Educational Leadership Professional Development

Applied CPD That Strengthens Leadership in Your School

Leadership in digital education is about action, influence, and measurable impact — not just attending workshops or collecting resources. At the ICT in Education Teacher Academy, our membership provides a structured professional development pathway that ensures your learning translates directly into practice in your school.

Through the Technology Integrator’s Learning Journey to Transformation (TILJT), you progress via milestone-based stages that guide you to select content, apply it, reflect on outcomes, and record your impact. Every stage is designed to strengthen your leadership, mentoring, and instructional decision-making while working in real teaching contexts.

You begin by assessing your current skills and choosing the stage that fits your experience. Each milestone then directs you to workshops, lesson plans, expert presentations, and community discussions, with structured prompts for application, reflection, and evidence collection in the Membership Workbook.

As you move through the milestones, you apply strategies directly in classrooms and teams, reflect on what works, and document your influence. This ensures your professional development is practical, measurable, and immediately relevant, helping you mentor colleagues, lead initiatives, and shape teaching and learning across your school.

Recommended Stages for Experienced Leaders

• Price: $200 AUD per year (2 months free)

We recommend the following two stages for leaders who are already proficient in ICT integration and want to scale their influence across colleagues and the school:

Infusion: Mentorship and Influence

Who is it for:

• Leaders already skilled in ICT integration who mentor colleagues.

• Leaders seeking to formalize and scale their influence.

Key Focus:

• Embedding ICT consistently across teaching and leadership practices.

• Mentoring and coaching colleagues in classroom contexts.

• Facilitating collaborative planning, problem-solving, and innovation.

What You Work On:

• Mentoring colleagues to implement ICT-supported lessons.

• Leading collaborative lesson planning and co-design sessions.

• Applying structured reflection to refine instructional decisions.

How Learning Works:

• Milestone-based actions guide real workplace applications.

• Use the Wisdom Tool for evidence-based strategies and practical guidance.

• Record mentoring and collaborative outcomes in the workbook, reflecting on impact.

Leadership Challenge:

• Influence colleagues without relying on formal authority.

• Ensure guidance is intentional, measurable, and defensible.

Feedback & Coaching:

• Workbook prompts guide self-coaching.

• Membership community provides peer feedback, dialogue, and insight sharing.

Outcome: Leadership is visible, intentional, and grounded in practical application, with measurable impact on colleagues’ teaching.

Transformation: Instructional Leadership

Who is it for:

• Leaders ready to drive school-wide innovation and instructional excellence.

• Educators who want to lead initiatives, shape policy, and influence culture.

Key Focus:

• Leading innovation and embedding ICT across the school.

• Making defensible, pedagogically-grounded decisions.

• Developing and reviewing policies to ensure safe, ethical, and effective ICT practices.

What You Work On:

• Leading school-wide ICT programs and professional development sessions.

• Mentoring multiple colleagues and teams in instructional strategies.

• Engaging in professional networks and community partnerships to extend influence.

How Learning Works:

• Milestones structure decision-making, policy development, and leadership actions.

• Use Critical Reflection prompts to analyze leadership impact.

• Record evidence in the workbook, aligned to APST Highly Accomplished and Lead Teacher standards.

Leadership Challenge:

• Balance innovation with pedagogical priorities and ethical responsibility.

• Lead professional development initiatives that build capability across teams.

Feedback & Coaching:

• Engage in membership discussions for peer scrutiny and feedback.

• Workbook reflections serve as documented evidence of leadership outcomes.

Outcome: Become an instructional leader with measurable influence on teaching quality, staff capability, and student learning outcomes.

The Membership Workbook: Your Leadership Tool

• Price: $200 AUD per year (2 months free)

The workbook is central to CPD:

• Leadership Tracker: Log mentoring, coaching, and decision-making.

• Collaboration Journal: Record co-designed lessons and team initiatives.

• Professional Development Tracker: Track workshops, webinars, and reflections.

• Critical Reflection Prompts: Turn actions into evidence and professional insights.

With the workbook, your CPD is applied, measurable, and directly tied to improving teaching and learning in your school

Why This CPD Works

• Applied Learning: Practice leadership while mentoring and teaching.

• Measurable Impact: Track influence, policies, and school-wide outcomes.

• Milestone-Based: Structured, achievable steps for scaling leadership influence.

• Peer Support & Coaching: Community dialogue and the Wisdom Tool provide guidance, validation, and feedback.

This is educational leadership professional development that transforms leadership through action, not theory.

