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Strengths-based strategies to support staff and enrich school culture.
Educators shape more than learning — they shape lives. Empowered Education workshops - based on the strategies of UN endorsed The Virtues Project™ - equip staff with practical, classroom-ready approaches that build connection, empathy and resilience across school communities.
Designed for teachers, these workshops help staff bring out the best in themselves and their students by creating a shared language of strengths. The result? A more connected classroom and a culture where students are seen, supported, and inspired to grow.
Schools can also extend this approach through staff-wide implementation and parent workshops, creating consistency and connection between school and home.
Book a Virtues Crew professional development program for your staff today and start building a culture of character at your school.
The Virtues Crew's Professional Learning workshops will unlock 5 key strategies that help education staff to:
An evaluation summary report can be provided at the conclusion of the program to capture immediate outcomes.
This program directly addresses several focus areas of the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers (APST).
We know your time is precious — and your lessons are already full. Empowered Education workshops don’t ask you to add more, but to amplify what you’re already doing. The strategies complement your existing approach, helping strengthen class management, build rapport, and support problem solving in real time.
No extra worksheets, no added curriculum — just simple, practical tools to deepen the impact of your relational work as a teacher. (Though you might be inspired to try a few new routines!)
Programs offer a combination of theory-based and experiential learning. The interactive discussions and activities included in the program are core to the experience and effectiveness.
Participants develop an understanding of the key strategies of virtues-based methods, explore how these apply in their context with their peers, and finally practice using them to ensure the experience is practical beyond the workshop's completion.
Participants will walk away feeling inspired - not only by the content, but by each other.
The main program totals approximately 12 hours of workshops - including breaks as applicable - flexibly divided into multiple sessions to suit your staff's professional learning schedule, e.g. 2 full days (consecutive or separate), or shorter weekly sessions.
Given the interactive nature of sessions, this program is best suited to groups of between up to 30 participants at a time (negotiable). Larger schools may consider running multiple programs, or selecting a core group of champions to lead others (e.g. School Leadership, Year Level Coordinators, etc.)
A free refresher session is also available to staff who participated in the main program (within 2 years of completion).
Where it is not possible for all staff to complete the training program, an abridged introductory presentation can be provided for the larger staff cohort. This service is delivered in conjunction with some staff undertaking the main program. Its purpose is to assist staff to understand the key principles that the main program participants will be championing within the school.
Refresher sessions (for staff who have previously completed the main program) similarly provide a summary of the key virtues-based strategies and their practices.
The abridged introduction & refresher sessions run for approximately 60-90 mins each.
Looking to engage parents in your school?
Understanding that students learn best when lessons are reinforced at home, programs for parents are also available. These follow a similar format to the staff program, but tailored to draw on examples within the home context.
Schools wishing to offer this program to parents may choose to fund the program free of charge to parents, or alternatively invite parents to participate through self-funded options.
It is a fantastic way to engage parents in your school community and align parent & teacher approaches to communicating with children.
Don't hesitate to reach out for more information and with any questions you may have. You'll get a reply as soon as possible.