SPEAKING & PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Practical professional learning for schools and education organisations
Dr Lynette Maguire provides evidence-informed professional development, conference presentations, briefings and tailored school sessions across the Gold Coast, Brisbane and South East Queensland, with live online delivery available Australia-wide.
Topics
School refusal and persistent non-attendance
Understanding patterns, barriers and maintaining factors before deciding how to respond.
Family collaboration
Moving from conflict and competing explanations towards shared understanding and coordinated action.
Neurodivergence and barriers to participation
Considering sensory, executive-function, social and learning demands alongside student capacity and strengths.
Adjustments and re-engagement
Removing unnecessary barriers while preserving meaningful pathways back into participation and learning.
Youth mental health and education
Practical discussion of the intersection between educational participation, distress, belonging and school response.
Digital behaviour and adaptive learning
How digital environments, AI and adaptive learning intersect with engagement, equity and inclusive education.
Formats
Sessions can be delivered face-to-face or live online as school professional development, conference presentations, leadership or specialist briefings, shorter workshops, network sessions or tailored professional learning for a particular school context.
For schools seeking in-depth work on persistent non-attendance, our flagship offer is the Two-Day School Refusal & Re-engagement Training. It is designed as a whole-school re-engagement system, using a repeatable process of noticing patterns, understanding barriers, acting on a working formulation and reviewing what happens next.
Discuss a session for your school or event
Email training@nowgeneration.com.au with your audience, location, preferred timing and what you would like the session to achieve.