Leadership Courses and Focus Areas for Members

Membership in the ICT in Education Teacher Academy provides practical, workplace-applied professional development. Rather than simply accessing content, members progress through the Technology Integrator’s Learning Journey to Transformation (TILJT) — a milestone-based CPD pathway that guides you to access, apply, reflect, and measure your leadership impact.

The membership includes courses designed for educational leaders at different stages of responsibility, as well as focus areas you can tailor to your school context. Each course and focus area connects to TILJT milestones, ensuring your learning is structured, measurable, and applied in real teaching environments.

Develop Your School ICT Policy

Duration: 3 hours of PD
Who is it for: Teachers and educational leaders responsible for school ICT strategy.

Course Overview:
Learn to design, implement, and review school-wide ICT policies that improve teaching and learning outcomes. Focus on aligning policy with classroom practice while ensuring safe, ethical, and effective ICT use.

Key Outcomes:

• Create ICT policies that enhance teaching and learning.

• Lead school-wide ICT initiatives with measurable impact.

• Embed digital pedagogy in classroom practice.

Aligned APST Standards: 2.2.4, 2.3.4, 2.5.4, 2.6.4, 3.6.4, 4.1.4, 4.5.4

Digital Leadership Course for Teachers in Primary Education

Duration: 3 hours of PD
Who is it for:

• Primary School Principals & Deputy Principals

• ICT Integration Leaders / Coordinators

• Teacher Librarians and Curriculum Leaders

Course Overview:
Develop leadership skills to improve ICT literacy and capability across your school. Focus on mentoring colleagues, leading instructional change, and embedding technology in key learning areas.

Key Skills You Will Acquire:

• Communication and stakeholder engagement

• ICT pedagogical leadership

• Coaching colleagues and mentoring teams

• Planning and delivering staff development activities

Learning Outcomes:

• Conduct school ICT audits and strategic planning.

• Empower colleagues to adopt innovative ICT practices.

• Generate actionable plans for ICT integration across curriculum areas.

• Promote ICT pedagogies and measure whole-school performance.

Aligned APST Standards: 2.6.3, 3.4.3

Staff Inservice Training

Duration: 1 hour of PD
Who is it for: Primary school leaders and teacher leaders responsible for staff professional learning.

Course Overview:
Lead high-quality inservice training for teaching staff focused on ICT and technology integration. Develop practical leadership, coaching, and communication skills to support colleagues and improve student outcomes.

Key Learning Outcomes:

• Understand teachers’ rights to effective professional learning inservices.

• Lead by example in ICT pedagogical classroom practices.

• Share expertise with colleagues in an informative, practical way.

• Evaluate personal performance as a facilitator.

• Use strategies to engage and encourage colleagues’ professional growth.

Aligned APST Standards: 2.6.4, 3.4.4

Focus Areas for Educational Leaders

Once enrolled, members can tailor their professional growth by focusing on specific leadership areas, guided by TILJT milestones, workbook prompts, and action-oriented tasks. These focus areas are designed to develop your capability while having a tangible impact in your school.

We recommend these focus areas for leaders who want to strengthen their influence and scale ICT integration across colleagues and the school:

1. Strategic ICT Planning

• Develop school-wide plans aligned with your vision.

• Use audits and needs analysis to identify growth opportunities.

• Access guidance on ICT development plans, vision statements, and technology mission statements

2. ICT Policy Leadership

• Lead the creation and implementation of school ICT policies.

• Support teachers in embedding technology into curriculum.

• Use templates and examples for policy design and implementation

3. Professional Development for Staff

• Plan and deliver high-quality staff inservices on ICT integration.

• Track progress and reflect in the Membership Workbook.

• Build mentoring and coaching skills to guide colleagues in practical classroom integration

4. Whole School Assessment & Reporting

• Measure ICT capability across the school.

• Create evidence-based portfolios to monitor progress and inform teaching strategies.

• Apply structured templates and reflective prompts for consistency and accountability

5. Vision and Culture in Digital Learning

• Develop a shared vision and ICT culture for your school.

• Engage staff, students, and parents in collaborative planning.

• Access examples of vision statements, mission statements, and strategic planning guides

Using the Wisdom Tool to Access These Focus Areas

The Wisdom Tool enables members to quickly search the Academy’s library for strategies, examples, and solutions across all focus areas:

• Retrieve evidence-based guidance for ICT planning, policy, and leadership challenges.

• Explore practical case studies from other schools.

• Find step-by-step guidance linked to TILJT milestones.

When combined with the Membership Workbook, the Wisdom Tool ensures you can act, reflect, and record your leadership impact efficiently and effectively in your school context.