Explore how intentional leadership builds learning cultures where every child feels known, capable, and empowered in a program designed specifically for early education settings. Building a genuine culture of agency requires intentional leadership. It is a deliberate focus on the environments, relationships, routines, and practices that shape how every child experiences belonging, participation, and learning every day. This program gives you the tools, frameworks, and collaborative space to examine and strengthen your preschool's learning culture from the inside out. You’ll be challenged to think differently, explore ideas and test boundaries. Your learning will be practical, relevant to your context, and strengthened through ongoing reflection.
Program overview
Learning outcomes:
- examine how environments, relationships, routines and pedagogical practices shape learner's experiences of belonging, participation, engagement and learning
- draw on contemporary research to understand the conditions and practices that enable genuine agency
- gain practical strategies that you can apply to increase learner agency
- lead an inquiry-based approach to identify, trial and evaluate pedagogical practices within your site
- apply leadership practices that promote shared responsibility, collaborative inquiry, and reflective practice to sustain a culture of agency and continuous improvement within your context.
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Facilitator
Lisa Burman
South Australian educator, consultant, and author of Culture of Agency: Fostering Engagement, Empowerment, Identity and Belonging in the Early Years.
Program costs
Orbis pays for:
- program fees and material costs
- catered lunch, tea and coffee on programs days
- travel and accommodation for regional participants.
Preschools arrange and pay for TRTs to cover participants on program days as required.
How to enrol
Check availability and enrol in the Leading a Culture of Agency in Preschool program via plink.