Data Wise Leadership Institute: Australia

Overview

Making sense of data is critical, but so too is the process for ensuring this data impacts teaching and learning. Data Wise provides the tools and protocols to enable you and your colleagues to engage in an effective collaborative process around data.

The Data Wise Improvement Process provides a clear, carefully tested blueprint that teachers, school leaders, and system-level leaders can use to examine a wide range of data as the catalyst for conversations that drive instructional improvement. The Data Wise Leadership Institute prepares teams to plan a thoughtful launch of this inquiry process in their own settings.

Program Details

During this intensive week at the Bastow Institute of Educational Leadership, your school will work with a dedicated facilitator and peers from diverse settings who are similarly committed to learning how to lead collaborative inquiry. The intensive course will get your team energised as you learn the Data Wise process and work on developing three essential habits: shared commitment to action, intentional collaboration, and a relentless focus on evidence.

We strongly recommend that teams also enrol in the Data Wise in Action Program, where you will receive four months of continued support from a dedicated Data Wise coach as you implement the inquiry process in your own school. Teams applying for both programs will be given preference during the admissions process and participants in the leadership institute receive a discount for the Data Wise In Action Program in the same calendar year.

Objectives

• Explore how the Data Wise Improvement Process brings coherence to the core work of schools
• Cultivate the habits of mind that improve team effectiveness and foster a supportive culture of improvement
• Practice using a series of inquiry protocols that you can bring back to your faculty
• Create a plan for integrating the Data Wise Improvement Process into your daily work

Who Should Attend

• Designed for school teams and system-level teams of three or more people
• School teams must comprise a principal, at least one teacher, and one or more other educators in leadership roles
• System-level teams must include a manager or school principal, and at least two others in system-level roles

Bastow Scholarships

Bastow has a number of scholarships available for staff from Victorian government schools that have high levels of disadvantage or are rural or remote. Click here for more information or to apply for the scholarship.

Fees & Policies

The comprehensive tuition includes all instructional materials and refreshments. Participants receive a certificate of participation and a letter confirming clock hours of instruction. Payment or a purchase order must be received within 30 days of program acceptance, or upon receipt of the invoice if acceptance is within 30 days prior to the start of the program. Click here for more information on payment and financial aid.

Please click here for more information on our on-campus and online refund and withdrawal policies.

The Harvard Graduate School of Education reserves the right to change faculty or cancel programs at its discretion. In the unlikely event of program changes, the school is not responsible for non-refundable travel arrangements or other planning expenses incurred.