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Set yourself up for success as a leader
This series of courses has been designed to support both current and aspiring early childhood leaders to strengthen their leadership skills and build their capacity to lead teams, and to undertake improvement journeys in their contexts of practice. Through multimedia resources and carefully designed exercises, you will gain insight into yourself as a leader and different styles of leadership and learn how to tap into your own strengths and those of people around you to lead with integrity, confidence, and vision.
The courses have been designed to facilitate participants to undertake a coherent leadership journey, with each course building on the learning of the previous course. However, it is also possible to take individual courses. You will start each course as part of a cohort at specific times during 2024-25.
Each course includes membership of a Professional Learning Community (PLC)
Each course in our Leadership series offers the opportunity to join a Leaders’ Professional Learning Community (PLC). The PLCs are designed to deepen your learning and enhance your experience of the course by providing opportunities to engage with and learn alongside other leaders in a small-group setting. They involve four online meetings with the other members of the PLC and four text-based discussions for sharing ideas. Each week a different person in the PLC will take the lead in facilitating the group, with guidance provided for this.
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What you’ll learn by taking these courses
Each course is divided into a number of parts, with each part designed to take about a week to work through, although participants are free to work at their own pace.
Leadership 1: Leading Authentically
This course focuses on leaders as individuals and helps you to learn about a repertoire of leadership styles identified in research to creatively tailor a leadership style for your own contexts, people, and purposes. You will be supported to develop a philosophy for your personal leadership, to determine the kind of leader you want to be and the values that are important to you, and then to cultivate a set of actions and behaviours which help you to realise this leadership in practice.
COHORT STARTED FEBRUARY 2024 – UNDER WAY
Leadership 2: Leading People & Teams
Leading people and teams lies at the core of leadership, and the ability of leaders to effectively communicate, engage, support, and empower those around them is critical. This course explores a range of techniques that leaders can use to grow excellence in people and teams, including how to productively approach conflict and engage in challenging conversations.
COHORT STARTS MAY 6 2024
Leadership 3: Leading Partnerships & Collaborations
Early childhood leaders must work in partnership with a wide range of stakeholders including other educators, management, parents and whānau, support services, primary schools and community groups. This course explores the range of collaborations and partnerships in which early childhood leaders are engaged and how these can be strengthened and supported to enhance teaching and leadership practice.
COHORT STARTS JULY 29 2024
Leadership 4: Leading Curriculum, Pedagogy & Innovation
This course explores leadership practices for strategy development and improvement journeys in early childhood settings. Participants will explore what it means to be the leader of curriculum and pedagogy in their centre, and will build the knowledge and practical skillset to be able to do this effectively. A particular focus will be on the high impact activities that contribute to improvement in early childhood practice and pedagogy, and the consideration of how these connect to the unique context of a leader’s own environment.
COHORT STARTS OCTOBER 14 2024
Leadership 5: Leading Improvement
This course offers a unique exploration of strategic approaches to leadership and models for improvement, and focuses on leading inquiry and building professional learning communities. Participants will be supported to understand the important features of leading change and improvement, and successfully implement a change and improvement process in one’s own centre.
COHORT STARTS FEBRUARY 2025
FIRST COURSE STARTS FEBRUARY 19 2024
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Enrolment instructions
1. Select your enrolment requirements below carefully, especially if you are enrolling a group.
2. You can choose to pay via invoice or by credit card.
3. Once enrolled, you’ll find the course on your Account page. You will also receive an email welcoming you to the course.
Group enrolments
Enrolling as a group offers you great savings, and enables teachers to share their learning journeys and centres to collectively make changes in their practice based on their learning. Each teacher receives their own log in, linked to their email address, and can complete the course in their own time, on their own computer or tablet.
Pricing
- 1 teacher: NZ$330.00
- 2-10 teachers: SAVE 15% (NZ$280.50pp)
- 11-25 teachers: SAVE 20% (NZ$264.00pp)
- 26+ teachers: SAVE 25% (NZ$247.50pp)
- Please note: Prices are subject to 15% GST (local sales tax). Discounts only apply to group enrolments made in one transaction, and cannot be applied retrospectively if your group size increases.
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- Lifetime access* to 5 courses
- Online discussion forums
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- Lifetime access* to 5 courses
- Online discussion forums
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- Online discussion forums
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