Intensive Leadership RetreatIntensive Leadership RetreatFacilitated by Gavin Grift & Colin Sloper

YOU’LL LEARN HOW TO

TAKE ACTIONTAKE ACTIONInvestigate 12 actions and their associated

tasks, and find out how to apply them to

your current work as a team.

MAKE A PLANMAKE A PLANEquip yourself with a clear process for

planning and conducting collaborative team

meetings that will lead to better results.

OVERCOME OBSTACLESOVERCOME OBSTACLESDevelop insights into how to overcome the

common challenges associated with working

as a collaborative team.

MEASURE IMPACTMEASURE IMPACTLearn how successful teams genuinely

measure the impact they have on student

learning and what to do about it.

DESIGN INFLUENTIALDESIGN INFLUENTIALLearn how successful teams utilise their

agenda as the catalyst for getting real results

in learning.

SUPER POWER YOUR TEAMSUPER POWER YOUR TEAMDiscover the true work and focus of high-

performing collaborative teams.

9 March

Hobart 5 April

Adelaide12 August

Melbourne

THE DEFINITIVE RETREAT ON HOW TO TRANSFORM YOUR COLLABORATIVE TEAMS!

For collaborative teams, one of the biggest challenges is knowing how to use time productively. Based on the masterful book, Collaborative Teams That Work, this highly practical retreat provides definitive guidance for teams to work through ongoing cycles of learning, so they can have maximum impact.

At their worst, collaborative teams can seem like yet another burden to bear – perhaps even a frustrating waste of time in a school day already overflowing with commitments.

If your team doesn’t know how to use its time produc-tively, and is expected to work collaboratively with little support or knowledge on how to do this, it’s difficult to use the power of the group to have any real impact.

Do you find your team focusing on the wrong things? Is it unclear how ongoing professional learning fits into the work of teams in a professional learning community (PLC)? Or maybe there’s just members who aren’t buying into the collective responsibility of the team.

In this intensive retreat, designed for principals, assis-tant principals, collaborative team members, leadership staff, classroom teachers and specialist teachers, you’ll learn how to apply the essential evidence-based actions high-performing collaborative teams implement.

You’ll leave with new insights on how to overcome common challenges, measure impact and use clear processes to plan and conduct successful collaborative team meetings.

WHAT’S UNIQUE ABOUT THIS RETREAT

EXPERT LED

Learn from the expertise of renowned educators and

authors, Gavin Grift and Colin Sloper, who have spent their

careers committed to research-ing, developing, applying and

refining collaborative team processes that genuinely

improve student learning and impact teaching practice.

Our presenters worked as principals, professional learning

providers, PLC leaders, curriculum directors, coaches and classroom teachers – and

speak your language.

CONTEXTUALISED

Each day is contextualised with supporting examples. Partici-

pants are supported to work on their collaborative team process

so they can have maximum impact on student learning.

Unlike some other retreats, we spend much less time on the

‘how’ and ‘why’. Instead we dig deeper into the actual tasks that

collaborative teams in a PLC should focus their efforts on so

that they can be actioned immediately.

SOME QUESTIONS ADDRESSED IN THIS RETREAT

PAST PARTICIPANTS ARE SAYING...

What’s critical to consider when facilitating collaborative team meetings?

What is the best structure to enable collaborative teams to do this work? How do we ensure that this work makes a genuine difference to our school achievement data? What are the current tasks and items we are working on that don’t belong to the PLC process?

How do you stay tuned to the PLC process when team members don’t share responsibility for teaching the same content?

This program has reignited the passion for being a leader. Being a conscious leader and not going into autopilot. Teaching me some new strategies to use when I lead and help grow leaders within the team. Thank you very much!

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”This program has given me powerful tools to bring discipline to collaborative meetings and work to maintain a focus on the goal of the meeting to increase our collective productivity

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He works with systems, schools, leaders and educators to transform them into high-performing PLCs, and build their capabilities to operate as members of highly effective collaborative teams.

Colin Sloper is a leading expert and author on Professional Learning Communities.

Colin’s skills as an educational leader, speaker and coach – alongside his practical advice and knowledge – are highly sought after by educational organisations across all sectors.

Colin is the co-author of Collaborative Teams That Work and authored PLCs; Voices From The Field and Transformative Collaboration.

GAVIN GRIFT

COLIN SLOPER

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

Leaders of year/grade level teams

Specialist team members

Curriculum team members

Middle leaders and principals

Network LeadersPLC teams and collaborative team leaders

Teachers

HOBART

Date: Wednesday 9 March 2022Time: 8:45am to 3:45pmVenue: Hobart Function & Conference Centre 1 Elizabeth Street Pier Hobart

ADELAIDE

Date:Tuesday 5 April 2022Time: 8:45am to 3:45pmVenue: Hilton Adelaide, 233 Victoria Square, Adelaide SA

MELDOURNE

Date:Friday 12 August 2022Time: 8:45am to 3:45pmVenue: To Be Announced

SCAN TO REGISTER

Or : griftedu.com/events

COST: $450 (EX GST) PER PERSON

Included in your registration: Your copy of Collaborative

Teams That Work

HOW TO REGISTER

griftedu.com/eventssupport@grifteducation.com(03) 8686 9077

Through his keynotes, seminars, and coaching services, Gavin has helped thousands of educators cultivate authentic collaboration, build success in others and commit to reflective practice.

Gavin Grift is the founder of Grift Education, and one of Australia’s most in-demand presenters.

Gavin is an accalimed Hawker Brownlow Education author, notable titles include Collaborative Teams That Work, Five Ways of Being and Teachers as Architect.

EVENT DETAILS

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