Lead Learner suite
Important note
The following Leader Learning suite courses will be updated soon
- Challenging mathematical tasks (course code )
- Exploring patterns (course code )
- Flexible additive thinking (course code )
- Flexible multiplicative thinking (course code )
- How numbers and fractions work (course code )
- Quantifying collections (course code )
If you are enrolled in any of these courses, you may wish to complete by COB Friday 19 December 2025 to avoid losing current progress.
Purpose
The Lead Learner professional learning series supports educational leaders to strengthen and use their expertise of evidence-based literacy and numeracy concepts to lead practice improvement in schools.
Who should participate?
Kindergarten to Year 6 school leaders or aspiring leaders
Mode of delivery
Self-paced online learning.
Content
The Lead Learner professional learning series supports those leading literacy and numeracy improvement in schools. The series is designed to prepare leaders when building capability in teachers in specific literacy and numeracy focus areas.
The series is designed for individuals who have a deep understanding of their school's self-assessment and specific literacy and numeracy improvement and progress measures outlined in the School Excellence Plan.
The professional learning includes an introduction, focused literacy or numeracy knowledge development and course evaluation.
Introduction
The Introduction is the common component in the Lead Learner professional learning series and provides foundational learning required to understand:
- the purpose of the Lead Learner professional learning series
- how the series aligns to key reforms across the department
- the role of the teaching and learning cycle from a leadership perspective
- the key resources available to lead practice improvement in schools.
Note: The Introduction course only needs to be completed once.
Part 1: Focused literacy or numeracy knowledge development
Each selected focus area assists school leaders to use expert knowledge and practice in a specific literacy or numeracy focus area. This learning supports school leaders to:
- deepen expert content knowledge of evidence-based teaching strategies for literacy or numeracy improvement of all students throughout the teaching and learning cycle in the context of NSW syllabuses
- apply a leadership approach to trialling evidence-based teaching strategies in the classroom
- reflect on and evaluate strategies to improve student outcomes in literacy and numeracy
- access universal supports available to schools, including resources, assessment tools and further professional learning to plan for capability building in others.
Part 2: Course evaluation
The 2 minute evaluation will be treated confidentially and used only for the purposes of evaluating professional learning. Feedback will guide future development of support and professional learning for school leaders.
Participants will need to complete the evaluation survey to gain accredited hours for the course.
Course list and registration details
Lead Learner series - Introduction (course code )
This couse will be updated soon - complete by COB Friday 19 December 2025 to avoid losing current progress.
Note: Participants must complete this prerequisite before enroling in other courses.
Literacy
- Assessment of reading (course code )
- Comprehension instruction (course code )
- Creating written texts (course code )
- Decodable texts (course code )
- Spelling (course code )
- Text selection (course code )
- Vocabulary for comprehension (course code )
- Word recognition (course code )
Numeracy
- Assessment of numeracy (course code )
- Challenging mathematical tasks (course code )
- Cultivating positive dispositions (course code )
- Exploring patterns (course code )
- Flexible additive thinking (course code )
- Flexible multiplicative thinking (course code )
- How numbers and fractions work (course code )
- Quantifying collections (course code )
Contact
If you have any questions, contact literacy.numeracy@det.nsw.edu.au