Professional Learning Areas

Identity & Wellbeing - Enhance learner identity, belonging and wellbeing, and explore how to ensure students feel safe, known and ready to learn.

• Understanding neurodiversity in the classroom

• Identity, belonging and student wellbeing

• Sensory processing and the learning environment

• Supporting students who mask at school

• Creating classroom environments where students feel safe, known and understood

Strengths-Based Inclusion

Recognise and respond to student strengths, interests and diverse learning profiles.

• Strengths-based practice

• Universal Design for Learning (UDL)

• Interest-based engagement

• Inclusive classroom culture

Flexibility in Practice

Apply practical, sustainable strategies that improve access, participation and learning for a wider range of students.

• Executive functioning supports

• Flexible assessment

• Reasonable adjustments in practice

• Spoon theory and energy capacity

• Reducing cognitive load

Voice, Agency & Partnership

Foster student voice, self-advocacy and effective partnership with families.

• Student voice and agency

• Partnering with families

• The Individual Education Plan process

• Self-advocacy and collaborative support planning