victorian Academy of Teaching and Leadership (Academy) undertook a Teacher Skills Gap analysis.
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Harvard Certificate in School Management and Leadership

Develop your school leadership skills and gain a formal qualification from Harvard Graduate School of Education.
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Rhys Doyle on working alongside the Academy

Rhys Doyle, principal of Kensington Community High School, has been working alongside the Academy for 10 years, 5 of which have been in the leadership space. Rhys has completed the Unlocking Potential program, as well as VAPA, which have helped him continue to better himself to be the best educator he can be.
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Victorian Aspiring Principal Assessment (VAPA) update

The Victorian Aspiring Principal Assessment (VAPA) has existed since 2017. As a result of government policy, meeting the VAPA requirements became a mandatory requirement for all Victorian Principals appointed in Victorian government schools from January 1, 2022.

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Our people

The Academy is guided by an independent board and a team of executive leaders, who set a clear vision for the strategic direction of the organisation.
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2024 Government Schools Principals Conference resources

Find and access recordings and presentations from the 2024 Government Schools Principals Conference.
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Meet Carol Roberts, Manager, Bairnsdale Regional Centre

Meet Carol Roberts, Manager of the Academy's Bairnsdale centre.
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Female representation in school leadership

CEO Dr Marcia Devlin AM reflects on the opportunities she has to increase female representation in school leadership positions through her role at the Academy.
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Academy Insights: Community Perceptions of Education and the Teaching Profession in Victoria

In late 2023, the Academy commissioned research to explore the perceptions of the Victorian public towards education and the teaching profession in Victoria.
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Neil Barker defines leadership as a lifelong learning journey

What are the fundamental skills for successful leadership in education?

In this podcast, Neil Barker discusses the value of leaders continuing their own learning journeys, the meaning of true collaboration, and the importance of a clear leadership vision.
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Our board
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Academy impact: lifting students’ English and maths, and teacher capability and leadership

To support educators in improving student outcomes in English and Mathematics, the Academy offers a suite of professional learning programs. These evidence-informed programs of effective professional learning build the capability of teachers and leaders to support improvements in literacy and numeracy instruction at the classroom, school-wide and system levels.
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2025 Government Schools Principals Conference resources

Find and access recordings and presentations from the 2025 Government Schools Principals Conference.
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Facilitator Training: Literacy Pedagogy and Practice

Learn to facilitate evidence-informed literacy pedagogical practices, aligned to the VTLM 2.0. Improve literacy outcomes and facilitate an impactful professional learning program.
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Facilitator Training: Numeracy Pedagogy and Practice

Learn to facilitate evidence-informed numeracy pedagogical practices, aligned to the VTLM 2.0. Improve numeracy outcomes and facilitate an impactful professional learning program.
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Coach Accreditation

Become an internationally accredited coach.
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Principals in Residence
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Our story and strategy

It is widely recognised that trained, highly skilled and supported educators have the single largest impact on the learning experience of our children.
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Academy Leadership Excellence Framework

The Academy Leadership Excellence Framework (ALEF) sets out the practices, capabilities and dispositions required for excellence at all levels of leadership.​ 
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TEP23 Artful Reflections

We asked some of our 2023 Teaching Excellence Program teachers to consider and express what it means to be a teacher. These artful reflections are an exploration of the role teachers play both in the classroom and our communities more broadly.

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Applications for Create: Middle Leaders
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Applications for Impact: Emerging Leaders
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Victorian Aspiring Principal Assessment Overview

The Victorian Aspiring Principal Assessment (VAPA) is part of a system-wide approach to identify and prepare Victoria’s future principals.
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Richard Gerver links leadership, passion and purpose in education

How can school leaders empower parents, students and staff to create sustained positive change?

In this podcast, Richard Gerver talks about creating the conditions for excellence and enthusiasm within school communities, and the sense of purpose and belonging he felt as a teacher that's never left him.
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With imagination and technology, anything is possible!

Throughout history, there have been many inventions that were embraced by some, while others were met with more scepticism. In our ever-evolving world, it is important for teachers to understand the implications of new technologies to enhance the learning experience for their students. Teaching Excellence Program Master Teacher Ange Tutty delves into imagination and the role of technology in education.
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