Beginning with a needs assessment, our team coordinates directly with YOU and with YOUR goals in mind, to develop a strategic plan, implementing, monitoring, and adjusting your plan, and recommending future steps.
You can choose to customize session via indivual or combinations of:
- 1-on-1 Leadership Support Sessions
- Workshops for Leaders or your Teachers
- Faculty or group seminars
All leadership support options include written recommendations for change. Additional options include:
Assessments of Instruction:
which can include reviews of assignments and assessments, on-site walkthroughs and observations, or other specialized choices.
School Rigor Assessments:
which include a comprehensive perspective of strengths and challenges within your school.
All sessions are customized to your individual needs OR you can also choose to customize one of Dr Blackburn's most popular sessions including:
The most successful schools are those that recognize that change is a constant, that improvement is a journey,
not an event.
Whether you’re a principal, curriculum coordinator, superintendent, or teacher leader, you’ve likely faced the challenge of school improvement. Improving a school, including student learning, is a complex task. It often feels like it’s difficult to stay on top of the issues let alone deal with the competing interests and priorities from every stakeholder group.
In this informative session, Dr Blackburn pulls from her 35 plus years of working with hundreds of schools around the world across every type of school community to provide clear implementation advice to assist in your school’s improvement via practical concepts that address the main concerns from leaders.
Addressing one of the most important and topical areas for ALL leaders.
In this new session we look at how school leaders shape their school and make it a place where teachers want to work, where they are committed to the success of students and where they see themselves remaining well into the future.
Recognizing the complex interaction between leadership and a school’s culture and climate; we’ll explore how to build respectful, collaborative relationships built on a foundation of trust. We will delve into motivation, but we will also look at a whole set of other issues that contribute to nurturing and sustaining teacher morale. Those efforts are often grounded in the regularities of school life, from the way to recruit teachers, welcome them to the staff, provide opportunities for involvement and professional growth, and build ownership in the success of everyone, but most importantly students.
Across Dr Blackburn’s over 35+ years in working with schools and leaders we are constantly asked:
“How do we move beyond the individual classroom to increase rigor in our classroom or district?
This is informative and results-driven sessions is a direct response to that common question.
With a straightforward and easy to implement focus Dr Blackburn presents a practical guide for leaders to improve the rigor across their school or district, while supporting you in navigating the journey you may face as a leader committed to increasing rigor across your school including:
- Creating a Culture for Improvement
- Raising the Level of Content
- Increasing Complexity
- Support and Scaffolding
- Opening Your Focus
- Raising Expectations
Truly making progress in school reform requires a comprehensive approach.
This globally renown session from Dr Blackburn that has delivered world-wide results, personally guides leaders through strategies that both address and deliver implementation tools for school reform and ultimately school/student success across each area that impacts progress, using the COMPASS model:
C CULTURE OF YOUR SCHOOL
O OWNERSHIP AND SHARED VISION
M MANAGING DATA
P PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
A ADVOCACY
S SHARED ACCOUNTABILITY
S STRUCTURES TO SUPPORT SUCCESS
the personal connection and trust Dr Blackburn establishes with each participant
The Australian Council for Educational Leaders [ACEL] has had the privilege of collaborating with Dr Blackburn over the past several years. This
continued collaboration has become a welcomed staple in the professional development journey of both our members plus the wider Australian educational community to who we engage with. This is due not only to the quality of research and instruction delivered, but equally the personal connection and trust Dr Blackburn establishes with each participant.
We feel fortunate to have found such a collaborative partner who works side by side with our organisation, who always goes over and above to
in our planning, and always going over and above to tailor to the needs of our members, and ultimately delver what feels like an ongoing
partnership between our two parties.
We look forward to working with Dr Blackburn in the coming years and building on this partnership to deliver professional development
across the Australian education sector
