Our Events and Workshops

Join us for a focused professional learning workshop designed to empower teachers in making informed decisions when selecting classroom resources. In this one-hour session, you’ll gain practical insights and use a structured approach to evaluate curriculum materials using our proven Evaluating Curriculum Resources Checklist.

There has been a lot of noise about the social media ban, but let's talk to some educational stakeholders who are really following what is happening on the ground.

Hosted by Clare Mackie and featuring, Daniel Donahoo, Head of Projects at Project Rockit, Darcey, 15 year old student from Project Rockit's Youth Collective, Jacqueline Manison, President of Digital Learning and Teaching Victoria and Kirsty Watts, Head of Technology at Kilvington Grammar School

Unlocking your full potential in education requires more than just subject matter expertise; it requires a connected professional ecosystem. Whether you are a classroom teacher, a department head, a researcher, a freelancer, or a curriculum specialist in the corporate or non-profit sectors, your network is your most valuable asset for growth, influence, and opportunity.

This workshop, run by Ayesha Umar, is designed to help you identify the right networking opportunities and implement practical strategies to elevate your career.

The K-12 CONSULTING CHEAT CODE: A Proven Playbook for More Income, Impact and Independence

Join Tom Schimmer and Natalie Vardabasso, former education leaders turned full-time speakers, consultants, and authors, for a powerful LIVE 60-minute workshop to kickstart your journey into becoming a successful K–12 consultant.

Together they have published 11 books, worked in 26 countries, and launched groundbreaking professional learning initiatives that have impacted the lives of thousands of students. They will walk you through a proven 3-step process that has been the secret to their success.

In this webinar, Kelly will discuss practical strategies for businesses and freelancers who are trying to get their products into schools. She will cover the complexities of reaching your end-user customer in the school, purchasing and approval processes and marketing strategies for building awareness and making sales.

This workshop explores the shift from print to digital products, emphasizing agile workflows, clear communication with tech teams, evolving roles and key characteristics of great digital products. Participants will learn essential terminology, roles and best practice for working with tech teams. The session also covers strategies for adapting curriculum content for digital delivery. A great workshop for those who will be working with tech teams or want to build a digital curriculum product.

Sharing resources is a great way to ease the constant pressure of creating new materials. But what’s the difference between a resource you can use in your own classroom and one you can confidently share with other schools or even sell? This workshop will provide practical first steps to help you upgrade your content to a standard suitable for a wider audience.

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In this workshop, Alicia Savage draws on cognitive load theory, schema-building and clarity frameworks to show how less can truly be more in curriculum design. Participants will explore practical strategies to streamline lessons and units, reduce teacher workload and student overwhelm and create sustainable curriculum structures grounded in research. Expect real examples, interactive discussion and take-away tools that help shift curriculum from aspirational to actionable.

Finding the right curriculum writer can be a costly process and often feels like searching for a needle in a haystack. Even once hired, many curriculum writers may not be used to working outside a school environment and will need support to transition successfully. In this session, we’ll explore best practices for hiring and onboarding.

The second in the series presented by Dr Josey De Rossi, "What might the AI-assisted classroom look like? A Guide for visionary Classroom Teachers, Curriculum Writers and Subject Matter Experts."

In Workshop 2 Josey will demonstrate how to use AI for nailing metacognitive strategies.

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As dedicated curriculum designers, we constantly strive to ensure our units of work are coherent, knowledge-rich, and aligned with best practices. But in the face of new mandates and limited time, how can we conduct the deep, professional review our materials deserve? This workshop empowers you with a pedagogy-first framework to audit and refine your existing units. It demonstrates how to steer AI as a powerful assistant to perform the heavy analysis, freeing you to focus on what matters most: your expert pedagogical decisions.

Unlock the real power of AI in your workflow.

This session will share tips and tricks to boost productivity, sharpen your prompts, and help you spot when AI is useful – and when it isn’t.

You’ll learn how to break tasks into chunks, quality-check outputs, and use AI for ideation, differentiation, and data analysis. We’ll cover practical workflows, common pitfalls, and why expertise matters more than ever.

Expect to leave with smarter strategies, a stronger workflow, and fresh excitement about what you can do with AI.

