Leading Adult Learning to Improve Learning for all - ONLINE - August 2025

For Kāhui Ako teams of lead principals, ASLs and WSLs

If you lead the learning of adults and teams in your school or workplace and want to:

• build your own and others' capabilities to engage in skillful, rigorous, learning-focused conversations,
• increase teamwork effectiveness and collective responsibility for improving student learning,

We are excited to offer this highly successful adult learning programme in 2025. Constructed with the support and mentorship of Joan Dalton, this programme will enable you to:

• create a learning-focused culture
• build effective collaboration and teamwork skills
• engage in different types of powerful conversations focused to move learning forward
• develop your leadership and ‘Art of Facilitation’ expertise in working with adult learners
• use a wealth of practical strategies, tools and protocols to enhance the effectiveness of the adults you lead.

What this programme provides;

Coaching

• Each participant will receive three 30-minute sessions of personalised coaching to support the new learning being embedded into their context.
• All coaching will be offered with and provided by Evaluation Associates | Te Huinga Kākākura Mātauranga facilitators.
• Depending on location, coaching may be via Zoom or face-to-face | kanohi-ki-te-kanohi to suit.

“The 1-1 coaching was a thoughtful professional conversation which was both targeted and unforced. It was facilitated so that there was a real balance of my thoughts voiced, probing, clarification leading to further goals.” - School Leader, LAL Christchurch 2021

Resources

Each participant will receive their own full set of Joan Dalton’s Learning Talk Books

"The five books are gold. Every time we open one, we find even more useful things!" - School Leader

Course dates are as follows:

Days 1|2: 5-6 August, 2025

Days 3|4: 9-10 September, 2025

Day 5: 23 October, 2025

Your Investment

$1800.00 ex GST per person

We are encouraging teams to attend these workshops. To support this, we would like to offer a

• 10% discount off the total fee for two participants or
• 15% discount off the total fee for three or more participants

To maximise learning for all participants, numbers are limited for each course. Please register promptly to secure your team's place on this 2025 PLD.

If you would like this course to come to you, please contact EA.LAL@evaluate.co.nz to discuss options.

Feedback from previous Workshop Participants;

"Excellent pace and presentation. And with high expectations of us as adult learners. The tone was warm and engaging. Such an excellent course and great to network with a range of educators from throughout Aotearoa. Fantastic presenters." - School Leader, LAL Christchurch 2021

"Thank you for putting together such a superb learning experience... [I’d like] to acknowledge the skill and responsiveness with which you facilitated our first two days. I was not looking forward to the time online but the way you structured it with lots of co-construction and time for breaks made it a pleasure. Your personal warmth and enthusiasm for LAL shone through and made the learning safe and engaging. I now have some really clear goals for my facilitation and I’m working on developing my understanding of how I’ll work to meet them. I’m looking forward to the rest of the course and deeply appreciate the time and care you have already put in to this." - Education Consultant, LAL Online 2022

"Thanks for facilitating our learning! I have been able to gain a deeper understanding of my leadership capabilities and am now thinking of my next steps in terms of strengthening these. Many thanks." - School Leader, LAL Online 2022