Leading excellence and equity in Catholic education.

Day 1

8.30 am

Welcome

Tracey Curro and Dr Simon Breakspear
8.50 am

Prayer and blessing

Fr Mark Reynolds
9.00 am

Executive Director's address: system-wide vision

Dr Edward Simons
9.20 am

Flourishing Learners: what and how

Dr Mary Oski and Shauna-Maree Sykes
9.30 am

Keynote – Education for a new humanity: the gift of Catholic schools

Prof Br David Hall FMS
10.25 am

Morning Tea

11.00 am

Keynote – Ecosystem engineers: megatrends in education and wellbeing

Kristen Douglas
11.40 am

Keynote – Leading with or without evidence: elevating teacher quality

Prof Dylan Wiliam
12.20 pm

Keynote – Literacy leadership in a time of change

Emina McLean
1.05 pm

Grace and Lunch

Workshops

2.00 pm

Formative assessment in an AI world

Prof Dylan Wiliam

Teaching all vs Teaching only some!

Tom Sherrington

Developing flourishing learners in RE

Prof Kath Engebretson and Dr Beth Nolen

Crafting coherence: literacy through curriculum and pedagogy

Dr Nathaniel Swain

Be You spotlight: supporting student wellbeing

Jen Berthold

Workshops

3.00 pm

Formative assessment in an AI world

Prof Dylan Wiliam

Teaching all vs Teaching only some!

Tom Sherrington

Building mathematical skills across contexts

Dr Siobhan Merlo

Understanding the what, why, and how of a text-based curriculum

Emina McLean

Neurodivergence in the classroom

Christina Keeble
3.55 pm

Networking / Cocktails

Day 2

8.30 am

Welcome

Tracey Curro
8.50 am

Prayer and blessing

Fr Mark Reynolds
9.05 am

Keynote – The liberating power of great technique in teaching

Tom Sherrington

Workshops

10.25 am

Codifying practices with precision

Bron Ryrie Jones

Teaching for productive learning in Maths

Brendan Lee

Strategies for high-impact curriculum design and instructional coaching

Jamie Clark

Adapting Ochre F–6 English resources for responsive teaching

Lara van Rooyen and Reid Smith

Brave teachers, brave learners: Conversations about sexual behaviours and safety

Smeeta Singh
11.10 am

Morning Tea

Workshops

11.25 am

Teaching all vs Teaching only some!

Tom Sherrington

Formative assessment in an AI world

Prof Dylan Wiliam

Understanding the what, why, and how of a text-based curriculum

Emina McLean

Evidence-aligned curriculum design in Ochre Maths

Sue Davis and Reid Smith

Supporting neurodiverse and differently abled students

Cale Begley
12.10 pm

Grace and Lunch

1.15 pm

Keynote – Big ideas in responsive teaching

Bron Ryrie Jones
1.55 pm

Keynote – Embedding growth culture through curriculum design

Jamie Clark
2.25 pm

Flourishing Learners check-in

Dr Simon Breakspear
2.40 pm

Closing address

Dr Mary Oski and Shauna-Maree Sykes

Program subject to change once agenda confirmed.