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WA Education Awards 2021 Information session
Welcome to Country Marie Taylor
Jasky Singh K2AudioVisual Award sponsor School Services Staff Member of the Year
Kelli Dawson Public Relations and Marketing Department of Education About the awards
Why nominate?
Categories • 13 categories in total • New: Primary Deputy Principal • New: Secondary Deputy Principal
Key dates Nominations close 5pm, Thursday 8 July 2021 Judging Monday 9 August to Friday 20 August 2021 Finalists announced Tuesday 31 August 2021 Judges site visits Monday 6 September to Friday 17 September Finalists’ networking event Term 4 2021 Presentation breakfast Term 4 2021
Who can nominate? • Anyone working in a public school or a P&C association or school board can nominate • Remember – nominations must go through the principal
My top 3 tips • Get in early! • Use the free writing assistance service • Check your nomination before final submission
Top tips from the experts
Rod Lowther Director Public School Accountability Department of Education Principals Deputy principals
Central to good school leadership is student success, a healthy workplace and strong partnerships with local community.
Central to good school leadership is student success, a healthy workplace and strong partnerships with local community.
Good school leadership • Good school leaders inspire a culture of belonging, where ‘care for’ and ‘connection with’ students, staff and the community, are irreducible pre-requisites. • They are passionate about making a difference for students, the local community and the staff they serve.
Good school leadership • Good school leaders understand the core principles of their work, focusing on the intersection between modelling personal responsibility, professional obligation and public accountability. • They influence quietly, possessing a level of vulnerability that makes them unafraid to ask for help or advice.
Good school leadership • Good school leaders create the conditions whereby students love to come to school and adults love to come to work. • They build a school-wide culture with a profound regard for acceptance of student diversity, complemented by staff who are excited about what they can do for their students.
Rebecca Bope Director, Public School Accountability Department of Education Schools
Excitement comes from the achievement. Fulfilment comes from the journey that got you there. Simon Sinek
A commitment to Every student, Every classroom, Every day, our Strategic Directions.
Top tips • Identify your story- ask yourself why are you writing this nomination and why is it important • Engage with your school community • Tell a story – be distinctive and authentic
Paulina Motlop Director Aboriginal Education, Teaching and Learning Department of Education Aboriginal education
What are the judges looking for?
• Strong alignment of strength-based, culturally responsive whole-
school approaches that support wellbeing, engagement and
achievementStrategic focus
• Mparntwe Education Declaration goals
• Strategic directions for the Department of Education
o Building on strength: Future directions for the Western Australian public school
system. Our long-term vision for education over the coming decade
o Every student, every classroom, every day: Strategic directions for public
schools 2020-2024. Our aspirations and improvement drivers
o Focus 2021. Our annual priority areas for schools
• Aboriginal Cultural Standards Framework = School Improvement and
Accountability Framework
• How do they align ensure whole-school approaches that draw on privilege,
strengthen and embed Aboriginal ways of knowing, being and doing?Top tips
• Has the Aboriginal whole school community been respectfully consulted and
included in all aspects of this application for nomination?
• Is it true to the school values and school culture, and can it be aligned to the
overarching goals of the Mparntwe Education Declaration?
• What is the impact for the whole school community, now and into the future?
o relationships
o leadership
o teaching
o learning environment
o resourcesProfessor Braden Hill Head of Kurongkurl Katitjin Edith Cowan University Aboriginal and Islander education officers
What makes an outstanding Aboriginal Islander
and Education Officer?
• Someone who has a proactive approach to student support that
complements student learning and engagement with evidence of
impact
• Someone who fosters strong linkages between Aboriginal
families/communities and the school
• Someone who takes a whole-of-school approach to their work with
students and colleagues to ensure students are in a position to
succeedMeet the standards
• AIEOs play an integral role in supporting schools to meet two key
standards as part of the ACSF (Relationships and Learning
Environment
• Relationships: between staff, students, their families and their
communities
• Learning Environment: welcoming environment for Aboriginal
students and reflects community aspirations for their childrenTop tips • Review information on past winners and nominees to benchmark your application against • Carefully consider how you will show evidence for the impact of an AIEO’s work i.e. both qualitative and quantitative • In writing the application, try to be explicit in how you are addressing the judging criteria
Nicole Cooper President WA Education Corporate Services Staff Association School services staff
Top tips • It’s not a competition • Focus on strengths and connection • Engage the community
Maria Cox Vice Chair WA Association of Teacher Assistants Education assistants
My experience as an Awards judge • The process • What the judges looked for • What makes a winner
Top tips • How do they make a positive difference? How do they stand out? • How do they show leadership skills? • How do they go above and beyond, using their imagination and initiative?
Andy Jones Associate Professor Edith Cowan University Beginning teachers
What makes an outstanding teacher? What are the judges looking for? • Your growth as a practitioner • Where you add real value – in your context (students, school, community) • Where you and your work fit into the bigger picture This award is related to those who have taught for up to 3 years, working in our schools with a significant proportion of the week dedicated to classroom teaching.
Think strategic • Know where you fit within the bigger picture – My friend Basil Bernstein • The theoretical / conceptual / policy agenda for the broader education setting • How does this play out in your school? • What role you play in this and how you add value? • How you contextualise this in your classroom with your students, colleagues, families, communities
Top tips • Demonstrate that you know where you fit into the bigger picture (system, school, your classroom/ your students) • Demonstrate how you value add (what’s different? what’s needed? what’s outstanding?) • Demonstrate your growth (reflective practitioner – how can I be better at my craft?) • Context is important – what do my students/school/communities need?
Ask the panel
A common
goal of every
nomination ?
To persuade.
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39A story is 22 times
more memorable than
facts alone.
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40Business storytelling
can be used to
persuade and motivate
in ways that cold, hard
facts and bullet points
can’t.
What’s the purpose/point
of the story?
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41Business
Storytelling
T.E.L.L
Time and place
Emotional middle
Link it back to the
logic
= A couple of
paragraphs!
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42From technical expert
to PERSUADER
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43We often regurgitate the lines without thinking about how that
translates to the audience.
Language
Have you carefully thought out how you want to portray the nominee or
school? Are you extending the vocabulary and messaging to persuade
and influence those who are assessing the nomination?
Remember: language can short circuit a judge’s doubts about the claims
you are making in your nomination. 44The basic questions people need answered before deciding to buy
into a message.
1. What is the individual or school doing and why is
it relevant and important to others?
2. Is there a compelling “WHY” the individual or
school perseveres with doing what they do?
3. How can this be measured and what are the
consequences?
4. What challenges has the individual or school
conquered?
5. How has the individual/school changed students’
lives and improved student outcomes?
45Your
presentatio
n language
toolkit • Punchy, short
sentences.
• Colourful/Vivid
phrases – do you
speak in colour?
• Words that
activate people’s
imagination and
actions.
46Speaking
in colour
Metaphors/ analogies and
similes
Avoid backloading!
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471. Metaphors/ analogies
Speaking and similes
in colour “Our technology is like
adding a turbocharger to a
car and in this case makes
the bee allergy vaccine
much more powerful,
allowing the immune
system to better neutralise
the bee venom and prevent
allergic symptoms.”
Nikolai Petrovsky
Flinders Professor of Medicine
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Nominations close Thursday 8 July Visit education.wa.edu.au/awards Thank you
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