Master in School Leadership

Student Testimony

Lexia Knight
Master in School Leadership
Graduated 2006

“We are a very multi-cultural school and there are many challenges with our students’ interrupted schooling. This course gave me the tools to become a leader in a school."

"It was so challenging and so different to what I expected it to be. Leadership is a complex creature, and there are so many facets to leading a school effectively."

Lexia Knight leads the Senior School Team at Westall Secondary College

The Master in School Leadership is designed to meet the needs of teachers from all sectors who aspire to school principal appointments. You will expand your worldview through organisational and environmental perspectives as you develop managerial and technical proficiencies. The course will deepen your awareness of self and others. You will also experience mentor and network support for a professional project of your own design.

The Master in School Leadership enables you to face the many challenges of this complex and rewarding work, by building your:

• confidence
• skill
• knowledge
• professional connections, and
• emotional preparedness

Throughout the Master in School Leadership you will:

• extend your personal growth
• complement your professional growth
• strengthen your scholarship
• develop relationships with other leader practitioners
• learn to manage by putting theory into practice
• establish an ethic of leadership that is grounded in respect, care and professional support for yourself and others
• develop your school, community, region and profession

For information on course structure and units, and contact details, visit the Master in School Leadership handbook entry