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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
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 |
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| 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 | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 | |
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| 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 | |
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| 4.05 Maintain connections with PASCAL,UNESCO and GNLC | Continue international connections | LCU | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 | |
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| 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:
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| 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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