Professional Learning

Overview: This program supports participants to  make meaningful change within a collaborative, collective learning  environment.   

Participants will lead an improvement initiative within their school and build leadership capacity and develop skills and confidence as leaders.

An optional component for participants

is the opportunity to complete 4 units of competency of the Diploma of Leadership and Management.

AITSL Standards: 1,5,6

Contact: Rachel Boyce

 Registration Closes 29 January 2026  

Overview: This program supports participants to  make meaningful change within a collaborative, collective learning  environment.   

Participants will lead an improvement initiative within their school and build leadership capacity and develop skills and confidence as leaders.

An optional component for participants

is the opportunity to complete 4 units of competency of the Diploma of Leadership and Management.

AITSL Standards: 1,5,6  

Contact: Rachel Boyce

Registration Closes 29 January 2026

Join school leaders and educators to unlock practical strategies that embed whole-school wellbeing, focusing on sustainable change, measurable outcomes, and creating lasting impact across school culture, policy, and daily practice for children and young people, staff, and the wider school community. 

Overview: This professional learning masterclass series is designed for school leaders, educators, wellbeing leaders and teams committed to creating lasting, whole-school change. 

Across a series of four interactive sessions, participants will engage with the Be You Framework and evidence-informed strategies to embed wellbeing into every layer of school life – from culture and leadership to policies and classroom practice. 

Each session will focus on a key aspect of whole school wellbeing (TBA), led by experts from headspace National and facilitated by the Be You team.

Focusing on sustainable implementation and measurable impact, the series will support schools to build inclusive environments where children, young people  and staff can thrive. 

By registering for this series, you are committing to attend the following sessions:

• Session 1) 2 March 2026 - Self Harm & Attempts in School Settings
•  Session 2) 25 May 2026 - Self & Co-regulation
•  Session 3) 24 August 2026 - Psychological Safety & Educator Wellbeing
• Session 4) 16 November 2026 Critical Incident Support Including postvention & Responses in Primary Schools

AITSL Standards: 1.1, 1.2, 3.7, 4.1, 4.4, 6.1, 6.2, 7.3, and 7.4.

Contact: Michele Oliphant

 Registration Closes 23 February 2026

Overview: By joining this pilot program your school will receive support to develop the capabilities of middle leaders and implement the Standards.   

Middle Leaders nominated from your school will be invited to attend a one-day face-to-face workshop at the start of the pilot and will gain access to an online self-reflection tool and up to five optional one-hour online workshops across the 12-month pilot to explore key, high-impact concepts which underpin the Standards.

AITLS Middle Leader Standards 1,5,6  

Contact: Rachel Boyce

Registration Closes 29 January 2026

Overview: Designed to support all AISSA and AISNT schools to bring whole-school Consent & Respectful Relationship Education (CRRE) to life. 

This introduction session shows what high quality whole-school CRRE looks like, core legal moral and ethical obligations and strategies to audit current practice. 

AITSL Standards: 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 2.1, 2.2, 3.2, 3.4, 3.6, 3.7, 4.1, 4.3, 4.4, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 7.1, 7.2 and 7.3

Contact: Michele Oliphant

Registration Closes 12 February 2026

Overview: Half day workshop outlining the NT TRB accreditation requirements  with ongoing support offered throughout the year in creating the Proficient Teacher Portfolio.

AITSL Standards: 6.1; 6.2; 6.3  

Contact: Rachel Boyce

Registration Closes 5 February 2026

Overview: This program aims to strengthen knowledge, skills and understanding of participants that work with autistic students. 

It consists of pre-workshop andpost-workshop online learning activities and two in-person workshop days.

AITSL Standards: 1.3; 1.5; 1.6; 3.1; 3.5; 4.1; 4.4  

Contact: Rachel Boyce

Overview: Half day workshop outlining the NT TRB accreditation requirements  with ongoing support offered throughout the year in creating the Proficient Teacher Portfolio.

AITSL Standards: 6.1; 6.2; 6.3  

Contact: Rachel Boyce

Registration Closes 5 February 2026

Overview: Walking in Two Worlds has been designed to support long-term employment retention for First Nations people. 

The training helps First Nations employees to learn to ‘walk in two worlds’ by examining cultural difference, learning why cultures organise the world the way that they do, and how difference cultural approaches can be managed, using practical examples and instructive role-playing.   

