Become a Partner School

Become a Partner, harness 40 years of educational experience, gain access to the Keller Education Partner Website, and experience the change.

Enjoy regular professional development through Zoom discussions, organised and interactive webinars, teacher’s manuals, lesson plan ideas, motivational posters, our CPTD Point Tracking system, plenty of exciting video content, and much more... all at a click of a button!

How it Works

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We will help you select the perfect Topic

Want more? Try the ‘Add-Ons’

Experience world class professional development

The Topics

The 6 Keller Partnership Topics for 2022 are listed below.
Click on a topic which interests you to find out more.

It's all about
The Teacher

Classroom Management
that Works

Social Emotional
Learning

Growing
Gritty Minds

The Behaviour
Code

The Future of
Smart

It’s all about
The Teacher

In Brief

The difference between schools that thrive and schools that wilt during this season of rapid change depends on the ability to make the necessary changes. Change is hard, but essential. It requires both comfort and capacity. Most schools are deficient in innovation DNA. By empowering the teacher to make and implement changes, schools will not only survive, but thrive in the 21st century.

Urgently identify the ‘North Star’ for each student - Purpose Driven Learning.
Recognise that student competence outweighs subject mastery.
Use the Three Step process of getting children to thrive.
Implement playful teaching for adult success.
Instil a differentiated approach in their high performing classrooms. One size does not fit all.
Understand why brain plasticity can change student behaviour.
Catch students at their BEST.
Monitor, Manage and Improve their physical and mental wellbeing. Teachers are only as good as their health.

Classroom Management
That Works

In Brief

Teaching is building. We are constructing competent, confident, capable, calm adult characters who will add value as citizens in society. The process of the construction is both an art and a science. In classroom management that works, the goal is to develop the three executive functions of Inhibitory Control (managing time, priorities and self-control), Cognitive flexibility (the ability to think deeply on a range of topics and see different problem-solving perspectives) and Working Memory (the capacity to draw on previous knowledge and massage it with new incoming information to grow different memories). We achieve this through practical methodologies and approaches to ensure the classroom is transformed into an optimum learning environment.

Recognise the power of relationship in the classroom and build secure, consistent, warm relationships with ALL students.
Create an optimum learning environment where the climate reflects opportunity for flow and limits/removes stress at all costs.
Work with students to set ferocious goals, review goals and reframe these goals.
Regulate the classroom environment by ensuring that every child knows that they are unique. Adapt teaching techniques and lesson planning to teach a class of individuals.
Embrace the power of communication through immediate feedback.
Use authority (discipline) to enhance learning, ensure students know the boundaries and feel a sense of belonging in the classroom while understanding how the brain learns best.
Use teaching strategies to develop the THREE Executive Functions - Inhibitory Control, Working Memory and Cognitive Flexibility.
Bring enjoyment and play into the classroom so that students can thrive.

Social Emotional
Learning

In Brief

There are no good feelings or bad feelings. Emotions are just data. This data dramatically affects the way humans respond. When teachers are trained in Emotional Intelligence (Ei) and embed the knowledge in every subject, students soon learn the power of recognising emotions, giving them a name, mastering the art of regulating the effect it has on their lives and using emotions to improve their own and others’ wellbeing.

Recognise that managing emotions is like learning to surf. It requires training and practice.
Teach students how their brains process sensory input.
Know the difference between Reacting vs Responding.
Meet RURU: The emotional elephant. This involves learning to Recognise, Understand, Regulate and Use emotions.
Name the core emotions, and build emotional literacy.
Apply the EXCEL
Identify the three levels of the human brain & explain the Handy Model of the Brain.
Recognise the Butt - Gut - Heart - Brain connection.
Implement CARE circles / Mentor groups with students.

Growing
Gritty Minds

In Brief

Goethe said, “Everything is hard before it is easy!” That quote seems to sum up the reality that the human brain is hardwired for struggle and when teachers allow students to fail and try again, mastery is achieved as a result of a combination of passion and resilience. In an age where parents try to make the road to success smooth, students are losing out on an essential ingredient in their success sojourn - GRIT. The package takes educators on a journey into mindsets, the power of choice, the role of relationships, and the damage caused by anxiety when failure isn’t encouraged as a lifeskill.

