About Us
Independent Schools Tasmania (IST) exists to provide support, advocacy, and representation for its members.
Who we are
Independent Schools Tasmania is an association of independent schools within the state that together educate over 11,000 students. Each independent school is fully autonomous and separately accountable to its parents and community. We promote freedom of choice and diversity in education to support the needs of each individual student.
Purpose
Independent Schools Tasmania exists to provide support, advocacy and representation for the independent schools of Tasmania.
Services
Professional Learning
The consulting team at IST offer a range of Professional Learning options, catered specifically for your school or region. The Professional Learning opportunities include (but are not limited to) areas such as curriculum, pedagogy, assessment and differentiation; school culture, educational leadership, building teacher capacity and reviewing school data.
Professional Learning can be delivered via:
- One-on-one coaching and follow up coaching sessions and support
- A small group of your colleagues from your school
- Whole staff single school sessions
- Multiple small/whole group school sessions across the term/year
- Webinars
To arrange your bespoke professional learning sessions, please contact the consultants via our contact page.
Each year we also run a wide range of webinar based PL opportunities. They can be accessed through the events page.
Grant Administration
IST administers and distributes grants to Tasmanian independent schools for a number of government funding programs.
These include:
- The Choice and Affordability Fund (CAF)
- The Australian Government Capital Grants Program (CGP)
- The Loan Interest Subsidy program (LIS)
- National Schools Wellbeing Program (SWP)
- Preschool Reform Agreement Program (PRA)
To discuss this further contact our Finance and Admin Manager.
Representation
The consulting team at IST offer a range of Professional Learning options, catered specifically for your school or region. The Professional Learning opportunities include (but are not limited to) areas such as curriculum, pedagogy, assessment and differentiation; school culture, educational leadership, building teacher capacity and reviewing school data.
Professional Learning can be delivered via:
- One-on-one coaching and follow up coaching sessions and support
- A small group of your colleagues from your school
- Whole staff single school sessions
- Multiple small/whole group school sessions across the term/year
- Webinars