Online Course FOR Educational Leaders
Welcome to the Agile School Leadership Program. Learn to lead sustainable school improvement.
A focused 12-week program for school and system leaders who want to lead meaningful and sustainable change.
Format
3 × 3-hour live workshops
Start date
16 February 2027
Duration
12 weeks · 9 hours total
Investment
$990 AUD + GST
The Agile School Leadership program is an online course led by Dr Simon Breakspear for school leadership teams who want to level up and lead meaningful change.
Learn new ways of thinking and working that will enhance your impact whilst decreasing the time and effort it takes to lead improvement. We will help you rise above the urgent and get into the essential work.
Now, more than ever, we need dynamic school leaders, strong teams, and resilient organisations.
WHAT YOU WILL DEVELOP
Leadership capabilities that stick
The program focuses on the most essential elements of leading effective change — skills you can apply from the very first session.
- Learn Agile School Leadership tools
- Clarify your improvement priorities and pathways for impact
- Build momentum through responsive execution
- Harness lean monitoring in order to track progress and roadblocks
- Develop a clear and repeatable process for leading an iterative improvement journey that can adjust for the human dynamics of change in schools
Who Is It For?
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We’ve designed this program for educational leaders with teams at all levels.
Join as a team – 20% off for additional team members: Take the course as a team and develop new skills and mindsets, have deeper discussions and debrief sessions throughout the program, and build a shared understanding.
Workshop Schedule
Our program includes three 3-hour online workshop sessions with Dr Simon Breakspear (for a total of 9 hours of live workshop time over the course).
Always recorded and made available for on-demand watching.
Cost
$990 plus GST for the first person.
20% off for each additional team member.
What you will learn
🎥 Learn more about the 3 core modules (4:46 min). Play >
WORKSHOP 1: Clear Thinking
Tuesday, 16 February 2027
9:30 AM – 12:30 PM (AEDT)
WORKSHOP 2: Responsive Execution
Tuesday, 23 March 2027
9:30 AM – 12:30 PM (AEDT)
WORKSHOP 3: Lean Monitoring
Tuesday, 11 May 2027
9:30 AM – 12:30 PM (AEST)
Check-in Sessions [Optional]
We give resources for system leaders to run check-in sessions with their schools. These sessions help participants overcome setbacks and apply our methods within your unique context.
“I highly recommend the Agile Leadership Program for school leadership teams who want to move beyond templates when implementing school improvement.”
Naomi Campbell & Team
Korumburra Secondary College
Join the Waitlist for February 2027
Please fill in the form below to join our waitlist, and be the first to find out when registrations open.
You can also reach out to our programs team directly on team@simonbreakspear.com.
We’re looking forward to having you as part of our next cohort.
Our courses are open to school leaders and system leaders within educational roles.
About Simon Breakspear
Work alongside Simon throughout this membership, and join leading academics, thinkers and practitioners.
Simon is a researcher, advisor and speaker on educational leadership, policy and change. Simon develops frameworks and tools that make evidence-based ideas actionable and easy to understand. Over the last decade his capability building work has given him the opportunity to work with over 100,000 educators across more than 10 countries.
Simon is an Adjunct Senior Lecturer in the School of Education at UNSW. He serves as an advisor to the NSW Department of Education and sits on an expert steering committee for the Australia Institute for Teaching and School Leadership (AITSL). Simon received his BPsych (Hons) from UNSW, his MSc in Comparative and International Education from the University of Oxford and his PhD in Education from the University of Cambridge. Simon began his work in education as a high school teacher.
F.A.Q
Can I do this program on my own?
Yes of course! Every cohort has at least 20-30% of participants who join on their own. Whilst we strongly advocate for the benefit of team learning, you can still experience a rich learning program engaging on your own.
How much time will this take?
The minimum engagement required to understand our core practices and tools is about 12 hours over three months. This involves 3 x 3-hour live zoom workshop sessions (or watching recordings) and 3 hours of applying the tools (through our optional tutorials or your own application in context). Of course with a comprehensive digital curriculum available many students choose to go far deeper into the available content either during the initial 12-week program or throughout their 12-month access to the online content. We will never pressure you during the program. Do what you can, with the time that you have, and we will be there every step of the way to help you gain as much benefit as possible.
What happens if I miss sessions?
We totally understand how busy and unpredictable school life can be. All of our faculty have worked in schools, and spend time with educators every week. All of our live sessions and tutorials are recorded and made available within 24 hours of delivery. So never feel pressured or stressed about missing a session or needing to rush out to do with an unexpected incident. We are with you every step of the way with flexible approaches for you to engage with the content when you have the time and cognitive bandwidth. Remember you will have access to our full online digital curriculum and can dip in and out of the content and recorded sessions for 12 months.
