Transform your School’s Culture with a Professional Learning Community

"Recognised as a exemplary performing school with a high culture of trust and collaboration" 

Alawa Primary School in the NT has applied many of the ideas, models and approaches shared by Tracey Ezard through The Buzz and in their external school review was recognised as an exemplary performing school with a high culture of trust and collaboration. The practical and easily understood frameworks from The Buzz gave us a base to work from including being able to review how we functioned as a team, how we supported each other and identify the gaps and challenges in moving forward as an authentic high performing team who are able to respectfully engage in disciplined dialog and who demonstrate a commitment to true collaboration. The online diagnostic along with the various templates, activities and ideas helped us frame our thinking and establish goals to work towards.

"Staff are feeling more supported, enabling deeper, more courageous conversations"

Implementing the Buzz Academy has transformed our professional learning culture. Through its engaging videos and resources, we have fostered a safe, collaborative environment where staff genuinely feel both empowered and comfortable to show vulnerability.

Our school culture now supports continuous reflections. Staff are feeling more supported, enabling deeper, more courageous conversations with less fear. Together we’re continuing to build strong relationships, improve our practice and create a learning community that is continuously evolving and buzzing!

"The Buzz approach gave us a shared language to be able to invest in building a learner mindset, a compelling environment and engage in authentic dialogue"

Introducing professional learning communities at Berwick Fields required us to all understand what it was going to take to drive momentum, engagement and shift learning outcomes. The Buzz approach gave us a shared language to be able to invest in building a learner mindset, a compelling environment and engage in authentic dialogue, whilst also balancing the emotional, strategic and learning intelligences. I have found Tracey’s research to be easily accessible and relatable to all staff, allowing it to be present in our everyday decisions and interactions with each other. The Buzz approach inspires me to be an even more agile and responsive educator, knowing I have an anchor to ground me on the complexities of building and leading a collaborative learning culture.

"Cohesion, collaboration and feedback, along with protecting our thriving learning culture"

I have worked with Tracey at my school to build and sustain our Buzz culture. Tracey provided provocations to my leadership team to drill down into what the ‘vibe’ of our culture was and how we could harness it and utilise it when working on our collaborative school improvement journey. I call on Tracey now as a regular critical friend to provide lenses through which to look at team cohesion, collaboration and feedback, along with protecting our thriving learning culture, as well as timely reminders about protocols for meetings, environmental factors and growth mindset. I cannot recommend working in partnership with Tracey highly enough!

"Helped us move from producing good results into the realm of excellence"

Tracey's work with our school helped us move from producing good results into the realm of excellence. Prior to Tracey, we were a collegiate workplace that lacked the rigor that would allow us to challenge ourselves and each other to get to the next level. Tracey helped us to find our 'Buzz' working with our whole staff to identify what sets us apart from others and helped us to focus our energy on the greater good of our community.

"The Buzz Academy turned our school culture around within a 12-month period."

The videos and resources provided us with an opening to begin having deeper, more meaningful conversations with each other. Our Team Leaders felt empowered to drive trust building conversations that led to happier and more connected PLCs. As a whole staff, the Critical Friend Program and The Buzz Academy provided us with a common language for supporting one another. Our staff are now so much more confident in holding each other to account in regard to the behaviours and demeanours we expect of one another, creating a much more pleasant, cohesive and happy workplace.