The first in the series presented by Dr Josey De Rossi, "What might the AI-assisted classroom look like? A Guide for visionary Classroom Teachers, Curriculum Writers and Subject Matter Experts."

The roll-out of the Victorian Teaching and Learning Model (VTLM 2.0) begs the question, ‘how might AI help our application of this and other new curricula to existing units’?

Agenda: The workshop will cover THREE AI scripts for Google Gemini 2.5 Pro

1. Setting up a 'prompt script' for getting to know the V2 ‘progress maps’ 

2. Prompting Ai to draft a new sequence of Learning Intentions and Success Criteria

3. Adding capabilities progress maps and creating a summative assessment task.

This three hour program offers practical strategies for effective curriculum writing, alignment, leadership, career sustainability, business growth and networking opportunities

Join and gain valuable insights into the evolving curriculum landscape in Australia. This program offers practical strategies for effective curriculum writing, alignment, leadership, career sustainability, business growth and networking opportunities. It’s tailored for all CWAA member types, including writers, teachers, leaders, enterprises, subject consultants, and subject associations.

Artificial Intelligence is transforming education, but it has left many teachers navigating a huge number of edtech tools and promises. How can you be sure which platforms genuinely support student learning and which are just a distraction?

This practical, hands-on workshop moves beyond the hype. It is designed to equip K-12 teachers and curriculum writers with the skills and confidence to proactively manage the impact of AI on classroom assessment.

You Will Leave With:
- A clear, non-technical understanding of how AI models are really trained, demystifying the technology and its capabilities.
- The confidence to lead conversations about AI's role in formative assessment in your school and the right tools to use.
- Practical strategies for using AI to support, not replace, great teaching.

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Narratives abound of students cheating by using AI. But if we rethink it, perhaps there is a way we can get students to do more work, instead of less?

Delivery Method: Online workshop When: Tuesday 7th October, 4:30 -5:30pm AEDT Target Audience: All curriculum stakeholders

Incorporate practical AI strategies to refine and strengthen curriculum putting data at the forefront.

Delivery: Online workshop When: Thu 9th October 2025, 4:30pm - 5:30pm AEDT Target Audience: All curriculum stakeholders

This workshop will equip participants with practical skills to integrate ChatGPT into their professional practice. By exploring key features (Memory for capturing essential organisational context, Canvas for collaborative drafting, Deep Research for evidence-informed writing, Voice Mode for efficient dictation, and Folders for streamlined organisation), participants will develop strategies to enhance productivity and quality in curriculum design. The hands-on format ensures curriculum writers apply these tools directly to their contexts, supporting the Association’s goals of fostering innovation, improving efficiency, and strengthening national capacity in high-quality curriculum development.

Explore how ChatGPT’s features can be used to streamline the planning, drafting, and organisation of curriculum materials.

Experiment with practical, hands-on applications of AI tools to support collaborative writing and evidence-informed decision making.

Evaluate how the integration of ChatGPT aligns with professional standards and contributes to the broader goals of curriculum innovation in Australia.

The use of maths manipulatives can be effectively embedded across all stages of an explicit instruction approach. Explore how to integrate them into daily reviews, modeling, guided practice, and independent practice. Make maths more meaningful for students by using concrete materials to make connections, build conceptual understanding and reasoning. This workshop will showcase a range of manipulatives used across the primary years and ways in which to integrate them into your lessons or the resources you provide.

Delivery Method: Online workshop When: Thursday 30 October, 4:30 -5:30pm AEDT Target Audience: All curriculum stakeholders

This summer, we’re slowing down to skill up!
During the summer break, we will revisit the AI workshops we have run throughout the year.

We will run four sessions throughout the summer, giving the participants a chance to learn new skills, apply and refine.

Take the techniques we’ve explored together and put them into live action.

Brainstorm together how we can apply these skills in our schools, enterprises and to improve our curriculum writing.

It doesn't matter if you attended sessions throughout the year, or these are brand new skills. You are bound to learn something new.

Free for all members.

Book now and we will confirm dates for the four sessions.

Hosted by Nick Rose.

You Will Leave With:

- Increased AI technical ability

- Ideas about how these skills can benefit your school, classroom, curriculum or organisation

- Confidence to try new things.