Dave Faulkner, the CEO of Education Changemakers (EC), knows a thing or two about professional learning. As a schoolteacher, he took part in it; as a principal he selected it for his team; and as a co-founder of EC, he has spent the last decade running PL workshops for hundreds of thousands of educators.

From these experiences, Dave knew that school leaders had a finite budget for PL, a limited amount of time that they could dedicate to staff development, and an ever-growing wish list of ways that they would like to build their team’s capacity. Where many other industries had applied the idea of aggregation to significant effect (think Spotify for music, Uber for car travel and Airbnb for places to stay), the K-12 education sector was yet to realise its potential.

Until 2022.

This year, EC joined forces with the Australian technology unicorn Go1 to launch EC Premium. Schools can subscribe to EC Premium for their staff members and gain unlimited access to thousands of professional learning courses from the comfort of their own devices. Go1 hosts the world’s most extensive professional learning library with content from groups including Harvard, Blinkist and hundreds more, but importantly for EC Premium, a priority has been placed on sourcing K-12-specific content providers. This means subscribers can instantly access school restorative practice training from Adam Voigt’s Real Schools, leadership training from Tracy Ezard, instructional sessions with Michael Fullan and Anthony Hargraves via BTS Spark and many more. ‘We are excited with the K-12 providers we’ve already brought to EC Premium, and are adding plenty more to the platform monthly.’

EC’s mission is to democratise access to quality professional learning for educators, globally. With the team expanding into the USA and the UK later this year, it’s a great time to get on board with an Australian concept and to provide a game-changing new PL solution for your school team.

For more information about EC Premium, head over to ec. inc or catch the EC team at an education conference near you in the coming months!