Whole-school professional learning

Build collective teacher expertise across your school.

Give every educator across your school access to connected, evidence-informed professional learning that builds shared knowledge, strengthens instructional decision-making and supports consistent English and literacy teaching.

One annual subscription. Every educator. Shared professional learning.

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professional learning that strengthens teaching

Professional learning works best when teachers learn together.

Professional learning has the greatest impact when teachers build knowledge together, develop shared professional language and connect evidence-informed learning directly to classroom practice. Rather than isolated professional development experiences, schools are increasingly creating ongoing professional learning that strengthens teaching over time.

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Shared professional knowledge

Develop shared understandings of English and literacy teaching so educators can engage in richer professional conversations and make more consistent instructional decisions.

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Evidence-informed practice

Connect current research, professional reading and expert guidance with everyday classroom planning, teaching and assessment.

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Sustained professional learning

Revisit learning throughout the year, reflect together and refine classroom practice as teacher knowledge continues to grow.

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Collective teacher expertise

Support every educator to contribute to a shared whole-school approach while continuing to deepen their own professional knowledge.

From professional learning to classroom practice

Turning professional learning into shared practice.

Professional learning becomes more powerful when it moves from individual participation into shared discussion, classroom application and ongoing reflection. PL Subscription helps schools create a connected professional learning journey that builds knowledge over time.

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Identify a priority

Choose a focus aligned with your school improvement goals, student data or teaching team needs.

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Build shared knowledge

Engage teachers in common professional learning that develops shared language and understanding.

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Discuss the learning

Use staff meetings, teams or PLCs to consider implications for planning, teaching and assessment.

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Apply in classrooms

Connect professional learning directly to teaching practice, classroom routines and student work.

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Reflect and refine

Review what is changing, share observations and identify what needs further attention.

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Continue learning

Return to courses, conference recordings and resources as new questions and priorities emerge.

Schools implement this in different ways.

PL Subscription is designed to support the professional learning structures your school already uses while helping teachers build shared professional knowledge over time.

Whole-school focus

Every educator explores the same professional learning, creating common language around a shared literacy priority.

Year-level teams

Teaching teams investigate learning together before planning, trialling and refining classroom practice.

Professional learning communities

Courses become shared professional texts that support collaborative inquiry, discussion and reflection.

Personal pathways within a shared direction

Teachers deepen knowledge relevant to their role while contributing to a consistent whole-school approach.

There is no single model for whole-school professional learning. PL Subscription gives schools the flexibility to build shared knowledge in ways that suit their context, priorities and staff.

What your school receives

Everything your school needs to support the learning journey.

PL Subscription brings PETAA’s professional learning, member resources and literacy expertise together in one school-wide membership, so teachers can keep building knowledge throughout the year.

Professional learning

Courses for every educator

Give staff access to PETAA’s online professional learning across reading, writing, grammar, vocabulary, spelling, assessment and leadership.

  • 60+ online professional learning courses
  • Flexible access across the membership year
  • Learning for teachers, leaders and teams
Conference learning

Extend learning beyond one event

Support staff to revisit major conference ideas, share recordings with teams and connect keynote learning to school priorities.

  • 2026 Leading with Literacy Conference on-demand
  • Whole-staff access to conference recordings
  • Learning that can be revisited across the year
Member resources

Professional reading and classroom support

Access PETAA resources that help teachers connect professional learning with planning, teaching and classroom implementation.

  • PETAA Papers and professional reading
  • Curriculum units and teaching resources
  • Webinars, articles and resource collections
School membership

All the benefits of School Membership

PL Subscription includes the benefits of PETAA School Membership, with added access to the professional learning your staff need.

  • School-wide member access
  • Member pricing on books, events and learning
  • Support from the PETAA membership team

The value is not simply in access to more resources. It is in helping your school use professional learning, publications and classroom resources as part of one connected approach to strengthening English and literacy teaching.

Explore the learning

See the professional learning your staff can access.

PL Subscription gives your school access to professional learning across the areas that matter most for English and literacy improvement, from reading and writing to grammar, vocabulary, spelling, assessment and leadership.

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Reading

Build teacher knowledge in reading instruction, comprehension, fluency, phonics, text complexity and reading beyond the early years.

Writing

Support explicit writing instruction, writing development, sentence construction, metalinguistic talk and writing improvement across year levels.

Grammar, vocabulary and spelling

Strengthen teacher understanding of how language works, including grammar, morphology, vocabulary, spelling and sentence-level instruction.

Leadership and whole-school literacy

Support literacy leaders and school teams to build shared professional knowledge, guide implementation and sustain improvement over time.

School story

How one school built consistency in sentence writing.

St Felix Catholic Primary School used PETAA PL Subscription to support a whole-school focus on sentence construction and punctuation, building shared teacher knowledge across a staff of approximately 60 educators.

The challenge

School data showed students needed stronger support with complete, controlled sentences and accurate punctuation.

The focus

Leaders identified a precise problem in practice: building consistent teacher knowledge in sentence construction across classrooms.

The implementation

Teachers completed targeted PETAA courses and used existing meeting time to make professional learning part of the school’s improvement work.

The application

Teachers connected course learning to programming, shared reading, writing instruction and feedback on student work.

The shift

The school developed more consistent expectations, shared language and clearer progression in how sentence writing was taught.

Professional learning became a tool for improvement, not a box-ticking exercise.

The school used a clearly defined instructional focus, whole-staff participation and structured reflection to translate learning into classroom practice.
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Every school's professional learning journey looks different. Whether you're building shared expertise across a small teaching team or leading professional learning for an entire staff, PL Subscription is designed to support your school's priorities, context and pace of improvement. Use the calculator below to explore what that could look like for your school.

Pricing and value

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Subscription price: $4,000 inc. GST
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Annual cost comparison

Individual enrolments
$4,800
8 course enrolments based on your selection
PL Subscription
$3,700
Unlimited access for eligible staff across the membership year
Estimated annual savings
$1,100
Save 23% with PL Subscription
Break-even estimate
With approximately 7 individual course enrolments, your school has reached the annual subscription value.
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