Professional Learning for school leaders, teachers and parents

Achieving effective, sustainable partnerships in education through improving capacity for engagement in learning.

We are committed to developing supportive relationships with our clients, facilitating learning, mentoring and coaching through a relational and strategic process.
Five decades of research has consistently shown parent engagement has a significant impact on student learning outcomes. Recent research indicates that random acts of engagement have little or no impact on the long term educational outcomes of students or on a whole school approach to developing a culture of family-school partnerships.

Practically Learning has developed three unique learning packages to assist schools to develop authentic partnerships with parents. Connect, Engage and Inspire Learning has been designed to provide guidance for a consistent, strategic, whole school approach to developing relationships with families, to engage parents in learning and to inspire authentic partnerships that have a positive impact on student learning.

Our three phase process takes you through the journey towards a sustainable approach to family-school partnerships which we link with your Annual Action and Improvement Plan and the AITSL standards. The training provided for teachers is able to be applied to registration requirements as it includes a certificate of attendance and opportunities for reflection on learning during the sessions.

The second phase of the family-school partnerships journey focusses on capacity building of both educators and parents. Through this phase school leaders will learn about current parent engagement practices and develop strategies to support teachers to implement these in their community. Teachers will become more confident and capable of enabling parents to engage in learning and to recognise improvement in learning of their students.

Engage Learning Workshops - Leaders

Engage Workshops for Leaders

The Why, What and How of parent engagement in learning

Does your school have what it takes to engage with parents to enable them to engage effectively in learning with their children?

Do you know how to connect effectively with parents to avoid conflict and establish the foundations for a partnership approach to learning?

Do you know what a partnership with parents actually looks like? How are your staff engaging with parents as part of best practice teaching related to your school action plan and the AITSL Standards?
This workshop explores ways you can build the confidence and capacity of teachers to effectively engage with parents to improve student attitudes, skills and effort in their learning to achieve their full potential.

Workshops are able to be delivered over 3 x 3 hour sessions or as a full day professional learning workshop.

We recommend you complete our family-school connection checklist first to learn more about where you are placed on the parent-school partnerships journey.

Complete our Checklist

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Engage Learning Workshops - Teachers

Engage Workshops for Teachers

Building teacher capacity as enablers of engagement

Do your teachers understand how to engage with parents to enable them to engage effectively in learning with their children? Do teachers know how to connect effectively with parents to avoid conflict and establish the foundations for a partnership approach to learning? Do your teachers have an understanding of implementing and integrating impactful engagement strategies into their teaching practice? How are your staff engaging with parents as part of best practice teaching related to your school improvement plan and the AITSL Standards?
This workshop guides teachers in developing knowledge and understanding of how to engage parents in learning. The workshop includes tools for planning and implementation of strategies that align with current learning.
Workshops are able to be delivered over 3 x 3 hour sessions or as a full day professional learning workshop.

We recommend you complete our family-school connection checklist first to learn more about where you are placed on the parent-school partnerships journey.

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