Professional Development That Changes Daily Practice
Interactive professional learning that helps educators and teams respond better under pressure, understand what sits beneath behaviour and build relationships people can trust.
Every session is shaped around your people, setting and priorities. The learning is practical, emotionally intelligent and designed to be useful when the next difficult moment arrives.
The Workshop Is Not the Finish Line
Professional learning matters most when people can still use it during a rushed morning, a difficult conversation or a moment of emotional escalation.
Understand What Is Happening
Participants learn to notice emotional, relational and motivational patterns before jumping straight to correction or judgement.
Practise a Better Response
Realistic scenarios turn ideas into words, actions and decisions that feel usable in the participant's own environment.
Keep the Learning Moving
Action planning and follow-up support help the team refine strategies after they meet the complexity of real practice.
Choose an Existing Workshop or Build Around Your Need
Each topic can be adapted for schools, early learning services, leadership groups, workplaces, parents or community teams.
Managing the Big Feelings
Understand why emotions escalate and how calm, connected adults can support regulation without excusing unsafe behaviour.
- Emotional development and escalation
- Triggers beneath intense reactions
- Co-regulation and calm boundaries
Blueprint to Taming Tricky Behaviour
Move beyond reactive behaviour management and build predictable, relational environments that reduce avoidable escalation.
- Needs beneath behaviour
- Proactive routines and expectations
- Clear, emotionally intelligent responses
Essential Skills for Every Educator
Strengthen practical skills for responding to defiance, aggression, separation, sharing difficulties and emotional overload.
- Eight practical educator skills
- Prevention before correction
- Consistent responses across teams
Engaging Every Age
Explore why people disengage and how relevance, emotional safety, belonging and purpose influence motivation.
- Neuroscience of disengagement
- Stress, confidence and perceived value
- Practical re-engagement strategies
The Emotional Intelligence Edge
Help teams communicate with more care, build trust, repair tension and remain effective when pressure rises.
- Six human advantage domains
- Trust, influence and accountability
- Safer conversations and repair
Tailored Professional Development
Build professional learning around your current priorities, people, systems and desired outcomes.
- Leadership and staff wellbeing
- Parent partnerships and communication
- Behaviour, engagement or culture needs
Choose the Level of Depth and Support Your Team Needs
Every option includes purposeful planning. The difference is the time available for learning, application and implementation support.
Virtual Insight Session
A focused introduction, leadership briefing or community learning session delivered online.
- 30-minute scoping conversation
- Up to 60 minutes online, including Q&A
- Light contextualisation
- Digital reflection and implementation resource
- Up to 50 participants
Standard PD Workshop
A tailored workshop with practical learning and one implementation review after delivery.
- 45-minute pre-workshop planning meeting
- Tailored examples and agreed outcomes
- Up to 90 minutes interactive delivery, including Q&A
- Digital participant resources
- Practical team action plan
- One 30-minute review within four weeks
- Up to 50 participants
Supported PD Workshop
The Standard Workshop with four weeks of structured support for implementation.
- All Standard Workshop inclusions
- Up to four 30-minute implementation calls
- One call available each week for four weeks
- Support adapting strategies to real situations
- Final implementation summary and next steps
Half-Day Professional Development
More time for discussion, practice, planning and application to the team's context.
- Pre-workshop planning and tailoring
- Up to three hours facilitated learning
- Interactive activities and Q&A
- Digital participant resources
- Team implementation planning
- Two 30-minute follow-up calls
- Up to 50 participants
Full-Day Professional Development
A comprehensive experience that creates shared language, practical skill and clear implementation priorities.
- Detailed planning and contextualisation
- Up to six hours delivery, excluding breaks
- Multiple connected learning modules
- Digital participant resources
- Team implementation planning
- Three 30-minute follow-up calls
- Leadership summary and recommendations
- Up to 50 participants
Not Sure Which Option Fits?
Start with the amount of time your team has and the level of implementation support the learning will need.
Add Support Where It Will Make the Greatest Difference
These options can extend implementation, support a smaller staff group or adapt the learning for parents and the wider community.
Additional Implementation Call
One 30-minute online review to discuss progress, barriers and next steps.
Staff Implementation Clinic
A focused 60-minute online session for up to five staff using deidentified situations, rehearsal and practical problem-solving.
Parent or Community Session
A 60-minute online session that can connect family learning with the language and strategies used by staff.
Additional Content Development
For new modules, organisation-specific resources, curriculum mapping or substantial development beyond included tailoring.
Recommendations Report
A written summary of key themes, implementation priorities, observations and recommended next steps.
Principal Consultant Delivery
Principal Consultant delivery can be requested, subject to availability.
- Standard Workshop: add $250 + GST
- Half-Day: add $500 + GST
- Full-Day: add $750 + GST
Clear Pricing for Larger Groups
- Standard pricing includes up to 50 participants
- 51 to 100 participants: add $300 + GST
- More than 100 participants: cost on application
Brisbane Based, Australia Wide
Travel, parking, flights and accommodation may be quoted separately when delivery occurs outside the facilitator's local metropolitan area.
A Clear Process With No Generic Delivery
The process begins with the people and pressures in your environment, not a slide deck delivered the same way everywhere.
Professional development is delivered by an experienced Not Just A Teacher Education facilitator using NJATE-developed content, resources and quality standards.
Understand the Context
We discuss the team, current pressures, participant needs and the outcomes you want the learning to support.
Tailor the Learning
Examples, language, activities and implementation priorities are refined for your setting.
Deliver and Practise
Participants explore the ideas, apply them to realistic situations and leave with practical next steps.
Review Implementation
Where included, follow-up support helps the team adjust strategies after using them in real practice.
Common Questions About Professional Development
Can the session be tailored to our setting?
Yes. Every package includes a level of planning and contextualisation. Substantial new content development may be quoted separately.
Can workshops be delivered online?
Yes. Virtual Insight Sessions are online by design. Standard, Supported, Half-Day and some Full-Day options may also be delivered online when the format suits the learning outcomes.
Is the Q&A included within the delivery time?
Yes. Q&A is included within the stated session duration unless a different arrangement is confirmed in the proposal.
What does four weeks of support mean?
The Supported Workshop includes up to four 30-minute video calls, with one call available each week for four weeks. Unused calls do not roll over beyond the support period.
Who delivers the session?
Sessions are delivered by an experienced Not Just A Teacher Education facilitator using NJATE-developed content and quality standards. Principal Consultant delivery can be requested for an additional fee, subject to availability.
Are resources included?
Digital participant and implementation resources are included as listed within each package. Printed resources, custom workbooks or substantial organisation-specific development may be quoted separately.
Do you work outside Brisbane?
Yes. Not Just A Teacher Education is based in Brisbane and works Australia wide. Travel, parking, flights and accommodation may be quoted separately.
Can we build professional development into an annual partnership?
Yes. The NJATE Impact Partner Program includes professional development, implementation support and partner benefits across a 12-month period.
Give Your Team Learning They Can Use in the Moments That Matter
Tell us what your team is facing. We will help you choose the right topic, format and level of implementation support.
All prices are in Australian dollars and exclude GST. Delivery is subject to availability and a confirmed service agreement.