Develop Grit in the classroom and the school as a whole through classroom mindset change, celebration of struggle, effort and skill over individual achievement.
Understand their own mindset, the mindsets of students in their classrooms and how to rewire the brain to be Growth Mindset inclined.
Make use of the Yet/Not Yet system of formative assessment to build resilience, self belief and to develop growth mindsets.
Explore the different types of Grit prevalent in the classroom, and develop strategies to combat them when necessary.
Design Gritty thinking spaces which promote resilience, ferocious goal setting, reviews, feedback and setting new goals.
Develop student autonomy in goal setting and demonstrating competence.

The Behaviour
Code

In Brief

Equip your school with effective strategies to address challenging behaviour in students. The Behaviour Code delves into the science behind behaviour, providing a comprehensive understanding of its psychological and neurological factors. Gain valuable insights into why these behaviours occur and learn how to address them. Teachers and School Leaders, shape your students' behaviour with confidence.

Recognise that bad behaviour is a disability and students with this disability are deeply wounded.
Acknowledge that trauma is deep and it requires a set of skills by educators, who are often also traumatised themselves, to manage the behaviour.
Create a Profile on each child who displays behaviour challenges so that the student's history (biography) is understood by every educator.
Establish a Secure Base and Safe Haven for all students in the school where all can find support when needed.
Explore the attachment theory and the impact that childhood atypical attachment has on withdrawn and oppositional students as well as those who present with sexualised behaviour and deep anxiety.
Comprehend the reality a child's biography determines their biology and recognise the impact of stress and anxiety on adult health.
Learn strategies to manage atypical behaviour within a classroom environment.
Build strong connections with students, even when their childhood trauma prevents them from reciprocating.
Dramatically improve their understanding of behaviour and the role they play is building student character and citizenship.

The Future of
Smart

In Brief

Shift from "Are you SMART?" to "How are you SMART?" starting from Early Childhood Development (ECD).

Simple activities like playing with a trinomial cube toy lay the groundwork for future algebraic formulas. Cultivating values like grace and courtesy builds essential social skills. By linking science, social sciences, art, drama, and culture, we wire young brains for interdisciplinary learning. Join us on a practical journey to explore and unleash the unique potential of every child.

Shift our language about children from "Being SMART" to identifying and celebrating "How they are SMART".
Acknowledge our narrow view of smartness and readiness and explore the science of success in ECD and how normal children develop at different rates.
Critically assess the measuring system applied in your school against the science of learning and development.
Introduce awe and wonder back into each moment of ECD and prepare ECD bodies for formal schooling through play.
Create strong roots for each child by designing activities that make use of the content as the vehicle and the "soft skills" as the true indicators for success.
Apply the Global 6C's for ECD in order to plan activities that will grow ECD students into competent, capable and confident children, ready for formal schooling.

What’s Included?

Once you’ve selected your Topic for the year, you
will receive a wide range of benefits.

Introductory
Presentation

Quarterly
Webinars

SACE
Accredited

Automatic CPTD
Point Tracking
System

Dynamic Parenting
Videos

Join our Teacher
Education
Network (TEN)

Ongoing support
from the
Keller Team

Latest International Conference Summary (Website)

Annual Conference
Summary

PEDTalks and
Podcast Access

Motivational
Posters

Mind-Brain-Education-Science-Teachers-Manual

The Teacher’s
Manual

Monthly Smart
Moves Edu-Mag

Classroom
Application Ideas

Regular Check in
on Progress

Become a
“Keller School”

The Add-Ons

Want to take your training to the next level? We offer a number of additional training solutions for schools. Click on an option below to find out more.

Face to Face
Workshops

Leadership
Coaching

Teacher
Bootcamp

Virtual School
Parent Evening

Face to Face Workshops

Whole Staff Training

Ranging from 90 minutes to 3 hours, a Keller staff member will present a dynamic workshop at your school, either to enhance your selected annual Partnership topic, or give insight on another topic of your choice, such as - Zip the Crocodile, Mind Right Body Right, Trauma Informed Schools, Teaching Struggling Brains, The Power of Celebrating, or Driven - Motivation and Accountability.

Our sessions are highly interactive, with activities, discussions, and practical ideas.

