Current and Past Partnering
1. Department of Education and Training & Victorian Academy of Teaching and Leadership
The EdPartnerships team has extensive experience in partnering with the Victorian Department of Education and Training (DET), the former Bastow Institute of Leadership and more recently the Victorian Academy of Teaching and Leadership.
As an organisation we have had numerous and ongoing contracts with these entities over a 15-year period. The focus of these partnerships has been leadership development and capacity building at all levels of the system, including targeted regional programs for office and school-based colleagues. We have also facilitated a range of statewide professional learning, undertaken research and resource development and participated in school review processes.
Current professional learning programs include:
- Leading Mathematics (Bastow/Victorian Academy of Teaching and Leadership)
- Leading Curriculum and Assessment (Bastow/Victorian Academy of Teaching and Leadership)
- Differentiated Support for School Improvement (DET)
- Primary Maths Science Specialist Program (DET)
2. Catholic Education
The EdPartnerships team has a long history of working in and with Catholic Education. Our team members have had teaching and leadership roles in Catholic Schools, Regional Offices and the central office locations in the system.
We have had long-term contracts with Catholic Education Melbourne over the past 15 years in the following areas; Contemporary Learning and Innovation project, Learning and Teaching, Religious Education, eLearning, ICON project, special projects with executive leadership, Regional Office teams, School Reviews and numerous individual school partnerships.
Over the last three years members of the EdPartnerships team have undertaken a long-term partnering contract with Catholic Education Ballarat working with the executive leadership team and principals of schools across the diocese.
This has included the following:
- Co-design and facilitation of the Diocesan Principal Leadership Gatherings across the year
- Contributed to the development of the strategy document Strategic Directions: Partnering a Step Further
- Educational Landscape initiative; a research project inviting members of the diocesan education community to co-design guiding principles for education
- Co-designed Learning Agency professional learning
3. Partnering with school clusters and individual schools
The EdPartnerships team has a wealth of experience in partnering with individual schools or clusters of schools within localised areas. We have had the pleasure of partnering with the following schools in recent times:
- Elizabeth Murdoch College
- Grovedale Secondary College
- Prahran High School
- William Ruthven College
- Deer Park North Primary School
- Wonga Park PS
- Mother of God PS
- Carlton PS
- St Joseph’s PS Crib Point
- St Francis de Sales Primary School
- St Paul the Apostle Primary School Doreen
- Dandenong West Primary School
- Footscray Primary School
- Roxburgh Homestead Primary School
- Armadale Primary School
- Berwick Fields Primary School
- Derrimut Primary School
- Eltham High School
We have also engaged with Primary and Secondary leaders, teachers and young people who joined us to form the EdPartnerships Learner Agency Research Circle (2018 -2019).