This short, sharp session will be hosted by Rydr Tracy, Head of Education at Life Skills GO, and is tailored to school leaders seeking to integrate whole school data-driven strategies for wellbeing and behaviour management.

What to expect:

This is a demonstration of how to empower student voice and enable teachers to support student wellbeing. It will explicitly unpack how to utilise student emotion and readiness to learn data to support your wellbeing programs, align with the SEF and inform your School Behaviour Support and Management Plan. It will provide practical advice to seamlessly implement Life Skills GO to start 2025.

Key Highlights:

  • Collect critical student data without losing any teaching and learning time.
  • Triangulate student emotions with behaviour and attendance data to underpin a proactive whole school approach to wellbeing.
  • SEF 3 Alignment Simplified: Discover how School Bytes and Life Skills GO data provide seamless, real-time evidence for strategic planning and reporting.
  • Proactive Wellbeing Insights: Learn to monitor and respond to student needs with actionable, real-time data that enables early intervention and proactive wellbeing strategies.
  • Care continuum: Utilise Life Skills GO (endorsed by the Department of Education as a quality assured wellbeing program) to support students across the care continuum as part of your SBSMP.
  • Streamlined Administration: Save time by automating data collection, analysis, and reporting, allowing teachers and leaders to focus on teaching and student support.
  • Student-Centred Approach: Empower student voice and emotional literacy while fostering a supportive, inclusive school environment.

Who should attend?

  • School Executives: Leverage data for strategic decision-making and compliance with SEF 3.
  • Stage Leaders: Integrate wellbeing and behaviour data to support teachers and students effectively.
  • Wellbeing Officers: Implement a data-driven approach to whole-school and individual student wellbeing.
  • Learning Support Coordinators: Address diverse student needs with real-time insights and customised interventions

Why attend?

Attend this short sharp session to make an informed decision about turning on Life Skills GO in the School Bytes wellbeing module in 2025.

ABOUT OUR EXPERTS

Rydr Tracy is a specialist in evidence-informed practice in educational innovation, with a career focus on strategic change that improves student outcomes. He draws on a rare blend of successful experience in schools, system leadership roles and industry practice – experience that has given him deep understanding of the complexities of the education sector from the classroom to the boardroom and a demonstrated capacity to generate practical recommendations that are grounded in context and evidence.

Core competencies

  • child development and learning
  • school leadership and system leadership
  • use of technology and contemporary pedagogy in teaching and learning
  • innovation, product design, program design and reform, particularly in educational settings
  • design, implementation and leadership of monitoring and evaluation systems
  • training and capacity building in evaluation
    strategic stakeholder engagement

Selected experience from NSW Department of Education
Building on a successful 10 years in primary teaching, Rydr excelled in a series of corporate roles in the NSW Department of Education between 2015 and 2021. These culminated in elevation to Director of Strategic Priorities in the Centre for Education Statistics and Evaluation and then Director of Strategic Delivery – Learning Improvement. In these roles he worked effectively to embed evaluative practice as a systemic lever for change, redesigning school improvement processes, setting and monitoring school targets and generating a series of sustainable system reforms.


Selected work examples and achievements as Head of Educational Transformation at Creatable

  • Established an innovation and entrepreneurship curriculum for UNICEF Burundi. Phase one of this project generated significant positive results including improved life outcomes for vulnerable peoples living in the poorest nation on earth. This work is now in the process of scaling across East and West Africa.
  • Designed the education campaign for Correct the Internet, which is designed to raise awareness of bias in internet algorithms. This included running a not-for-profit campaign that provided education resources and lessons for teachers to foster compassion, imagination, influence and student empowerment.
  • Led a working group of industry leaders to establish a skills framework to bridge the gap between industry and schooling. This framework has the endorsement of industry and is supported by a suite of on demand, self-paced, NESA-accredited professional learning and implementation support for school leaders.
  • Invited to join the United Nations Global Education Platform Advisory Board.
  • In consultation with the Australian Council for Education Research (ACER), produced high level academic White Papers and rubrics and learning tools.
  • Produced an evidenced-based blog and podcast unpacking the case for educational transformation.
  • Collaborated with UNICEF on innovative education programs that focus on improving life outcomes for children in the world’s poorest countries.
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