STEP 4
Please Select two Community of Practice workshops to attend
Tap on the workshop title for more infomation.
Speak. Listen. Lead. From Power Over to Power With
This session invites you to explore the power of communication to build trust, deepen connection, and unlock shared leadership. We’ll move beyond control to connection and discover how every voice can shape how we lead. Let us redefine leadership through dialogue.
Yolanda
Orrai
Facilitator
CREATING EQUITABLE CLASSROOMS THROUGH SHARED LEADERSHIP:
This session examines how learning barriers hinder academic engagement and success. These obstacles fall into cognitive, emotional, social, and environmental categories, affecting students in different ways. Cognitive challenges include learning disabilities, while emotional factors like anxiety impact participation. Social influences and inadequate resources further limit access and motivation. Educators can address these barriers through adaptive strategies, personalized support, and inclusive teaching methods.
Irene Mopai
Facilitator
Beyond the Classroom: Building Digital Bridges for Educator Collaboration
This workshop offers practical tools for building and sustaining vibrant online professional learning communities. Learn how to engage diverse stakeholders, educators, parents, and leaders regions through inclusive and motivating strategies. Featuring real-world case studies from Zibuza.net’s AI training, book clubs, and parenting groups, the session highlights simple yet effective ways to foster connection. Attendees will leave with actionable insights to drive engagement, collaboration, and long-term growth in digital learning spaces.
Malcolm
Mooi
Facilitator
Using empathy-driven education to inspire a positive learning culture
In classrooms shaped by pressure, limited resources, and trauma, it’s easy to forget the power of love. Join STEPi for a transformative session on Teaching with Love—a practical, heart-centered approach that equips educators to create emotionally safe, connected learning spaces, one micro-moment at a time. In this interactive session, we’ll explore how empathy, joy, and intentional presence can close gaps in learner engagement, strengthen classroom culture, and the link between teachers, learners, and communities. This session will leave you inspired, grounded, and equipped with tools you can use immediately.
Morgan
Mahala
Facilitator
Pumeza Macingw-
ane
Facilitator
Unconscious bias: when good intentions are not good enough
The session explores how quick decisions, reflexively interpreting new information through existing patterns of thought, can show themselves in a school environment as well as in our personal decision-making. It intends to heighten our self-awareness and decision-making in a variety of situations
Facilitator
Kutloano Toko ,
Pearl Makhene,
Sinenhlanhla Thabethe
10 Minute Innovations
This Community of Practice involves seven 10 minute innovations
- Executive Function – What is it and how do we develop it in our learners
- DBE’s Entrepreneurial Readiness and Support Systems
- Breaking Barriers: Empowering Visually Impaired Through Blind Football
- Book Village’s online tutoring platform
- Cross-sector Partnerships with Universities Can Shape the Future of Education
- Implementing targeted instruction approaches in South Africa
- Building Bridges to Computational Thinking through Unplugged Play
Facilitator
Various
Speak. Listen. Lead. From Power Over to Power With
Yolanda Orrai (Leap Institute)
This session invites you to explore the power of communication to build trust, deepen connection, and
unlock shared leadership. We’ll move beyond control to connection and discover how every voice can
shape how we lead. Let us redefine leadership through dialogue.
BUILDING BRIDGES FOR INCLUSION: CREATING EQUITABLE CLASSROOMS THROUGH SHARED LEADERSHIP:
Irene Mopai Global Teacher Institute Alumni
This session examines how learning barriers hinder academic engagement and success. These obstacles fall into cognitive, emotional, social, and environmental categories, affecting students in different ways. Cognitive challenges include learning disabilities, while emotional factors like anxiety impact participation. Social influences and inadequate resources further limit access and motivation. Educators can address these barriers through adaptive strategies, personalized support, and inclusive teaching methods.
Beyond the Classroom: Building Digital Bridges for Educator Collaboration
Malcolm Mooi- Zibuza.net
This workshop offers practical tools for building and sustaining vibrant online professional learning communities. Learn how to engage diverse stakeholders, educators, parents, and leaders regions through inclusive and motivating strategies. Featuring real-world case studies from Zibuza.net’s AI training, book clubs, and parenting groups, the session highlights simple yet effective ways to foster connection. Attendees will leave with actionable insights to drive engagement, collaboration, and long-term growth in digital learning spaces.
Using empathy-driven education to inspire a positive learning culture
Morgan Mahala/Pumeza Macingwane - STEPI
In classrooms shaped by pressure, limited resources, and trauma, it’s easy to forget the power of love. Join STEPi for a transformative session on Teaching with Love—a practical, heart-centered approach that equips educators to create emotionally safe, connected learning spaces, one micro-moment at a time. In this interactive session, we’ll explore how empathy, joy, and intentional presence can close gaps in learner engagement, strengthen classroom culture, and the link between teachers, learners, and communities. This session will leave you inspired, grounded, and equipped with tools you can use immediately.
UNCONSCIOUS BIAS: WHEN GOOD INTENTIONS ARE NOT GOOD ENOUGH
Kutloano Toko, Pearl Makhene, Sinenhlanhla Thabethe
The session explores how quick decisions, reflexively interpreting new information through existing patterns of thought, can show themselves in a school environment as well as in our personal decision-making. It intends to heighten our self-awareness and decision-making in a variety of situations
10 MINUTE INNOVATIONS
This Community of Practice Involves seven 10 minute innovations
- Executive Function – What is it and how do we develop it in our learners
- DBE’s Entrepreneurial Readiness and Support Systems
- Breaking Barriers: Empowering Visually Impaired Through Blind Football
- Book Village’s online tutoring platform
- Cross-sector Partnerships with Universities Can Shape the Future of Education
- Implementing targeted instruction approaches in South Africa
- Building Bridges to Computational Thinking through Unplugged Play