Will this help my team move forward together?
The simple resounding answer we hear from Alumni who have engaged their entire leadership team is YES! We have worked with team sizes from 2 to 18. Our common language, tools and ways of working can help you achieve two years’ worth of team formation in 3 months. Turn up with your team and let our faculty help to work alongside you to move the needle. Sometimes teams just need to hear the same core messages from someone outside the organisation. Our experts and faculty can do exactly that.
What time zone do the live sessions run in, and are they recorded?
Our workshops are streamed from Sydney, Australia, and are in the AEST or AEDT time zone (depending on Daylight Savings). You may not be able to make 100% of all 3 workshops, so we record every session so that you can engage in your own time with the content that is most relevant to you.
What do I need to complete in order to receive a certificate?
You will need to attend or catch up on the live recordings for each of the live sessions and demonstrate your understanding and application of 5 simple tools. We will build your capability to understand these tools in the workshops, and you will be supported to apply these tools during tutorial sessions.
How long will I have access to the course materials?
You will have access to all course materials for one year. Your access period will start the date you enrol. The workbooks, tools and slides are all downloadable. So you’ll have access to these materials for as long as you like. If we make updates or upgrades to our tools or frameworks, we will send them out to you as part of our Agile School Leadership Alumni community.
What happens once I complete the 12 weeks course?
You will join our global Alumni community and have access to our private LinkedIn Group.
Still wondering if this course is right for you?
Please reach out to our team, and we can help explore whether our work is likely to be a good fit for you and your team. Email us at agileleaders@simonbreakspear.com
Loved by learners across the globe
Find out what some past participants have to say about our program
Thanks Team Breakspear for the inspiration! The Agile Leadership Program has really impacted positively on our Leadership Team’s work. It has made our projects more realistic by helping us to identify clear timelines, enablers and barriers. Our leadership team is more accountable to each other through the stand-up check-ins, as well as more connected to each other’s work. The encouragement to start and to sharpen iteratively has freed us as a team to move forward and learn from our attempts, whilst working together to analyse each cycle and support each other’s improvement journey.
It’s also bringing a common language and way of working to our teams across the school and supporting us and our staff to become clearer about the impact we want to have and creating effective timeframes for the work. Our staff rated the Clarify Canvas and the Rapid Action Plan as the two most useful coaching tools this Semester.
Simon knows schools and has incredible insight into the work we do daily, with valuable metaphors that are engaging, visual and practical. I highly recommend the Agile Leadership Program for school leadership teams who want to move beyond templates when implementing school improvement.
This program has refined what the leadership team is doing so that we can provide a clear structure to staff. It has changed my way of thinking to be more precise and targeted with my actions, and the proformas have made it simple to implement.
This program has helped refine the school improvement process – making a large-scale project manageable through the use of targeted dialogue and explicit planning.
Having a chance to work as a leadership team, apply learning to our own context and spend time talking through areas of improvement within our own site is something we rarely have time to do. The different tools gave us a more succinct way of moving through the process so that we can remain focused and driven and we look forward to sharing it with our staff.
The program has provided some really effective and efficient tools to support our work as a leadership team. The mixed mode of delivery has been easy to follow and very engaging. The Agile team has been very supportive and helpful in coaching sessions.
We are now clear, more focused and targeted on our improvement.
The whole premise of doing less in a focused, productive and deep way really resonated with me. Love the clarity of it all!
It gave a great insight in how to be realistic in your approaches, how less is more and how to make a real change to the lives of children and our own practises.
I have been involved in numerous Leadership programs over the years. This one has been particularly excellent. It doesn’t matter how many courses you do over the years, this course has fresh and up to date ideas which has been refreshing. The format is terrific.
This program has provided me with new ways of thinking and working. It has also provided me with the evidence to confidently push back on demands from sources outside of my school.
This program has provided our team with a simpler view of moving forward in our school planning.
The learning gained from this program will support me to work with a team of leaders and teachers in a direct and effective manner.
It was wonderful to be involved in a process that intentionally and simplistically connects leadership experiences and behaviours with solution focused strategies and tools. Simon and Ryan are very personable and makes the experience practical for all involved. The in-between (tutorial) sessions allow you to go further and monitor your own learning.
We’re now moving in a clear direction as a School Improvement team. The program really built our understanding of how to effectively and clearly build effective practices.
This course has given our team a clear structure to move forward in our school improvement work. It has helped us target and track our work and is definitely a process we will continue to use moving forward!