Professional Learnings NSWPPA

About Professional Learnings NSWPPA

Professional Learnings for Educational Leaders is an initiative to support and inform NSWPPA members of the NSWPPA Professional Learning suite offerings. Our Professional Learning Suite is aligned to our values of Principal Well Being, Principals as Lead Learners as well as supporting Principals to lead School Operations. Our values are wrapped around support, empower, advovate and lead. This podcast discusses educational leadership and insights from Educational Leaders around the world . Our courses and Professional learning include the following world class programs that support educational leadership | Art of Leadership | Art of Leadership MasterClass | Middle Leadership Imperative | Mitch Wallis REAL Conversations | TAO of Teams with Rob Stones | Performance and Coaching Conversations with Rob Stones | AMP Series | The Anxiety Project | Tough Conversations with Michael Hawton | CLARITY Learning Suite | CLARITY Learning Suite support group | CLARITY Learning Suite coaching support | The Flourish Movement for School Leaders | The Flourish Movement for Schools | FRANKLIN COVEY | 7 Habits of Highly Effective People | Speed of Trust | Multipliers | 4 Essential Roles of Leadership | Priority Management | Working Sm@rt with Outlook | Working Sm@rt with TEAMS | Working Sm@rt with Notebook | Working Sm@rt with Microsoft Bookings | Working Sm@rt with Excel | Working Sm@rt with MS Power BI | Working Sm@rt with PowerPoint | Working Sm@rt with MS Word | Working Sm@rt with Project Planning Breakthroughs | Working Sm@rt with Fundamentals of MS Projects The New South Wales Primary Principals’ Association is committed to supporting and empowering principals to effectively lead and manage school communities from a diverse range of contexts. The Association responds to and supports school leaders as they address different challenges in rural, remote and metropolitan schools. Further information about our Professional Learning can be found at:https://www.nswppa.org.au/professional-learning

Publisher

NSW PPA Professional Learning

Category

education · education · education

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

17 Apr 2023

Latest episode

8 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

50 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   8 Oct 2026

   Masters, Not Victims: What Learner Agency Asks of a Leader (James Anderson)

   Victim or master? In the opening episode of The Lead Learner, our new four part series with James Anderson, we ask what learner agency really asks of a school leader. James makes a deceptively simple case. A student without agency feels like the victim of their circumstances. A student with agency feels like the master of them. Agency, he argues, is not a program we hand out. It is an outcome we build, through the environment to act, the will to act, and the power to act. In this episod...

2. 

   30 Jul 2026

   Thomas Guskey: Select Talent or Develop Talent, The Question That Shapes Every Educator

   If professional learning is “working”, where can you see it first: in a staff room conversation, a polished program plan, or in what students do differently tomorrow? We sit down with Dr Thomas Guskey, Professor Emeritus at the University of Kentucky, to get brutally clear on what counts as effective professional learning and how school leaders can evaluate it without turning it into another compliance task. Guskey walks us through his five levels of evaluation and why so many schools get st...

3. 

   10 Jun 2026

   How do I fit everything in? Annette Gray on leading as a coach

   If leadership feels heavier than it used to, you’re not imagining it. We sit down with leadership and coaching specialist Annette Gray to get honest about what effective school leadership looks like in 2026, and why the leaders who thrive now are the ones who ask better questions, share power, and stay deeply human while the system keeps demanding more. We unpack the difference between trust-based leadership and the kind that slips into control and micromanagement. Annette explains how capab...

Who has been a guest on Professional Learnings NSWPPA

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Lila Malarczyk OAM
• Lucette King
• Anthony Moyes
• Andrew Hooper
• Rob Stones

Podcast Authority Score: 48 / 100

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Quality

84

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

30

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