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A Learning Strategy for Wyndham's future

Learning is fundamental to the well-being, prosperity, and sense of belonging of all people. At Wyndham, we strive to create learning opportunities for everyone, by making learning central to everything we do.

Our new Draft Learning Community Strategy 2024-2029 aims to provide a strategic and integrated framework for the creation of a community of lifelong learning and is used as the basis to advocate, facilitate, explore, initiate, and deliver on Wyndham’s learning goals.

The Draft Strategy and Action Plan is designed with consideration for the diversity and experiences of Wyndham’s citizens. It focuses on the current and future learning needs of Indigenous Australians and Wyndham’s culturally and linguistically diverse peoples and takes account of gender diversity in learning and the access and equity needs of people with disability.

We want your feedback on our Draft Strategy before it is finalised and presented to Council for potential adoption in early 2024.

How to get involved

Share your feedback on our Draft Learning Community Strategy 2024-2029. Your feedback will help finalise the Strategy before it is presented to Council for potential adoption in early 2024.

Provide your feedback below before 11:59PM Wednesday 10 January 2024

Four pillars for strengthening learning in Wyndham

Learning Community Strategy 2024-2029 Action Plan

Our new Strategy includes an action plan consisting of a number of different elements.

Underpinning Actions have been identified as either ongoing throughout the life of the Strategy or for completion in Year 1.

The underpinning actions in the Strategy include:

  • Apply a wellbeing lens to all Learning Community Actions – ongoing throughout the Strategy.
  • All Learning Community Actions to contribute to action on environment and climate – ongoing throughout the Strategy.
  • Undertake an audit of possible learning and study spaces, current utilisation and resources required to better ensure accessibility and comfort in learning. Explore the centralisation of information to make it easier to find learning spaces – Refer 4.2.2 Year 1 of the Annual Action Plan.
  • Design and build a clever easy to navigate Portal to provide visibility over learning in Wyndham and enable far-reaching promotion of learning activities – Refer 4.2.2 Year 1 of the Strategy.
  • Explore innovative approaches to reaching deep into communities to provide information and gain feedback – ongoing throughout the Strategy
  • Work with the Smart City Unit to explore the potential for high impact visual promotions of Learning Community events and promote the UNESCO Learning City brand throughout the municipality – Refer 4.2.2 Year 1 of and ongoing throughout the Strategy.
  • Cross promote Council learning events such as those planned and facilitated by Economic Development and Social Inclusion Unit, Seniors Festival and Youth Services initiatives – ongoing throughout the Strategy.
  • Work with Economic Development, Social and Economic Inclusion Unit and Smart Cities to develop a collaborative learning project that forms a case study on integration – ongoing throughout the Strategy.
  • Explore the potential for the Learning Community Strategy to support Council in achieving social benefit objectives– ongoing throughout the Strategy.
  • Work with Smart City Unit to explore simple mechanisms to support the collection of engagement and individual impact data (compliant with privacy and cyber security obligations) – ongoing throughout the Strategy.
  • Work with Smart City Unit to explore opportunities to utilise the data being collected to measure engagement and impact in promoting learning engagement– ongoing throughout the Strategy.

Learning Community Strategy Pillars

Issues and themes for action

2024

2025 - 2029

Responsibilities and Roles

1.0 First Nations 1st

Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP)

1.01 Engage with WRAC to inform the roll out of Learning Community Action Plan

Collaborate with RAP organisations and other like-minded organisations to develop innovative approaches to advance reconciliation

Learning Community Unit (LCU), Reconciliation Lead and WRAC

1.02 Explore the potential for a cultural values assessment of Wyndham with a focus on learning

Undertake actions to promote cultural values assessment

LCU, Bunurong and Wadawurrung Traditional Owners

Recognition of First Nations Culture and Treaty

1.03 Explore internal First Nations training for all WCC staff

Develop online self-paced First Nations training for new staff

WCC Organisational Development Unit,

Reconciliation Lead

1.04 Explore potential for Cultural Awareness events, Cultural Tours on Country

Learning Festival Events focused on increasing recognition of First Nations culture and Treaty. e.g. cultural tours and Stories of Two First Nations Cultures

LCU, Bunurong and Wadawurrung Traditional Owners, Victoria University,

Wunggurrwil Dhurrung,

First Nations Youth Engagement Officer.

Arts, Events and Cultural Venues

1.05 Wyntalk on Treaty, or other outcomes from cultural values assessment

Explore Smart Cities technologies to promote interpretative learning opportunities for significant sites

LCU and

Smart City Unit

Make visible the learning needs of Wyndham’s First Nations people

1.06 Principals’ Breakfast with theme of First Nations services and supports

Foster the development of culturally safe learning spaces across Wyndham

LCU and Principals Network.

Wyndham Libraries

1.07 Promoting library services as welcoming spaces for First Nations people

Implement an ongoing campaign for library services

LCU, WRAC, Wyndham Libraries and Neighbourhood Hubs

1.08 Presentation on Indigital Schools Master Class outcomes

Support delivery of Master Classes

LCU and Wyndham Tech School

2.0 Learning to Learn and Foundation Skills

Language, Literacy, Numeracy and Digital Skills

2.01 Highlight growth in demand for language, literacy, numeracy and digital training in Wyndham for all life stages

Promote the LLN development work being undertaken in the community.