Participants learn how to apply self-reflection tools to better understand an individual cultural perspective, and develop skills and strategies to work more effectively in cross-cultural contexts.

Contact: Ian Smith

Registration Closes 27 February 2026 

Overview: This program seeks to integrate a range of key leadership messages through an interactive approach, which allows ideas to be put into action and encourage young people to become impactful leaders.

Contact: Rachel Boyce

Registration Closes 19 March 2026

Overview: The one day workshop will be a deep dive into the popular adaptive leadership framework as taught by Dean Williams and Ron Heifetz at Harvard Kennedy School. 

Dean Williams will present the master class, and a comprehensive competency model for the exercise of adaptive leadership.

Contact: Rachel Boyce

Day 1) Leader as Self - Remote Learning Environment 

This training focuses on the foundational work of a Leader in understanding themselves and developing a secure base for their team to work from. Strategies reflect on self and one’s own Leadership style before applying this in practice. 

It covers the underpinning elements of the application of trauma-informed principles and created and understanding secure base, along with and attachment dynamics. 

Day 2) Organisational Practice - Face-to-face learning environment

This training program builds on “Self as Leader” and the Trauma Responsive Leadership Framework. 

This program takes a wider lens to start to explore what it means to have a trauma-informed culture, the elements we need to consider  when providing trauma-sensitive environments for our clients and staff, and what wellbeing means in the context of providing support to others.

Contact: Ian Smith

Registration Closes 1 March 2026

Overview: The Youth Mental Health First Aid course teaches participants how to provide initial support to a young person (aged 12–18) who may be experiencing a mental health problem or mental health crisis, until professional help is received, or the crisis resolves.

AITSL Standards: 4.4; 6.2; 7.4  

Contact: Rachel Boyce

Registration Closes 23 April 2026 

Overview: Designed to support all AISSA and AISNT schools to bring whole-school Consent & Respectful Relationship Education (CRRE) to life. 

This session engages staff, students and community through providing voice and empowerment, contextualising an approach that is relevant and culturally responsive to diverse communities.  

AITSL Standards: 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 2.1, 2.2, 3.2, 3.4, 3.6, 3.7, 4.1, 4.3, 4.4, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 7.1, 7.2 and 7.3

Contact: Michele Oliphant

Registration Closes 28 May 2026 

Overview: Designed to support all AISSA and AISNT schools to bring whole-school Consent & Respectful Relationship Education (CRRE) to life. 

This session focuses on Teaching & Learning - curriculum alignment, program review and selection, professional learning, and scope and sequencing.

Participants will learn how to apply self- reflection tools to better understand an individual cultural perspective, and develop skills and strategies to work more effectively in cross-cultural contexts.

AITSL Standards: 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 2.1, 2.2, 3.2, 3.4, 3.6, 3.7, 4.1, 4.3, 4.4, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 7.1, 7.2 and 7.3

Contact: Michele Oliphant

Registration Closes 11 August 2026

Overview: Equips adults who teach, care for or support young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, with the knowledge, skills, and confidence to recognise, understand and respond to a young person who may be experiencing a mental health problem or mental health crisis.

AITSL Standards: 1.4, 4.4; 6.2; 7.4  

Contact: Rachel Boyce

Registration Closes 30 July 2026  

Overview: Walking in Two Worlds has been designed to support long-term employment retention for First Nations people. 

The training helps First Nations employees to learn to ‘walk in two worlds’ by examining cultural difference, learning why cultures organise the world the way that they do, and how difference cultural approaches can be managed, using practical examples and instructive role-playing.   

Participants learn how to apply self-reflection tools to better understand an individual cultural perspective, and develop skills and strategies to work more effectively in cross-cultural contexts.

Contact: Ian Smith

Registration Closes 14 September 2026  

Overview: Designed to support all AISSA and AISNT schools to bring whole-school Consent & Respectful Relationship Education (CRRE) to life. 

This session builds confidence in analysing effectiveness, measuring progress and demonstrates impact across the schooling community. 

AITSL Standards:  1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 2.1, 2.2, 3.2, 3.4, 3.6, 3.7, 4.1, 4.3, 4.4, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 7.1, 7.2 and 7.3

Contact: Michele Oliphant

Registration Closes 15 October 2026