REGISTRATIONS OPEN
Final registrations for the upcoming New Zealand Contemporary Learning Tour. We have locked in an excellent itinerary that will see us engaging with Principals and teams from a wide range of excellent schools and lenses for learning together.
As we close in on the end of July we are needing to finalise numbers for this event so that we can lock in accommodation and other important event planning details. If you would like to attend or you would like to send some of your team then please arrange to register for places to our website. There are very reasonable flights currently available to book so we are going to be encouraging everyone to get onto these details as soon as possible.
Cost will be between $2700 and $3000 plus flights. As always we will balance having a worthwhile and quality experience with being as budget conscious as we can be. We are taking a small group so please ensure that you claim the spaces you require by registering asap.
https://www.luthedlearningtours.net/upcoming-tours
Highlights of the itinerary look like this:
Stonefields School
- How they successfully partner with parents in our post covid world. They will share their current community research project that is driving higher parent engagement in sincere and meaningful ways.
- Their improvement dashboard that allows Stonefields to measure what they value and make change based on that data.
- How they practically and strategically turn their vision into practice, embedding a culture of high performing teams and collective efficacy, creating collaboration that creates improved outcomes for learners.
The AGE School
- Principal Andrea Tong and her team are excited to share with us how students at their schools are immersed in taking action in the community and the community groups that they partner with to make this happen in meaningful ways.
- Andrea is also excited to share their new connection to a fully online school as they expand the pathways that they offer education as well as how they are partnering to investigate and evaluate how the use of AI in Education can benefit both educators and learners.
Albany Senior
- At Albany we will engage with Senior Secondary students who are getting ready to exhibit their personal project learning to the wider community. We will learn about how these projects drive student learning and pathways at Albany.
Te Ao Marama
- We will take a deep dive into building culture as we explore how the school partners with local Maori community- Whiria te tangata weaving the people together
- Clarity of Vision is key for this school and they will share how they induct new staff into school culture and their collaborative teaching and teaming model and values alignment
- Learner agency and learning through clearly defined modes of play
Mata Hui
- A school that engages nearby forest landscape as a partner in learning with all students engaging in one day a week of “Forest School” the learning on this day happens through the lens of democratic learning, where students are given agency to make choices about which aspect of the curriculum aligned activities that they will engage in for the day. The forest school program takes a wellbeing, science, arts and design focus with a strong focus on Adventure and play. Our day will be spent learning about and engaging in their forest program.
Workshop led by Maurie Abraham
- Maurie is the semi retired principal of Hobsonville Point School. He will be running a workshop for us to help identify your personal and school based why, to use that understanding to develop guiding principles that will shape your decision making. He will share a tool to enable us to run similar workshops with our own teams as well as a playbook to focus on growing learner agency through implementing pedagogical practice.
If you would like to chat through any queries or questions that you might have then please make contact.
Kimberley Powell
Learning Leader: Innovation
kimberley.powell@levnt.edu.au