LCU and Wyndham

Neighbourhood Hubs Social and Economic Inclusion Unit

2.02 Support the Early Years “Sharing Stories Help Your Child Learn from Birth” Project

Explore Smart Cities Tech to share stories more broadly

Wyndham Libraries Children’s Team

2.03 Explore models of intergenerational learning to build foundation skills

Transformative Education Showcase sharing intergenerational models to strengthen learning

LCU, WCEC and Wyndham Youth Services Team and

Climate and Resilience Unit

3.0 Employability, Work Skills and Building Careers

Employability skills and workplace learning

3.01 Wyntalk to present innovative models developing employability skills including where bi-lingual workers support new workers

Principals’ Breakfast - businesses and Principals discuss changing employability skills needs

LCU and Principal’s Network and business network

3.02 Celebrate and promote local career pathways

Celebrate and promote local career pathways

LCU

WynBay LLEN

Skills and Jobs Centres

Social and Economic Inclusion Unit

3.03 Engage local employers in creating greater visibility of local career pathways for people with disability and skills development options

Disability awareness training for local businesses

LCU

Wyndham Disability Services Network and

WynbayLLEN

Growing sustainable resilient local businesses

3.04 Determine future skills requirements of small to medium size businesses

Promote the importance of learning in welcoming and inclusive workplaces

LCU, Economic Development,

SPARK, Libraries, Social and Economic Inclusion and Climate and Resilience Unit

4.0 Leadership and New Learning

Leading and Learning in Wyndham

4.01 Capture stories of learning professionals in Wyndham and promote and celebrate

Education Roundtable to explore the key attributes of high performing learning professionals

LCU, Schools and Advocacy Unit

Build Leadership in the Community

4.02 Promote the Youth Services Civic Participation Program

Capacity Building focused on community leadership and civic participation

LCU,

Youth Services,

Community Strengthening unit and

Climate and Resilience Unit

4.03 Utilise Place-based Social and Action Learning to identify areas where learning in action can have most impact in a local community

Place-based Social and Action Learning embedded into LCS learning opportunities

LCU,

Wyndham CEC,

Community Strengthening Unit and

Neighbourhood Hubs

Engage, participate in, and connect to key learning networks

4.04 Active participation in Australian Learning Communities Network (ALCN) and LearnWest Network

Active participation in ALCN and LearnWest Network

LCU

4.05 Maintain connections with PASCAL,UNESCO and GNLC

Continue international connections

LCU

Civic and Social learning

4.06 Extend and promote Civic Learning initiatives

Extend and promote Civic Learning initiatives

LCU,

Wyndham CEC,

Youth Services and

Community Strengthening Unit

Innovation and new digital technology

4.07 STEM Education & Industry Conference

Extend and promote STEM Education & Industry Conference

LCU,

Wyndham Tech School and Smart Cities

4.08 Transformative Education Showcase focusing on Increasing access to learning using multi-channel digital technology (AI, AR, VR and google translator)

Share access to multi-channel digital technology (AI, AR, VR and google translator)

Wyndham Tech School

4.09 Through Wyndham Coding Champs Competition, provide opportunity for children to engage in STEAM and explore creativity and innovation

Showcase the STEAM creations and achievements of Coding Champs

LCU and Libraries IT Team

Promoting education for sustainable development

4.10 Wyntalk to inform and educate community on environmental sustainability and climate action

Learning Festival events focused on environmental sustainability and climate action

LCU and

Wyndham CEC

4.11 Engage with UNESCO GNLC to share projects and models of engagement

LCU

Make visible the learning needs of Wyndham’s diverse communities

4.12 Education Roundtable on diversity and learning - gender equality, CALD communities, people with disability services and older people

Learning Festival events showcasing learning and diversity in Wyndham

LCU, Wyndham Disability Services Network, Social Policy Unit and Wyndham CEC

4.13 Promote benefits of learning across life for older people

Promote benefits of learning across life for older people

LCU and

Community Strengthening Unit

4.14 Connecting to the diverse stories of the communities of Wyndham

Libraries (Library of People)

5.0 Underpinning Considerations

Spaces and Places

5.1 Audit of possible learning and study spaces in Wyndham

Explore model for optimising usage

LCU and

Arts Events and Cultural Spaces

Deepening reach

5.2 Design and build a clever easy to navigate Portal to provide visibility over the Learning Community Strategy

Promote Portal as go to for information on learning in Wyndham

LCU

5.3 Develop high impact visual promotions of Learning Community events and promote the UNESCO Learning City brand throughout the municipality

LCU and Smart Cities

Collecting and using data in new ways

5.4 Explore a simple mechanism to support the collection of relevant data

Explore the potential for trials for simple new measures and methods to collect and analyse data

LCU and Smart Cities

Signature Event

2024

Wyndham Learning Festival

Cultural Awareness, Cultural Tours on Country, and Stories of Two First Nations Cultures

Wyntalks

Themes from which to choose Wyntalks in 2024:

  • Treaty, or other outcomes from cultural values assessment.
  • Innovative models developing employability skills including where bilingual workers support new workers.
  • Inform and educate community on environmental sustainability and climate action

Principals’ Breakfast

First Nations services and supports.

WYNnovation

Celebrates business, innovation, and entrepreneurship through an action-packed month of events.

Education Roundtable

Diversity and learning - gender equality, CALD communities, people with disability services and older people.

Transformative Education Showcase

Focus on Increasing access to learning using multi-channel digital technology (AI, AR, VR and google translator).

Civics Learning initiatives

Extend and promote Civic Learning initiatives.

Place-based Social and Action Learning

Identify areas where learning in action can have most impact in a local community.

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