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A tailored 3-part professional learning program co-designed by the Department of Education (the department) and the Victorian Academy of Teaching and Leadership (the Academy). The program aims to empower Victorian women school principals and assistant principals to lead with strategic insight, intercultural understanding and global engagement.

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This comprehensive leadership program supports the goals of Victoria’s India Strategy: Our Shared Future 2025-30 by strengthening connections, enhancing economic cooperation, and deepening education and innovation ties between Victoria and India.

Benefits for school staff

The program supports schools to:

  • empower women education leaders by strengthening their confidence, skills, and leadership identity in line with the Academy’s Leadership Excellence Framework
  • build leadership capacity to integrate intercultural, global, and inclusive practices through the Global Learning and Engagement (GL&E) Framework
  • foster GL&E-related school improvement through a school-based inquiry focus
  • develop leadership practices across the system that prioritise equity, global awareness, and inclusive education
  • facilitate the strategic sharing of learning through school and network engagement, including presentations and system-wide collaboration.

Program structure

The program is structured in multiple parts, building progressively from self-awareness to system-level impact.

It includes the following components:

  1. Women Leading in Education (Part A): The first part of the program, delivered by the Academy, is a foundational leadership program. It aims to support participants to build a strong leadership identity, develop a clear vision, increase confidence, and enhance their influence within the education system.
  2. Women Leading Globally Engaged Schools (Part B): This component builds intercultural understanding through unpacking the Global Learning and Engagement Framework. It focuses on embedding intercultural capability and global citizenship to develop system-wide leadership practices that reflect equity, global awareness, and inclusive education goals. Participants undertake an inquiry focus aligned with a specific dimension of the framework and develop an approach to embedding this into their school improvement plan.
  3. Women Leading: In-country Engagement - India 2026 (Part C): In the final component of the program, select participants have the opportunity to deepen their professional learning through an immersive experience in  India. This experience offers meaningful insights into other education systems and allows participants to broaden their inquiry focus and build intercultural knowledge and skills. This component includes workshops and school visits where Victorian and Indian educators explore pedagogical approaches to academic excellence, student wellbeing and global engagement.

Overall, the program has moved our global learning priority from aspiration to action by establishing relationships and a clearer pathway for sustainable international engagement. It deepened our understanding of how global citizenship, sustainability, and intercultural understanding can be embedded within curriculum and whole-school culture.

- Principal, Mount Clear College

This program reinforced that intercultural competence is not about “adding” global elements to the curriculum, but about embedding respect, perspective-taking, and cultural responsiveness into the fabric of a school.

- Assistant Principal, Coral Park Primary

The immersion provided authentic access to diverse educational settings and enabled reflection on the relationship between culture, equity, engagement and excellence. It challenged and extended my leadership thinking in ways that will have sustained impact on my leadership practice.

- Principal, Carranballac P-9 College

Key dates

Expression of interest to participate in the program is currently closed.

Victorian schools wanting to learn more about leading a globally engaged school can complete the Global Learning and Engagement Framework eLearn module.

If you have any questions, please contact: global.learning@education.vic.gov.au

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