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The Teaching Excellence Program enables highly skilled teachers to further advance their capability and confidence in teaching.

Raising the capability, confidence and status of teachers.

Develop the confidence, skills and professional knowledge to be thoroughly prepared for your first principal appointment.

The Victorian Aspiring Principal Assessment (VAPA) is part of a system-wide approach to identify and prepare Victoria’s next generation of principals.

Learn about the Victorian Aspiring Principal Assessment (VAPA). A range of information sessions and programs exist to support you in building your understanding of the VAPA.

Access expert guidance to help you succeed in the assistant principal role.

Leading School Improvement will develop your understanding of the connectedness of schools, regions and system efforts towards school improvement.

Lead evidence-informed, whole school approaches to mathematics teaching and learning.

Focuses on unpacking the knowledge and capabilities required of educators who lead literacy improvement in secondary schools.

Build your technical capability in financial management and develop skills to effectively manage school finances.

Provides assistance to first-time principals with the transition into their new role, and builds their capacity to be an effective leader.

Embedding Numeracy across Secondary Disciplines (ENASD) aims to improve teaching methods and practices.

Technical leadership and training in school asset management, with an emphasis on identifying and managing the key risks in a school.

Develop the capacity of your literacy leadership team and use the FISO improvement cycle to implement effective literacy improvement in your school.

Understanding the Science of Learning and Leading will help you to understand the brain’s learning processes and how this can enhance your school’s learning environments, instructional models, and your leadership capability.

Develop an overview of procurement policies, process and risk within the school environment to manage your school’s purchasing activities.

Improve your capacity to clearly identify the potential threats and opportunities in your school's operating environment.

Expand and enhance your leadership capability with the support of a principal mentor.

Numeracy Local Leaders will strengthen your pedagogical content knowledge, application of numeracy principles and methodologies, and support you to build strategies to lead numeracy improvement.

Professional coaching that will challenge and support you to be a highly effective leader, and empower you to reach greater levels of performance.

Literacy Local Leaders will strengthen your pedagogical content knowledge and ability to apply literacy principles providing you with strategies to lead literacy improvement in your school or context.

The Create: Middle Leaders program equips you with the confidence and capabilities necessary to influence and lead improvement in classroom and pedagogical practices in your school. 

This course will teach you how to better connect, communicate and influence to improve wellbeing, remain centred under pressure and project greater leadership confidence.

Develop daring leaders and embed courage in your school’s culture.

Increase your awareness of the capabilities and resources necessary to build a successful workforce plan and manage more effectively.

Develop your capabilities as a transformative emerging teacher leader and build practical strategies to improve your effectiveness as a leader.

Learn to manage legal risks in your school and to understand key legal concepts and obligations.

Build your school leadership capabilities to make a difference in your school and network, and to succeed as a leader.

Build your expertise in using data to improve outcomes for your students.

The Inspire: Facilitator Training program is an opportunity to support emerging leaders in your local area by delivering Inspire: Local Leaders.

Build a culture of shared responsibility for the health, safety and wellbeing of staff, students, and the school community.

The Instructional Leadership Certificate (ILC) will enable you to build your skills so as to model effective practice to lead other teacher learners.

This program provides school leaders with the fundamental knowledge and skills needed to be competent and confident in preventing, working with, and resolving conflicts in the education community.

Develop your school leadership skills and gain a formal qualification from Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Elevate your school’s assessment practices beyond standard procedures through assessing and developing learner agency. 

Connect: Assistant Principals is a comprehensive leadership program designed to build the skills of assistant principals.

Renowned literacy education leader Dr Misty Adoniou will work with schools in Outer Gippsland for a one- day workshop at the Academy’s Bairnsdale Centre.

Take a guided exploration through education technologies and develop a critical lens to inform decision making in your school.

Team Coaching for CoP Leaders equips principals, assistant principals, middle leaders and network leaders with a proven coaching model to implement in their Communities of Practice.

To support applicants with their 2024 TIF applications and answer any questions, the Academy Fellowships team are holding several information sessions for both teacher applicants and principals.   

Explore the opportunities and applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the classroom, understand how AI works and how it can be safely used to create engaging effective learning experiences.