What is Instructional Leadership?
Instructional leadership describes the process Principals and Leadership Teams go through to implement and embed an effective K-12 literacy program and the High Impact Teaching Practice program. Leaders will also use this approach to develop their teachers’ instructional capacity and curriculum knowledge.
Leaders will be supported to
- Effectively lead teaching and learning improvements
- Lead curriculum improvement in schools
- Use data to design, prioritise and timeline the improvement journey
- Ensure optimum collaboration to maximise the success of the program
How Leaders are Supported
Professional Learning Sessions
Catalyst offers professional learning sessions, that build on the skills of Principals and their Leadership Teams to ensure the best possible outcomes for their schools.
Topics such as effective mindsets and practices, assessment and intervention, improving curriculum resource usage and the role of an instructional leader will form part of these professional learning sessions.
Professional Community
All Principals across the system come together twice a year to connect as instructional leaders for Catholic Leaders’ Day, to learn together and to share the unique challenges they face in managing organisational change within a school environment.
Mentoring
All Principals and Leaders will have the opportunity to work with their Performance Improvement Leaders to design their Catalyst journey, refining it along the way.
S2|E1: Direct Instruction with Jessica Colleu Terradas
Mar 2024
In this episode Jessica explains the difference between ‘big’ DI and ‘little’ di. She delves into the research behind Direct Instruction, dispelling the myths about DI.
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Curriculum Resources: CECG and Ochre Partnership
Mar 2024
CECG teachers contributed to the Australian Curriculum and NSW Syllabus resources now widely available across the Nation.
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Impact of Catalyst: 2020 – 2023
Mar 2024
Learn about our approach to Learning and Teaching. In less than three years we have had 56 schools, 1,700 teachers and over 21,000 students engage in the Catalyst journey.
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S2|E1: The Syntax Project featuring Penny Lucas
Feb 2024
In this episode I chat with Penny Lucas, Instructional leader of Literacy and Kindergarten, Year 1 and Year 2 teacher at Trinity Catholic Primary school in Murrumburrah, NSW. Penny is a contributor to the Syntax Project, of which she explains in our conversation and how this links in with Catalyst.
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The Reading Guarantee – How to give every child the best chance of success: Grattan Institute
Feb 2024
Australia needs a reading revolution. We need to transform the way we teach reading in school, so that every Australian child gets their best chance in life. This report shows how to do it.
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