Leadership
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Improve your leadership journey by exploring the future of school leadership in a rapidly evolving educational landscape. Gain insights into global trends and leading 21st century schools that deliver educational excellence while navigating critical challenges in workforce sustainability, system-wide change and digital innovation. Learn how to lead with clarity and confidence through uncertain times - balancing operational demands with a vision for the future of learning.
Benefits of attending
- Lead workforce renewal with clarity: discover effective strategies to attract, support and retain teaching talent while addressing systemic burnout and workforce shortages.
- Build resilience and wellbeing in leadership: equip yourself with practical tools to sustain performance, protect wellbeing, and foster a culture of care across your leadership team.
- Deliver meaningful change with strategic vision: master the leadership mindsets and change strategies required to cultivate innovation-ready school cultures and drive sustainable transformation.
- Advance equity, inclusion and student agency: explore proven frameworks that promote inclusive education, lift diverse student voices, and meet equity requirements.
- Drive school improvement with evidence: harness and utilise the power of data to inform curriculum decisions, track impact and lead improvement initiatives.
- Navigate digital transformation: learn how to strategically implement digital programs that enhance teaching and learning while aligning with long-term school priorities.
- Harness AI to enhance learning and leadership: understand how AI is reshaping classrooms and operations - from smart assessments to predictive analytics - and lead its ethical integration.
- Transform assessment for deeper impact: explore how adaptive tools and AI can support personalised, timely and meaningful student assessment practices that move beyond traditional models.
- Lead with humanity in the AI era: balance innovation with empathy by grounding your leadership in ethical, people-first approaches to technology integration and change.
- Connect with Australia’s most influential school leaders: collaborate with peers from every sector to exchange ideas, challenge assumptions and shape the future of Australian education together.
Who is it for?
- Principals/deputies/assistant principals
- Deans/directors/executive team
- Heads of school/heads of departments
- Middle leaders
- Lead teachers
- Curriculum authorities
- Heads of Government, Catholic and independent education departments
- Teacher training faculty heads and lecturers
Leadership, Wednesday 3 June 2026
Championing every learner: Leadership strategies for inclusion, innovation and high‑potential students
Fostering student leadership, agency and voice
Telling the story of your impact
The new education ecosystem and the disrupting factors that are reshaping it
Leadership, Thursday 4 June 2026
Students as partners: Leadership innovation in the education landscape
This session invites participants to reflect on the changing nature of leadership in schools and systems, exploring the award-winning work of the Learning Commission, with commission schools and colleges now in place across the Northern Territory, ACT and Tasmania representing over 35,000 learners. John and Jess will explore what innovation in leadership means in contemporary education, how research-informed practice is mobilised by leaders to drive improvement and the role of partnerships between policy makers, school leaders, educators and students in leading change.
Leading with curiosity and a mentoring way of being
Assessment reimagined: Charting the future for learners
Teacher retention: The importance of job crafting and career pathways
Contact us
Sponsorship Enquiries
Arron.Penman@terrapinn.com
Speaking Enquiries:
Elizabeth.Paterson@terrapinn.com
Marketing Enquiries:
Natalie.Mcclelland@terrapinn.com
Start-Up Enquiries
Joseph.Zeko@terrapinn.com
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