Free Webinar Healthy Wellbeing is Formative Wellbeing: What Does Success Look Like?
Join Rydr Tracy for a 30-minute session where we’ll explore how Healthy Evaluative Wellbeing Practices can be implemented effectively in your school. Rydr will demonstrate how Life Skills GO streamlines this process by doing the heavy lifting for you, offering actionable, real-time wellbeing data that empowers your staff to take proactive steps for supporting student wellbeing and empowering student voice without disrupting valuable teaching time.
Key takeaways:
- Practical strategies for embedding a formative approach to wellbeing in your existing processes
- A demonstration of how to collect relevant and reliable evidence from student voice
- How to establish early indicators and monitor wellbeing in your school
- How to measure the impact of existing wellbeing programs so you can make informed strategic decisions about next steps
- Unpacking how to segment data for deeper insight at an individual student, class and whole school level
ABOUT OUR EXPERTS
Rydr Tracy is a specialist in evidence-informed practice in educational innovation, with a career focus on strategic change that improves student outcomes. He draws on a rare blend of successful experience in schools, system leadership roles and industry practice – experience that has given him deep understanding of the complexities of the education sector from the classroom to the boardroom and a demonstrated capacity to generate practical recommendations that are grounded in context and evidence.
Core competencies
- child development and learning
- school leadership and system leadership
- use of technology and contemporary pedagogy in teaching and learning
- innovation, product design, program design and reform, particularly in educational settings
- design, implementation and leadership of monitoring and evaluation systems
- training and capacity building in evaluation
strategic stakeholder engagement
Selected experience from NSW Department of Education
Building on a successful 10 years in primary teaching, Rydr excelled in a series of corporate roles in the NSW Department of Education between 2015 and 2021. These culminated in elevation to Director of Strategic Priorities in the Centre for Education Statistics and Evaluation and then Director of Strategic Delivery – Learning Improvement. In these roles he worked effectively to embed evaluative practice as a systemic lever for change, redesigning school improvement processes, setting and monitoring school targets and generating a series of sustainable system reforms.
Selected work examples and achievements as Head of Educational Transformation at Creatable
- Established an innovation and entrepreneurship curriculum for UNICEF Burundi. Phase one of this project generated significant positive results including improved life outcomes for vulnerable peoples living in the poorest nation on earth. This work is now in the process of scaling across East and West Africa.
- Designed the education campaign for Correct the Internet, which is designed to raise awareness of bias in internet algorithms. This included running a not-for-profit campaign that provided education resources and lessons for teachers to foster compassion, imagination, influence and student empowerment.
- Led a working group of industry leaders to establish a skills framework to bridge the gap between industry and schooling. This framework has the endorsement of industry and is supported by a suite of on demand, self-paced, NESA-accredited professional learning and implementation support for school leaders.
- Invited to join the United Nations Global Education Platform Advisory Board.
- In consultation with the Australian Council for Education Research (ACER), produced high level academic White Papers and rubrics and learning tools.
- Produced an evidenced-based blog and podcast unpacking the case for educational transformation.
- Collaborated with UNICEF on innovative education programs that focus on improving life outcomes for children in the world’s poorest countries.