Deadline: 20-Dec-22
Applications are now open for the Teach For Australia’s Future Leaders Program (FLP), a one-year professional learning opportunity that develops the next generation of regional and remote school leaders’ to lead toward educational equity.
Aims
- The program supports educators in building the knowledge, skills, and capabilities needed to be effective school leaders and help all students thrive.
- The FLP recognises that educators in Remote, Rural, and Regional (RRR) schools face unique challenges, including limited access to support services and staff attraction and retention difficulties.
- While acknowledging these challenges, the FLP also recognises and celebrates the strength and resilience of these communities and the valuable insights and knowledge they offer to the education system as a whole.
- The Future Leaders Program delivers professional learning designed to meet participants at their point of need and build the knowledge, skills, and leadership practices crucial to school leadership in remote and regional schools,
- The program is specifically designed for regional and remote educators, supporting them to build on their strengths and develop as impactful leaders within their communities.
Domains
- The FLP is underpinned by an evidence-based theory of leadership, which includes five leadership domains. Your learning throughout the program will be grounded in these five domains as you develop and practice the mindsets, skills, and capabilities of effective leadership.
- Self Leadership: Leaders demonstrate self-awareness and awareness of others.
- Technical Expertise: Leaders understand the importance of technical expertise and acknowledge that effectiveness in their role and context is critical for leadership development.
- Relational Leadership: Leaders demonstrate a deep cultural understanding of First Nations’ knowledge, principles, perspectives, and ways of being.
- Building Relationships and Understanding Influence: Leaders understand the importance of building collegial relationships, listening, and understanding the perspectives of others.
- Systems Thinking: Leaders demonstrate their ability to lift their gaze beyond their classroom and view systems as a whole.
Benefits
- To support learning across the above domains, the program offers an environment with:
- Contextualised Support: Rigorous, job-embedded, and applied learning opportunities (both in person and virtually) aligned to your current role and responsibilities.
- Individualised 1-1 Coaching: Personalised support from an experienced leadership coach, building on your unique strengths and aspirations.
- Peer Network: Build connections with others working in similar contexts, with opportunities to collaborate and learn together throughout the program and beyond.
- Future Leaders Program supports schools and participants by:
- Building leadership capacity amongst their staff and fostering culturally safe and inclusive learning environments for all students.
- Connecting participants to a network of other like-minded educators to share ideas and best practices across regional and remote education settings.
- Supporting participants to build skills in leading initiatives, developing their capacity to influence, and setting goals that align with their school and community.
- Participants will receive tools and resources that can be shared across their school, alongside the support of an experienced leadership coach, to reinforce learning, challenge mindsets, and help drive positive student experiences and equitable outcomes.
- For the 2023 Cohort, a full scholarship will be offered to all participants; schools will be offered stipends to allow for time release.
- Schools are asked to support each participant with up to two days’ time release over the course of the program (total across the one-year program). The nine days of intensive program workshops will be conducted mainly during school holidays to minimise participants’ time out of school.
Location
The program is currently open to educators in outer regional, remote and very remote schools in:
- Western Australia – Government and Catholic Sector
- Northern Territory – Government and Catholic Sector
- Queensland – Catholic Sector
- New South Wales – Catholic Sector
Eligibility Criteria
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander educators are strongly encouraged to apply.
- To be eligible, you must be a K-12 educator who:
- Has at least two years of teaching experience;
- Works in a rural, regional, or remote school in one of their partner jurisdictions, with an ICSEA below 1000; and
- Aspires towards a school leadership role or
- Is in a position of leadership and is seeking to grow your skills.
- If you have finished the Teach For Australia Leadership Development Program, you are also eligible for the program.
For more information, visit Teach For Australia.