IDEAlab - An innovation course to drive improvements in your school - 2016
From the CEO Something powerful has been happening over the last few years. What had been a collection of programs run by EC across Australia and the globe, turned into a movement. Teacher led innovation is now firmly established as one of the leading ideas in the education sector, and we are thrilled. As hundreds gathered in Melbourne for our EC15 conference, thousands went through our award winning Changemaker Journey curriculum, and tens of thousands engaged on our online platforms and with our new book Edupreneur, we were blown away by the many incredible teacher led innovations we saw changing the lives of children across the world. The collective genius of teachers and school leaders driving powerful changes in their schools and systems is now certainly well beyond us, and we are thrilled to be making a contribution to it. What we continue to hear from educators is that for years they have been told WHAT needs to change and WHY it needs to change. At EC we focus on the HOW of creating change. The IDEAlab workshops are one of our most powerful and popular offerings and see participants learning innovation tools and then rapidly applying them to their unique education settings. We love seeing the light bulb moments, and love even more returning a few months later to see how things have truly changed for students. If you would like to unleash teacher led innovation in your school or region, whilst also preparing the next generation of education leaders with the IDEAlab program, then please reach out, I would love to chat. Together, for a better education for all of our kids. Dave Faulkner Chief Executive Officer WWW.EDUCATIONCHANGEMAKERS.COM
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Course Overview The IDEAlab is a series of prototyping and problem solving workshops that will re-inspire, re-focus and re-energise your team. Based on our award winning work with thousands of educators across the globe and a track record of bringing dramatic improvements to schools, we know that innovation can be taught and unleashed. In the IDEAlab, we work alongside your school team, or teams from a small network of schools, across two full day workshops to help them innovate and begin to action powerful solutions to their identified education challenges. The IDEAlab program is made up of the following components: SELECTION AND PROGRAM PREPARATION: We provide assistance with the marketing of this opportunity, and selection of participants for the program including liaison with school principals and regional leaders and ongoing communication regarding logistics and scheduling. WORKSHOP ONE: In this one day workshop participants are quickly introduced to design thinking before moving into identifying and understanding challenges and missed opportunities in their settings. Participants then rapidly ideate solutions, before stepping into prototyping within the workshop. They will leave the day with a product or a program that they will then aim to test in a safe and controlled environment with students. UNLIMITED COACHING CALLS: Throughout the three months of the program, all participants can engage with unlimited strategy and coaching meetings with our lead facilitators through personalised email, phone calls and video conferences. During these meetings, participants access further learning, receive advice on decisions that need to be made and also (and often most importantly) receive encouragement as they work to action their change projects.
Course Overview ONLINE LEARNING: To reinforce the face to face learning we also provide access to an online learning community in partnership with MyED (myedapp.com). Participants can step through individual learning at their own pace, engage in group learning, or receive timely support from our lead facilitators. WORKSHOP TWO: Participants return with the results from their prototype and receive support to either pivot a concept which has not worked as they expected or refine one that has. They will also be skilled up with the tools they need to see their solution achieve ongoing change for students, scale beyond the original site and be sustainably led by others. IMPACT ASSESSMENT and REPORTING: Our team work closely to monitor not only the change that takes place professionally and personally in the participants, but also the impact on the students that are influenced by their change projects. We provide consistent reporting to the local and regional education offices to provide feedback on the program and help to spread best practice within and across schools. Impacts are shared through written reports which include photos after each workshop.
Lead Facilitators Dave Faulkner - Chief Executive Officer Dave is the CEO and co-founder of Education Changemakers, and as one of Australia s most awarded educators has vast experience leading education change at the school, regional and national level. An expert in the development of education leaders, with a proven track record at the highest levels, Dave matches a powerful grasp on grassroots realities with an in-depth system level thinking skills. Dave s education leadership journey began as a principal of an Australian school when he was only 24, and throughout his twenties he built a powerful reputation as a leader who could achieve strong outcomes across a range of education contexts. During this period he was named as the Young Australian of the Year (WA) and Young Leader of the Year (WA), and was also widely profiled for his leadership of the highly challenging Halls Creek District High School. Following this role, he was appointed as the Director of the Barkly region, Australia s (and probably the world s) largest education jurisdiction. Dave speaks and works with thousands of educators each year and advises senior government leaders and leading philanthropists in Australia.
Lead Facilitators Aaron Tait - Director of Innovation Aaron is the co-founder and Director of Innovation of Education Changemakers, and brings the radical thinking element to EC that helps us to stand out from other players in the global professional learning landscape. His ability to draw upon out of the box ideas and challenge education audiences to trial new concepts is globally recognised and is well illustrated in EC s recently published book Edupreneur: Unleashing teacher led innovation in schools of which Aaron was the lead author. Aaron draws upon lessons from a diverse career that has seen him serve for seven years as a decorated Australian military officer, run a secondary school for street-children in a Tanzanian slum, run an orphanage in Kenya, and graduate from three Masters degrees in strategy, international relations and development, with the third, from Cambridge University. Aaron is the co-founder and former CEO of Spark* International, and now the CIO of YGAP, an organisation that has accelerated 180 high impact entrepreneurs across four countries who have dramatically changed the lives of more than 100,000 people living in poverty in Africa and the Pacific. Aaron has spoken with audiences including TED, Do Lectures, AITSL, Microsoft, ACEL, HSBC, PWC and Sankalp.
