Real Schools Academy delivers Professional Learning for educators, with and about best practice, while offering a totally flipped model that is flexible and caters for the diverse needs of your teachers and school.
Our six-week courses will change the way you work and the way you engage and benefit from professional learning.
Australian schools are great – but the task of sustaining the effort and thinking required to stay at the top comes with a price – the culture of your school, the stress levels of your people, the wellbeing of your students. A Real Schools Membership will provide you with all of the tools, tricks and motivation to keep your school healthy and ready for the next challenge.
Perhaps they got some formal conferencing going or perhaps they found a slightly less punitive pathway to handle student misconduct – and perhaps some staff members didn’t.
But most never quite enjoyed the full benefit of establishing and sustaining a truly restorative culture.
This program is for School Leaders have identified that, in their schools, there is some distance between the ambition for a strong, relational, productive School Culture and their current reality.
This program is for School Leaders who, frankly, are impatient for genuine implementation and have a bias for impact.
This program closes the gap between aspiration and current practice in a way that focuses on both building leadership capacity and the provision of practical tools and strategies.
Finally, your Teachers can participate in a long-term improvement cycle linked to genuine support, to your school’s strategic objectives and to the AITSL Teacher Standards.
Put simply, it’s a book designed for busy School Leaders and Executive Teams who would like to discuss more than operationals, administration and problems when they meet.
Working more like a journal than a book that you read, Adam has carefully designed 100 questions designed to refocus your attention on your School Culture – in a fun, productive and highly reflective way.
If I were to ask you why teachers continue to stand in authoritarian positions at the front of classrooms using the power of their title to force students into learning, would you have a good answer? Or could it be that the answer would be something along the lines of “Well, that’s just what teachers do?”…
Step away from the classroom for a minute and think about your favourite hobby. For me, my passion and hobbies are things like bushwalking, camping, gardening and sport. For you, it may be something different like knitting, cooking, craft or painting. Irrelevant of your hobby, just reflect on what it is that you enjoy about…
In case you haven’t heard, I’ve kicked off a series of FREE weekly video tutorials for Teachers and School Leaders in lieu of being able to escape Victoria and actually run some events for you. Last week’s was on “RP2.0 – The Next Phase of Restorative Practices” and to have more than 300 educators register was…
I’m going to be a little deep with you today. I hope that’s ok. After all, I’m a Victorian and the gloomy pallor of coronavirus descending on us has driven quite a few of us toward some deep contemplation recently. For me, I’ve also been driven toward some reading with more home time and less ferrying…
“The Real Schools webinars are always right on point. The combination of teacher focused topics and also leadership topics means that there’s something in each webinar for all of us. We are always accessing our people to the live webinars, but we also use them to address needs as they arise and to support our…
“The topics of the Real Schools webinars are so important. The art of teaching and the job of building a great school culture is a considerable challenge and our school takes that very seriously. Having a monthly support from a proven Principal targeting genuine need is of great benefit to us. We include the webinars in our improvement…
“Our school uses the Real Schools webinars all the time. Not only do we encourage our staff to get involved each month, but we re-visit them as part of our strategic plans to meet our commitments to our wellbeing and engagement targets. Having them available in the Member Section of the Real Schools website means…
“Adam spent valuable time with our staff ensuring all were not only challenged in their practice but equipped to engage with students on many varying levels. Adam’s commitment to his work is evident in the manner in which he ensures all key stakeholders within the community are informed and led through necessary processes. Adam was…
“Adam immediately won the respect of our teachers by his grounded, challenging and relational manner. Teachers easily related to his examples, drawn from work as a Principal in challenging school environments. Adam’s proven capacity to bring about sustainable cultural change and improve student learning speaks volumes. He was not afraid to confront habits and rituals…
“The impact of our Real Schools Partnership on staff at Rosebery Primary School has been immense. I notice staff showing a great deal of empathy, being alongside the child and working through the issues, being in contact with parents/carers regularly, checking in with students on a daily basis, running regular check in and check out…
