Day 1: Leadership Retreat

Strengthen your collaborative team practices

This retreat is designed to help you and your colleagues turn collaboration into real impact. Across the day, you will be guided through the 12 essential actions of high-performing collaborative teams and shown how to apply them in your school context.

What You Will Gain

Across the day, you will:

Take Action: Explore the 12 actions that drive effective collaborative teams, and link them to the real work you do every week.
Plan with Purpose: Learn a proven process for designing agendas that keep meetings focused, productive, and centred on student learning.
Overcome Obstacles: Identify common challenges that hold teams back, and develop strategies to move forward with clarity and commitment.
Measure Impact: Discover how successful teams track their influence on student learning, using quick checks, SMART goals, and evidence-based processes.
Build Strong Norms: Practice how to set clear roles, shared norms, and accountability structures that make teamwork sustainable.
Supercharge Your Team: Leave with practical strategies for structuring team cycles of learning that improve teacher practice and accelerate student achievement.

This day balances expert input, guided activities, and team reflection, ensuring you leave with both fresh insights and practical tools ready to implement immediately.

Highlighted Topics for Mentor Program

Clarity in Collaboration: How can establishing purpose, focus, and structure keep collaborative teams anchored on student learning?
Driving Action: How can we move from talk to targeted action that measurably improves student learning?
Sustaining Impact: How can reviewing results and embedding successes ensure continuous improvement in student learning?

Day 2: Accredited Mentor Program

Become a certified mentor and lead collaborative transformation in your school

Take Your Leadership Further

If you have already experienced the Collaborative Teams That Work Retreat, this next step is for you. The Accredited Mentor Program is a powerful, hands-on day that equips you to lead CTTW professional learning in your own school. With full certification, a mentor licence, and a complete suite of resources, you will be ready to inspire, guide, and embed this work with confidence.

What You Will Gain

Across the day, you will:

Strengthen your leadership by exploring the “big picture” of why collaboration transforms schools and what it takes to sustain it
Master four critical mentor capabilities: navigating content and processes, knowing when to advocate or inquire, liberating colleagues to own the work, and compelling others through storytelling
Receive a complete mentor toolkit with licensed presentations, templates, and resources to deliver CTTW with fidelity in your context
Design your own action plan, ensuring the program is tailored to your school’s needs and ready for immediate implementation
Join an ongoing community, with four group coaching sessions each year to refine and grow your practice

Why It Matters

Accredited mentors are at the forefront of building collaborative cultures. You will leave this program not just with knowledge, but with the certification, licence, and resources to make a lasting difference.

Highlighted Topics for Mentor Program

Laying the foundation: How can grounding ourselves in purpose and shared principles prepare us to lead collaborative transformation?
Bringing the Vision to Life: How can understanding the CTTW program and the Emerge Framework empower us to lead with clarity and confidence as mentors of this approach?
The Way Forward: How can we turn today’s insights into an actionable plan that drives real change in our schools and in ourselves as accredited mentors?