Leadership Coaching

School Management Teams, Principals, Prefect Groups and more

The Keller Leadership Series “Leading Along the Path of Uncertainty” is designed to encourage and guide School Management Teams, Prefects or Matric students.
The 75-minute Zoom call or in-person workshop may include up to 10 Leadership Team members.

There are seven sessions available:

Conflict Management
Leading as a Team
Vital Lessons in Leadership
Care to Dare
Leadership - The Opposite of Controlling People
Leadership is Affirmation
Feedback - Recognition for Performance

Teacher Bootcamps

Novice Teachers - Master Teachers

We’ll turn your novice teachers into master teachers! Interactive Online Training sessions for new teachers, or those struggling with a variety of classroom management challenges such as behaviour, classroom discipline, relationship development, and unpacking the ‘uncommon sense’ of teaching. Four 60-minute sessions available, dates of which are set each year.

Quarter 1 Topic: The Highway to Learning (06 March 2024)
How learners can take different routes to the same destination. It's about finding their route and supporting them to reach their goals.

Quarter 2 Topic: Building Respectful Relationships - Ethics in Education (05 June 2024)
How body language and culture affects the formation of trusted, respectful relationships.

Quarter 3 Topic: The Power of Collaboration (11 September 2024)
Collaboration is one of the six global competencies required in the world of work. Using insights from the OECD Video Study, delegates will learn how to use group work effectively to improve engagement, inspire curiosity and improve retention.

Quarter 4 Topic: Energisers to Accelerate Learning (13 November 2024)
Because attention requires so much energy, the brain often relies on a trip switch to shut down. We constantly tell students to pay attention. Re-ignite.

Virtual School Parent Evening

Empowering parents to raise competent, capable, confident children

These 75-minute, live webinars provide parents with wonderful insight, gentle guidance, and practical ideas, as they navigate the challenges of parenthood. Up to 495 logins/attendees per webinar.

Available topics include: Rock Solid Foundation, Brilliant Kids, Raising Teens Raising Tweens, Devices & Development, Trauma Informed Schools, Anxiety Free Homes, and Zip the Crocodile.

Contact us for the topic descriptions.

Become a Partner School

How it Works

The Topics

It's all about The Teacher

Classroom Management that Works

Social Emotional Learning

Growing Gritty Minds

The Behaviour Code

The Future of Smart

It’s all about The Teacher

In Brief

Classroom Management That Works

In Brief

Social Emotional Learning

In Brief

Growing Gritty Minds

In Brief

The Behaviour Code

In Brief

The Future of Smart

In Brief

What’s Included?

IntroductoryPresentation

QuarterlyWebinars

SACE Accredited

Automatic CPTDPoint TrackingSystem

Dynamic ParentingVideos

Join our TeacherEducationNetwork (TEN)

Ongoing supportfrom theKeller Team

Annual ConferenceSummary

PEDTalks andPodcast Access

MotivationalPosters

The Teacher’sManual

Monthly SmartMoves Edu-Mag

ClassroomApplication Ideas

Regular Check inon Progress

Become a “Keller School”

The Add-Ons

Face to Face Workshops

LeadershipCoaching

TeacherBootcamp

Virtual School Parent Evening

Face to Face Workshops

Leadership Coaching

Teacher Bootcamps

Virtual School Parent Evening

It's all about
The Teacher

Classroom Management
that Works

Social Emotional
Learning

Growing
Gritty Minds

The Behaviour
Code

The Future of
Smart

It’s all about
The Teacher

Classroom Management
That Works

Social Emotional
Learning

Growing
Gritty Minds

The Behaviour
Code

The Future of
Smart

Introductory
Presentation

Quarterly
Webinars

SACE
Accredited

Automatic CPTD
Point Tracking
System

Dynamic Parenting
Videos

Join our Teacher
Education
Network (TEN)

Ongoing support
from the
Keller Team

Annual Conference
Summary

PEDTalks and
Podcast Access

Motivational
Posters

The Teacher’s
Manual

Monthly Smart
Moves Edu-Mag

Classroom
Application Ideas

Regular Check in
on Progress

Become a
“Keller School”

Face to Face
Workshops

Leadership
Coaching

Teacher
Bootcamp

Virtual School
Parent Evening