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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
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.
Teaching and learning
Beginning Teachers Program
AUDIENCE
Early career teachers
FOCUS
Teaching practice
Feuerstein
AUDIENCE
Educators
FOCUS
Learning, cognition
Making Thinking Routine
AUDIENCE
Educators
FOCUS
Thinking routines
National Teacher Certification (HALT)
AUDIENCE
High performing teachers
FOCUS
Teacher certification
Teacher Fellowship Program
AUDIENCE
Middle or aspiring leaders
FOCUS
Teacher inquiry, classroom practice, leadership
Wayfinder
AUDIENCE
Educators, wellbeing leaders
FOCUS
Student wellbeing
Leadership
Aspiring Principals
AUDIENCE
Deputy Principals, Senior Leaders, AHISA Aspirant Members
FOCUS
Leadership development
Harvard Executive Series
AUDIENCE
Principals, Deputy Principals, Senior Leaders, Curriculum Leaders
FOCUS
Strategy, Leadership, Instructional Core, Task
Leadership Mindsets: Amplifying Teacher Leadership
AUDIENCE
Teachers and early stage leaders
FOCUS
Teacher leadership
Leading from the Centre
AUDIENCE
Middle and Senior Leaders
FOCUS
Leadership development
Principals Executive Network
AUDIENCE
New Principals
FOCUS
Leadership development
Courageous Principals
AUDIENCE
Principals
FOCUS
Leadership
Principals Connect
AUDIENCE
Principals
FOCUS
Leadership, vision
Learning Innovations Laboratory – Education (LILAed)
AUDIENCE
Principals
FOCUS
Adaptive cultures, school leadership
Principals’ Leadership Academy
AUDIENCE
Principals
FOCUS
Leadership
Principal Learning Forums
AUDIENCE
Principals
FOCUS
Current issues facing Independent Principals
Leading Learning that Matters
AUDIENCE
Established Principals
FOCUS
Leadership, vision, research
School transformation
Leading Sustainable Change
AUDIENCE
School leaders, educators
FOCUS
Innovation, change
Learning Innovations Laboratory – Education (LILAed)
AUDIENCE
Principals
FOCUS
Adaptive cultures, school leadership
StrategyStory for Schools
AUDIENCE
School leadership teams (5-6 people)
FOCUS
Strategy
The Lab: A space to innovate
AUDIENCE
School Leaders & Educators
FOCUS
Innovation / Design thinking
Vision and Values
AUDIENCE
School leaders, Board members, Governing bodies
FOCUS
School vision, values and strategy
Effective Governance Practice
AUDIENCE
School Board and Council Members
FOCUS
School Board Governance
Learning Newshub
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.