Lead Facilitators Summer Howarth - Director of Learning Summer is the Director of Learning at Education Changemakers, is one of Australia s most connected education influencers, and has boldly emerged as a powerful and disruptive new voice in the sector. Summer brings expert knowledge in design thinking, middle years schooling and environmental education, grounded in extensive experience teaching in some of Australia s most forward-thinking private schools. Known to many on twitter as @edusum, she has a deep passion for unleashing and spreading teacher led innovations and is highly engaged in Australia s education startup scene. Following eight years of senior teaching experience at PLC Sydney, Ravenswood School for Girls, Knox Grammar School and Anastasis Academy, Summer consulted to the NSW Government and taught Master of Teaching units at Sydney University before being appointed as a Senior Project Officer for AITSL, leading on the Learning Frontiers initiative. Summer is also the driving force behind the EC conference series (www.ec15.org) and was one of the founders of TeachMeet Sydney. She holds a Masters degree from Macquarie University and was the recipient of the Paul Harris Fellowship for Service to Girls Education.
Lead Facilitators Louka Parry - Director of Programs Louka is the Director of Programs at Education Changemakers and is one of Australia s most exciting emerging education thinkers and doers, with a track record of leading dramatic improvements in challenging school settings. He brings expert knowledge in school leadership, new teacher support and organisational culture to the EC crew. Louka represents the new generation of education leaders as an individual who has traveled to every continent on the globe, learned five languages fluently (including the Indigenous Australian languages Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara), graduated with two Masters degrees in applied linguistics and education (studying one of them under John Hattie at Melbourne University), and studied at Harvard University all before he was thirty. Louka has matched these achievements with six years of experience as a teacher, being promoted to Principal at only 27 years old and in 2012 he was named South Australian Inspirational Public Secondary Teacher of the Year. Louka has spoken and worked with diverse audiences across Australia and the globe including AITSL, Federal Treasury, TFA, NARIS, Leading Educators Across the Planet, and Education We Want.
This was a great day. I am very excited to get started back in school and also to come back for the next workshop! 2015 Participant Incredibly engaging. I have never been in a workshop that has come anything close to this. 2015 Participant
The EC Difference There are some unique characteristics that set EC apart from most education professional development organisations. Some of these include: WE ARE ALL EDUCATORS: All of our facilitators are award winning former teachers who have at least led schools as principals, if not regions as directors. Our team also ground this experience with post-graduate degrees from some of the world s best universities. We always utilise team teaching, bringing at a minimum two diverse facilitators to every event. WE COME TO YOU: As former educators we know that often the best professional development opportunities take place in only a few global cities. At EC we are committed to traveling to where our participants are for our workshops, reducing the time that they are away from their students. PREPARATION AND LOGISTICS We arrange all of the travel and accommodation considerations for our facilitators and include this in our quoted price, reducing logistics for your team and allowing you to focus your time and efforts on improving the education outcomes of your students. All you have to do is organise a suitable room, the travel of your teachers and catering. We bring all of our own equipment as well as custom branded stationary and supplies. RESPONSIBLE GLOBAL CITIZENS As a certified BCorp organisation we have a passionate belief that businesses are a force for positive social change. Our for-profit status allows us to find and keep world class facilitators, but we direct a significant proportion of our profits to supporting education projects that lift people out of poverty across the globe with our charity partner Spark* (www.sparkinternational.org).
The Investment The price for the Idea Lab package is $13,900* The value that our partners and participants receive for this price is significant including: - TWO days of face to face workshops with participants. - UNLIMITED coaching throughout the three months through calls and an online professional learning community. - Ongoing injections of learning and support throughout the THREE MONTH program. - Places for up to FORTY participants in the program, resulting in a per participant price comparable to many two day Australian education conferences. - TAILORED content for each program to ensure that local contexts are respected and engaged with. - ONGOING engagement with the 11,000 educators in our social media network and ongoing access to the EC blog and meet-up opportunities. * 1. 2016 dates are secured upon receipt of a 50% deposit. 2. EC covers the cost of facilitator travel and accommodation as well as all equipment and stationary for each workshop. EC does not cover teacher release, venue hire, catering or travel and accommodation for participants. 3. EC maintains its only indemnity and public liability insurances. 4. EC is able to work with a range of stakeholders (such as with regional leadership, school leadership and philanthropic support to help a program be held in a region). 5. GST is added to this amount at invoice.
How We Can Work Together We place great importance on thrilling all of our partners and clients, and if you would like to begin a discussion with us, please send an email directly to our CEO, Dave Faulkner. Dave s contact details are below and we have a commitment to engaging with you, within 24 hours of you reaching out. Our major product offerings are listed on our website, however, if you have a creative idea that you would like to discuss for your school or organisation, please do not hesitate to get in touch. Global Headquarters: 102 Tope Street, South Melbourne, Melbourne, 3205, Australia Getting in Touch: Dave Faulkner - Co-Founder & CEO Email: dave@educationchangemakers.com Tel: 0418 935 724 Website: www.educationchangemakers.com www.ecideas.org (our platform to share teacher led innovations) www.ec16.org (our global conference) Twitter: @EduChangemakers #EduChange #iteach