Co-leading for Students and Teachers

This experience-based program is designed to bring together students and teachers in a way that allows them to learn from each other in a safe and exploratory environment where co-learning is emphasised, collective coaching is practised and creativity is nurtured.

A co-leadership program is designed to cultivate the mindset shift, harness the co-creative process and develop a deeper, more relational perspective that enable students and teachers to co-lead and thrive in a rapidly changing world. This program lays the foundation for a practical approach to coaching, collective sense-making and collaborating for positive action so that student leaders and teacher leaders learn to learn and lead together.

• Collective leadership skills
• Ideation techniques
• Ability to develop personal strengths
• Techniques for mapping and modelling systems
• Strategies for collaboration
• Future-focussed thinking
• Coaching and collective hosting techniques.

Their learning may lead to:

• better communication between teachers and students
• improved teacher and student collaboration
• more confident students
• a higher level of self awareness 
• a more creative approach to problem-solving
• a deeper focus on the future
• a more bold and innovative school outlook

Students with potential and teachers who are open-minded, curious by nature and willing to co-explore challenges at the personal, professional, school community level.

The program can be designed to take place over a course of one school term, to embed deep learning and for practice to take hold. For change to be meaningful and impactful time for reflection and practice is paramount.

A number of sessions are proposed where principles of leadership and collaboration are practised and attended to. A number of sessions are offered towards the end for turning ideas into action and co-creating the future.