Sustainability Rechargable: How to recharge on the go, practical ways to prevent fatigue and burnout Dr Adam Fraser
With the massive levels of disruption seen in our lives, burn out is a real issue for many people in schools today. When team members burn out their performance plummets which means they are more at risk of being disengaged, which then leads to a dysfunctional impact on the culture of the team.
The strategies shared in this presentation have been shown in University studies to reduce stress and burnout in various stressful jobs such.
Sustainability Demystifying innovation for management: how to create a culture of innovation in the workplace Dr Colin Kennedy, Chief Innovation Officer, Creative HQ
Leadership Creating a Culture of Belonging, Agency and Autonomy in Schools Rebecca Butterworth (Hunter Valley Grammar School, NSW)
Student and staff agency is often spoken about in schools. However, what agency looks like in practice is often hard to define despite it being central to the creation of a culture of belonging in schools. This workshop session will explore how to strategically and systematically build agency across school communities. Moving between theory and practice, participants will explore concrete ways to cultivate student and staff "voice" in decision-making through the building of a strategic vision. Participants will also come to understand what it means to ensure school systems are "human" by design and remain focused on building strong connections, mastery, and autonomy. Participants will also reflect on their own journey towards belonging and agency and the ways in which this has been deliberately cultivated in their schools.
Leadership Artificial Intellegence in Education - Promises and Pitfalls Gerard Houlihan (St Michael's Grammar School, Vic)
Artificial Intelligence – What is all the hype about? Over the past three years, no educator could have remained immune from the wide-ranging public pronouncements in the media about the looming impact of AI on the sector. Whilst these pronouncements have typically been delivered with some gusto, there has been scant detail as to what this will look like at the coalface, leaving most teachers and school leaders devoid of the information necessary to make informed decisions around AI. And whilst most schools no doubt already access commonplace applications, the question remains - what are the broader implications for more nuanced applications of AI across less well-defined problems, such as with student wellbeing? Drawing on Gerard’s work in the Oxford Artificial Intelligence Programme and at St Michael’s, this workshop will carefully unpack these questions, first starting with an accessible introduction to the history of AI in context of parallel developments in society and education. Gerard will lead workshop participants through the technical ways in which machines learn, identifying those areas with most potential for schools. A range of case studies will show how St Michael’s and other schools deploy AI. We will look at how recent work in neural networks mimics the human brain and provides inspiration for our understanding of how our students think and learn. We will explore the impact of AI in getting students future ready for work. Lastly, we will consider the numerous ethical and legal conundrums of AI as it applies in an international context and to the education sector, especially focussing on replication, privacy, and inbuilt decision-making biases. There will be many opportunities for everyone to consider the implications of AI for their own school.
Wellbeing Generation Y (haven’t you praised me today?) Or is it Generation Y (aren’t you getting the best out of me?) Dr Judith Locke
Generation Y/Millennials are increasingly a big part of the workforce. Parenting, social, and economic changes in their lifetime have made many of these employees have different expectations of organisations. Can workplaces help them adjust to the reality of work? Should workplaces adjust to them? And what can we do to better prepare upcoming generations for the reality of occupations, such as people-care professions?
In this workshop, Dr Judith Locke will examine the research around millennials’ strengths and challenges when they reach working age. She will look at some solutions to better meld early- to mid-career workers and their responsibilities, with an organisation's goals and practices.