Ol Lida Meri 2

All Women Lead

EDUCATOR PROFESSIONAL LEARNING

PASS GOALS:

Educators and students build leadership skills and use student-centred and project-based learning approaches to improve educational outcomes
Educators in nominated secondary schools deliver an enhanced STEM curriculum
Positive understanding and relationships between PNG and Australia

target Groups:

Female PNG school leaders, provincial education leaders and National Department of Education leaders

DESCRIPTION:

OLM 2 is a professional learning opportunity that is focused on bringing together women in the education sector from across 12 PASS provinces to build their confidence, capacity, and skills as leaders. This women’s only opportunity aims to connect these leaders as a network and as activators of change in their communities by empowering their VOICE, working together as a TRIBE, and leveraging their POWER to lead improvement.

The Ol Lida Meri 2 professional learning activity will establish a network of 40 women leaders made up of 24 school leaders, 12 provincial education leaders and four National Department of Education leaders located in the 12 PASS participating provinces to:

lead co-designed initiatives to promote opportunities for women in education;
enhance digital literacy through online collaboration; and
build women’s confidence to lead improvement initiatives within their province and beyond.

Ol Lida Meri 2 is specifically designed to support women leaders through a blended learning activity that builds on PASS Pilot Phase courses including Leading Learning and Ol Lida Meri 1.

LEAD:

Anna Antonijevic is a leadership consultant and professional learning designer and Founder and Director of Deeper Futures. She works with educators, policy makers and school leadership teams to challenge and empower purposeful processes that generate clarity, depth and sustainability of effective transformation. Anna’s reputation as an education innovator has enabled her to lead large-scale innovation, action research and change projects across the education sector to inspire the redesign of adaptive learning systems. Anna grew up in Papua New Guinea. Follow Anna on Twitter and/or connect with her on LinkedIn.

Ol Lida Meri 2 will be co-facilitated by Pauline Suvi, PASS participant and Science Department Head at Sogeri National School of Excellence. Follow Pauline on LinkedIn.

Specialist and Guest Speakers:

Sophia-Joy Soli
STEM Specialist

Louisa Rennie
Leadership Specialist

Ipul Powesu
GEDSI Specialist

Mary Coverdale
Keynote

Dame Carol Kidu
Female Politician

PROGRAM DETAILS:

Ol Lida Meri 2 involves a four-day face-to-face program in Port Moresby as part of PNG’s National In-Service Week followed by a series of online, facilitated, synchronous workshops to progress projects and share learnings and actions using Google Meets.

The content of Ol Lida Meri face-to-face workshops in Port Moresby will be focused on:

Day 1: Your Tribe, Voice and Power! – Designing and leading in online and digital spaces.
Day 2: Digital Skills Builder – Understanding your leadership.
Day 3: Designing for Women – Designing projects focused on women and girls in education.
Day 4: Project Pitching – Pitching OLM partnership project plans.

The online, synchronous Network Meets throughout August, September and October will provide opportunities for participants to check-in regarding the development of their projects with either an Inclusion, STEM or Leadership theme and grow the professional learning community. In November 2022, the OLM Network will gather for an online culmination event to celebrate and showcase project achievements as well as plan for sustainability in 2023 and beyond.

What you need:

Access to a laptop
Internet connectivity with data
Access to Google Platforms, WhatsApp and email

EXPECTED LEARNING Areas & OUTCOMES:

By undertaking this professional learning participants will:

increase their knowledge, understanding and leadership of STEM Education, GEDSI (Gender Equality, Disability and Social Inclusion) and Leadership Improvement to progress national and sub-national education priorities
gain knowledge and skills in digital capabilities and learner-centred pedagogies
design and present a project pitch as part of a PNG development program for educators
strengthen PASS capabilities including critical thinking, creative thinking, collaboration, communication, character, intercultural understanding, digital literacy and citizenship – local and global
strengthen English proficiency