Strategies to Thrive as a Year Level Coordinator Term 2

The role of year level co-ordinator (YLC) is a critical third-party intervention to support active problem solving so students and teachers can work more effectively together, strengthening skills and capacity.

This session will offer opportunities to learn and develop your skills including:

1. Communicate with clarity and confidence 2. Handle difficult conversations with parents, staff, and students 3. Understand why students escalate 4. Build effective coping and de‑escalation strategies 5. Use proactive, solution‑focused problem‑solving 6. Review serious incidents using a prevent–prepare–respond–recover framework 7. Strengthen your time and focus as a YLC ensuring clarity of priorities, boundaries and workflow systems.

Sally Learey is a renowned keynote speaker, author and education consultant. As well as teaching, she holds qualifications in training, positive psychology, coaching and counselling. Sally has worked in both training and primary and secondary teaching sectors across a variety of educational settings. Sally is also an author of 7 books ranging from children’s books to adult non-fiction. She is passionate about supporting the wellbeing of teachers and leaders in education. Sally empowers teachers to create classrooms and learning environments that are inclusive for all students. As a mother of a son with special needs which includes ASD, she has a wealth of personal and professional expertise in this area.

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Loved the honesty in the sharing of information and strategies

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Just a big Thank you for giving us the opportunity to attend the Critical Agenda Workshop yesterday.  David presented a great program, lots of handy strategies and he was very engaging and supportive. Highly recommended.  I was very happy we did not have to do any Role play’s.

The best P.D. I have attended in living memory!” I loved every minute of this engaging, interesting and informative PD. And I have been teaching for 40+ years!

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