The Instructional Lead Fellowship is a 3-day program for Masterclass alumni and school leaders (Principal and/or Deputy/Associate Principal), who as a team, seek to build their capacity to embed and sustain high-impact instruction, and establish/refine instructional coaching in their school.

Working from a robust research base, the program will have your school team enhancing their skills in designing impactful professional learning for staff, building an effective coaching framework and strengthening guaranteed and viable curriculum to enhance student learning.

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Instructional Lead Fellowship participants will:

Build their instructional coaching capacity, including through video moderation.

Select a suite of resources for use in coaching and PL at school.

Identify opportunities to strengthen the creation and embedding of low-variance curriculum.

Develop and implement a simple targeted action plan to drive success back at school.

Apply the latest evidence in leading effective professional development in schools.

Review case studies of high-performing schools and identify elements to sustain high-impact instruction.

Create a network of experienced alumni across high-performing schools.

“This was a fantastic series of workshops. It provided opportunities for valuable conversations and direction for our school to move forward in improving teacher instruction and student outcomes. Thank you so much.”
- Christopher Orsini, Catholic Regional College, St Albans

2026 Perth Cohort

The Fellowship will run over three workshop days from 8.30am-3.30pm. The dates of the workshops in Perth in 2026 are as follows:

Practical Session
Term/Week
Date
Location
Practical Session 1
Term 1, Week 7
Thursday, 19 March
City of Perth SLSC
Practical Session 2
Term 2, Week 4
Wednesday, 13 May
City of Perth SLSC
Practical Session 3
Term 3, Week 2
Tuesday, 28 July
City of Perth SLSC

2026 Online Cohort

The online Fellowship will run over three workshop days from 7.30am-2.30pm (AWST). The dates of the online workshops in 2026 are as follows:

Practical Session
Term/Week
Date
Practical Session 1
Term 2, Week 5
Thursday, 21 May
Practical Session 2
Term 3, Week 1
Wednesday, 22 July
Practical Session 3
Term 3, Week 7
Monday, 31 August
“The opportunity to plan for next year and the chance to talk to presenters about our school context was so valuable. In particular, looking at the mechanisms of effective Professional Development, roadblocks of instructional coaching, strategies to overcome these roadblocks and how to improve our Daily Review.”
Kelly Forder
Deputy Principal, North Mandurah Primary School
"Even though I was doing lots of aspects in lessons previous to joining the Teach Well courses, the Masterclass Course helped me add another layer to my teaching and improved outcomes for my students. And the Instructional Lead Fellowship is reassuring me that leading my team on this learning journey is the way forward."
Lisa Ruiz
Program Coordinator, Butler College
“It was extremely informative in moving forward in creating change amongst the staff at my school. Empowering.”
Stacy Woodman
Deputy Principal, Mount Tarcoola Primary School