Educational Leadership - people, pedagogy and practice - Series 1, 2026

Educational Leadership - people, pedagogy and practice

This course is designed for educational leaders who want to move beyond managing practice and step confidently into leading pedagogy with purpose.

Packed with practical, research-informed strategies, this series supports leaders and teams to strengthen organisation, communication and relational impact. At its core, the course invites you to lead by enabling your team to more fully engage their professional agency, collective potential and shared inquiry.

Leading pedagogy with a strong purpose requires deep awareness of what we say, what we do, and how we do it, because these micro encounters create your pedagogical culture. When leaders walk alongside their teams, rather than ahead of them, innovation, trust and professional growth flourish. Through collaboration and dialogue, educators are supported to rethink, unlearn and relearn, strengthening practice in meaningful and sustainable ways.

Research is clear: effective educational leadership improves outcomes for children and builds resilient, reflective pedagogical teams. This course brings that research to life in practical, human and achievable ways.

This conversation series includes six sessions:

• Tuesday 10 February 2026, 2:00-3:00pm

  The role of educational leadership

  What do I focus on: teaching quality, conversations for change, learning together

  
  

• Tuesday 10 March 2026, 2:00-3:00pm

  Leadership as coaching

  Shared goals, companionship and experiential learning – not audits and templates

  
  

• Tuesday 7 April 2026, 2:00-3:00pm

  Building a pedagogical culture

  Positive emotional and relational environments where curiosity and research thrive

• Tuesday 12 May 2026, 2:00-3:00pm

  Leading pedagogical change 

  Readiness, time, resistance and rethinking a recipe for success

  
  

• Tuesday 2 June 2026, 2:00-3:00pm

  Navigating courageous conversations

  Psychological safety, intellectual honesty and kindness

  
  

• Tuesday 23 June 2026, 2:00-3:00pm

  Reflection and questions                    

  The final session will be designed by your questions & curiosities as a leader 

“Pedagogical leaders embody the dispositions for inquiry and call these dispositions forward in educators: dispositions to marvel, to doubt, to make mistakes, to stand open to others and to everything that is new” 

Pelo & Carter, 2018, p.43

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