Director of Teaching, Learning and Innovation
Employment
Full time, Permanent
Subject
General Teaching
Sector
Independent
Teaching level
K12
Closing date
7 October 2026
Posted 8 Sep 2026
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School type
Co-educational
Year range
Prep-12
School staff (FTE)
117.3
72.7 teaching · 44.6 non-teaching
Students per teacher
12.5:1
teaching FTE basis
Total enrolments
911
Language other than English
29%
Girls vs boys
466 girls · 445 boys
Socio-educational background
Above the Australian average
Source: ACARA My School data
Role description
Help us reimagine what excellent Christian education can be.
Do you believe Christian education should be among the most intellectually rigorous, deeply engaging, innovative and transformative education we can offer?
Do you think deeply about what it means to teach and learn from a distinctively Christian worldview, not as something added to education, but something that shapes our understanding of knowledge, truth, purpose, people and the very reason we educate?
And are you endlessly curious about what great learning could become?
Do you believe students need strong foundations AND opportunities to inquire, create, solve, design and apply? Do you practice explicit teaching AND applied learning?
Do you ask not only what should we teach but what actually makes learning powerful, memorable and transformative?
Do you look at what schools and education systems in Finland, Denmark, the Netherlands, Canada and beyond are doing, not because we should copy them, but because you are curious about what we might learn, critically examine and thoughtfully reimagine within a Christian educational context?
Can you champion evidence-informed practice while still asking whether the way we have always done things is the best way forward?
Do you embrace technology, while understanding that technology is a tool for learning, not the learning itself?
Are you excited by the extraordinary possibilities of AI in education, while being prepared to think deeply and critically about its impact on pedagogy, assessment, relationships, human agency, and, from a Christian understanding of what it means…