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.
Teachers are now busily planning for a productive 2020. The kids are coming! This focus on lessons, curriculum, pedagogy and assessment is commendable, but is unseen by the hoardes of parents who think that you’re still on holidays. Parents eh. For all of the planning and professional expertise they remain as one of the…
We’re so excited to introduce you to Amy Green who is commencing just next week with us in a newly created role – Associate Director (Teacher Education). We could spend an inordinate amount of time writing in this newsletter our carefully crafted vision for supporting teachers as they commence their careers in an equally rewarding…
In schools, we often measure our success by numbers, data and results. This alone, isn’t enough and the recent bushfire devastation has reminded me of this. It doesn’t matter what part of our wonderful country you live in, there is no doubt you would be touched in some way by the horrific tragedy of the…
Support and connection. These are the hallmarks of The Inner Circle. Support, in that you’ll be walking the next 12-months of implementing Restorative Practices … with me. Having done this as a School Leader and Principal myself and with dozens of Australian schools since, I get the obstacles and the know the pathways around those…
“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…
