Innovation Design Lab for Learning

The Innovation Design Lab for Learning is ISV’s learning hub.

The Design Lab creates and embeds the best research and evidence-based experiences with leading local and global partners. We provide opportunities to consolidate core skills, deepen your understanding of contemporary learning and give you the space to be part of emerging practice.

Experience the benefits of the Design Lab in the Development Centre at our offices in West Melbourne, online through isLearn or with customised professional learning to support your school’s needs.

Our training, conference and meeting rooms are also available for hire.

Professional learning

isLearn: Your professional learning hub

World, class contemporary learning designed with and for Independent schools.

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Plan your professional learning, month by month

Explore upcoming learning events on isLearn.

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Digital Badges

Make your professional learning visible and verified.

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Professional Practice Credentials

Showcase your skills and experience with a professional practice credential from Deakin University.

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Flagship Programs: Start your learning journey

Whether you’re embarking on a new career in teaching, an experienced educator aspiring towards leadership or an established Principal looking to re-define your learning vision – we have a program to help you stay on top of your game.

Our flagship programs have been developed to guide educators and school leaders through every step of your professional learning journey, including:

  • Teaching and learning
  • Leadership development
  • School transformation.

We collaborate with eminent local and global partners – including AHISA, Deloitte, EnRusk, Feuerstein Institute, Harvard Business School, Project Zero at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, StrategyStory, Wayfinder and more – to provide access to some of the world’s leading academics and education thought leaders.

Start your learning journey here with ISV.

Learning Newshub

17 March 2023

Harvard Executive Series

Unlock with power of core, task and strategy with Dr Elizabeth City from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

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9 March 2023

10 things you wish you knew before you started teaching

There’s no shortage of advice for beginning teachers, so we asked 10 experienced teachers what they wish they knew when they were starting out.

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24 March 2023

Top Reads: Effective behaviour supports, student wellbeing and EPIC moments

This fortnight's top reads from the team at ISV

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Teaching Excellence Program 2023

The Victorian Academy of Teaching and Leadership Teaching Excellence Program (TEP) is for highly skilled teachers from government, Catholic and Independent schools across Victoria.

Developed in collaboration with representatives from each sector, the program seeks to strengthen and extend evidence-based teacher practice across the state for teachers in all school settings.

Through the Teaching Excellence Program teachers will have an opportunity to deepen teaching excellence and advance their professional practice through disciplinary knowledge, the science of learning and contemporary pedagogies.

Applications for the next intake in 2023 are now closed.