Middle Leader Training Program. Standard 2: Enabling Knowledge and skills - Building Relational Trust
FOCUS:
This session will introduce staff to the AITSL Middle Leader's Enabling Knowledge and skills, with a focus on: Relational Trust.
OVERVIEW:
Excellent educational leaders need to be able to build a culture of trust to enable the collaborative work of complex problem solving, which is difficult and complex work. The challenge of improvement can then be experienced as shared, well supported, and competently led. Strong capability in building trust encourages a culture of justifiable risk taking, robust dialogue, collective responsibility and reciprocal accountability.
There is compelling evidence the level of trust between the members of a school community makes an important difference to the way they work together and to the social and academic progress of students. In schools with higher levels of trust, teachers experience a stronger sense of professional community and are more willing to innovate and take risks. In addition, students in high trust schools make more academic and social progress than students in otherwise similar but low trust school.
Relational trust can be defined as a type of relationship in which there is a willingness to accept risk and vulnerability because the other person is judged as being respectful, as having personal regard for others, as acting with integrity, and as competent in their role.
LOCATION:
Middle School library
PRESENTER:
Kim Doherty
- Date:
- Friday, August 22, 2025
- Time:
- 3:00pm - 4:00pm
- Time Zone:
- Sydney, Melbourne (change)
- Location:
- Highton Middle School library research room
- Campus:
- All campuses
- Audience:
- All teaching staff School leaders
- Categories:
- Our Thriving Community
- Attachments: