Inspire: From Vision to Action

Helping you deliver transformational change

Delivering change is hard! Inspire 2023 combines tried and tested education innovation, expert workshops and practical tools to help you drive change in your learning community.

You’ll spend two days visiting our Learnhubs and a partner school breaking the mould in traditional education, participating in action-focused workshops and connecting with a tribe of innovators.

Inspire 2023 is where school leaders, educators and edupreneurs unite to transform their learning communities. Ready to join us?

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Inspiration

Get inspired by visiting a variety of innovative learning communities and seeing how they work.

Vision

Start a fresh vision for your own school or learning community, with workshops to help you turn that vision into a strategy.

Practical Steps

Leave Inspire with the tools, advice and strategies you need to to turn your inspiration into action.

Community

The benefit of talking through your ideas with like-minded people who will help challenge and shape your thoughts.

09:30

Visit the Learnlife Eco Hub

11:30

Visit one of our partner schools

13:30

Lunch at local restaurant

15:00

Workshop 1 - Developing a Strategic Roadmap
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16:10

Workshop 2 - Developing Capacity for Innovation
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Dr. Stephen Harris

Learnlife Co-founder

For the last 4 decades Stephen, has been involved in virtually every aspect of the learning ecosystem: primary, secondary, online learning, principal for two decades, inspector of schools & co-founder of Learnlife. Stephen also founded the Sydney Centre for Innovation in Learning (SCIL). His vision is to embed innovation into schools, drawing from the passion and expertise of the teams that worked alongside him. He has deep insights into leadership, innovation and culture.

Workshop 1: From Inspiration to Action: Developing a strategic roadmap

This workshop will help participants articulate a clear vision for their community and then follow some practical steps to create an action plan - strategic roadmap.

Guiding question:
What is your vision statement for learning?

Takeaways:

Understand clearly what a collective envisioning process involves
Will understand why a collective envisioning process is more powerful than traditional vision statements
Start to develop their own plan and strategy

Facilitators:
Stephen Harris & Joyce Mininger

Workshop 2: Developing Capacity for Innovation: Training your people

A strategic roadmap needs to have a team who are capable of aligning with the vision and putting it into action. This workshop looks at some different ways different organisations have created training programs to support innovation.

Guiding questions:

How do you find the best people?
How do you keep the best people?
How do you develop your people?

Takeaways:

Discover some innovative strategies for selecting team members
Understand what an effective team should look like
Start to develop strategies and plans for their own context in relation to developing people

Facilitators:
Leticia Lipp & Stephen Harris

Workshop 3: Frameworks to enhance autonomous learning

People all over the world talk about students growing independent learning skills - but have few ideas around how to systematically do this. Like many other skills, autonomous learning can be nurtured by the consistent use of a framework that is understood and appreciated by everyone - learners and educators

Guiding questions:

What is autonomous learning?
Why is it an important goal?
How do we grow autonomous learning skills in ourselves?
How do we grow autonomous learning skills in learners?

Takeaways:

Be introduced to the Learnlife Stages of Autonomy framework
Become conversant in how they might adapt the framework to suit their own context
Understand how ‘soft skills’ can be developed in a sensitive and supportive manner, integrated into everything that is undertaken in the Hub programs

Facilitator:
Joan Urgell & Stephen Harris