Well Taught

Small-group, three-part professional development program for early career teachers designed to strengthen their wellbeing, career fulfilment and retention

Why It Matters

If we’re lucky, we’ve had teachers who quietly changed our lives.

Maybe they were the first adult outside your family to see parts of you. Perhaps they noticed a strength, sparked your curiosity, or believed in your potential. Maybe they helped you feel safe, challenged, or capable in a way that stuck.

For me, there was a primary school teacher who encouraged me to be assertive. A secondary school art teacher who connected art, history and psychology, sparking a lifelong curiosity. The history teacher who was thorough, capable and invited excellence.

These moments often come from teachers who are not just skilled, but well supported, connected, and able to sustain themselves in the work they love.

Well Taught exists because we need exceptional teachers and we need to help sustain them.

Because teachers who are well supported are more likely feel fulfilled in their careers, remain in the industry and support better outcomes for their students.

What is it?

  • Offering

    Well Taught is a small-group, three-part professional development program designed for early career teachers.

    It offers a supportive space to reflect, connect, and develop tools for wellbeing and career sustainability.

    Each cohort completes a three-session core program (delivered in person or online), supported by a closed online hub for shared resources and peer connection.

  • Modules

    Session 1: Strong Mind
    A road map to emotions, helpful thinking patterns, values, and personal strengths that uplift, fulfil and sustain at work.

    Session 2: Navigating Challenges Early and Well
    Recognising early signs of burnout, managing work/life balance, developing strategies to cope in difficult periods, and when/how to reach out for help.

    Session 3: Strong Relationships and Communities
    Finding strength, connection, and meaning through rich collegial, student, and parent relationships.

  • Online Hub

    Online Hub

    The Well Taught Online Hub is a space to stay connected with like-minded peers and continue learning beyond the sessions.

    It offers a curated library of resources to help you apply the tools and strategies from the program in real time.

    The hub is also responsive. If themes or questions emerge within the group, additional evidence-based information and tools will be shared to meet those needs directly.

What makes it different.

  • Clinically informed, evidence-based, integrating lived experience

    Grounded in recent Australian teacher wellbeing research, thoughtful lived experience consultations with teachers in Australian education settings and evidence-based psychology theories and interventions.

  • Tailored small-group learning

    Participants are grouped wherever possible by context (e.g., primary/secondary/tertiary) to ensure relevance and deepen peer connection.

  • Responsive and adaptive

    Each group receives dynamic content and tools based on their real-time needs and lived experiences.

  • System-aware and relationship-focused

    Supports not just individual resilience, but also strong relationships—key drivers of retention.

  • Measured impact

    Includes pre and post-program assessments to demonstrate outcomes and drive continuous improvement.