School Review and Training

Drawing on years of experience in benchmarking and developing quality in schools, the Alphacrucis team are available to help our partner schools achieve their respective missions.

Often Christian schools exist within a close network of relationships, for example, competing school units or church Boards etc., which may benefit from an “outsider” point of view. For example:

• Appointments of new Principal and/or senior staff e.g. in an advisory or interview panel role, offering experienced school leaders and templates and proformas to be tailored for a range of school types
• Senior executive performance reviews where conflict of interest may be a problem
• Middle management staff conflict where senior leadership wish to distance themselves, or receive objective feedback, or offer an external advocate or “coach” through an issue
• Through the issues arising from school change 
• Routine quality improvement reviews, to provide strategic information for school principals  and boards

Alphacrucis provides both open and confidential strategic and assessment services, and confidential counselling/pastoral care services as objective support or whole school change management processes over a sustained season. Unless Christian schools maintain their Core Business as providers of quality teaching and learning then all other activities are undermined. Christian schools are not called to merely comply with regulations but set the benchmark for excellence. The Centre for Future of Schooling consultancy provides:

• Whole school approaches to pedagogy
• Strategic Planning, creative and critical thinking, and problem-solving initiatives
• Methods for building 21st century skills into the curriculum and through broader school offerings
• Comprehensive school reviews

School Review Services

Many Christian schools are in a position to look back on two decades of successful growth. It is timely to do a stocktake of how well the original vision and mission are tracking… How well is the missional mandate being outworked? What is the spiritual heartbeat of the school? What legacy are alumni now leaving?
Alphacrucis Centre for the Future of Schooling offers custom designed indicators and accountability proformas:

• Careful scoping with Principals and Boards
• A tested expert peer review model
• A mixed method approach:
  • Extensive parent, staff and student qualitative surveys
  • 40 plus quantitative interviews of staff and students
  • Focus groups and stakeholder feedback and consultation
  • Multiple cultural events observations
  • Artefact analysis e.g. school curricula, publications and websites
• Review of school documentation by expert panellists
• Review Report, Recommendations and extensive data pack.

Training & Mentoring Services

The lens through which teachers are presenting the “Christian worldview” curriculum is filtered through the teacher’s own spiritual journey and relationship with God at any one time. Alphacrucis’ Centre for Future School offers:

• Executive transition and career mentoring services
• "Staff 360" reviews and assessments
• Spiritual formation and development for teaching and non teaching staff
• Exploration of “difficult conversations” between Christians
• A range of curriculum models for the embedding of Christian worldview within the curriculum
• A whole school development in scope and sequence for Christian worldview practice

We're Here for You

Interested in involving CFS staff in helping with your strategic and staffing needs? Contact us at cfs@ac.edu.au.