Saturday, June 5, 2021

2:50 PM - 3:35 PM

Room P4

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Educational leadership has experienced an influx of theoretical perspectives over the last decade to better inform sustainable transformations to lead and lift educational pedagogies and student outcomes. Leadership, however, can be influenced by the systems and culture with which it resides, regardless of the leader’s intentions or skill set. The cogs turn slowly within Australia’s educational systems, and although there is a plethora of research in different styles of leadership like autocratic, distributed and transactional as examples, Australian studies turn their attention to a humanistic “honeybee” approach and invite neuroscience into their methodology. Sustainable leadership embraces aspects of humanistic management in that it includes valuing people and considering the [organisation] as a contributor to social wellbeing. We will look at three examples - one Primary, one Secondary and one Aboriginal Secondary setting. The workshop will unpack the new Australian based DRIVEN model which lifts leadership into the social neuroscience domain and demonstrates how leaders who own and lead through resilience-based practices foster systemic innovation, increase staff engagement and create strong cultures of trust. Under these conditions, student learning anchors in agency, and teaching practices anchor in psychological safety. Resiliency therefore becomes a shared currency, and one which promotes prosocial investments , higher order learning and communities of excellence.

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