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ACEL's 2010 International Conference: Hosting and Harvesting

Sydney Convention Centre
29-30 September and 1 October 2010

Join us for three challenging and memorable days of learning as we together pursue the improvement of student and school outcomes.

With nine extraordinary keynotes, twenty-three lead papers and over one hundred workshops to attend, this will be the learning conference to attend in 2010. Our full list of speakers and additions to the conference program will continue to be updated on the conference website.

To register online for the ACEL 2010 Conference and for more information please visit:

http://www.acel.org.au/conference

This conference is not to be missed!

 

Recent headlines . . .

Universities not supporting visa cuts
NATIONAL - Universities have warned Tony Abbott's plan to cut international student visa numbers will hurt the education industry and cause huge job losses.
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Coalition visa plan shocks student leader
NATIONAL - President of La Trobe University's international students' association, Lily Yuen, has said she was 'shocked' to learn about the Coalition's plans to cut international student visa numbers. 'International students don't just contribute economically to Australia, but also to our cultural diversity. We're not just cash cows - we actually provide other benefits and skills,' she said.
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Asbestos substance found in 115 schools
QLD - The Education Department has found Asbestolux, a product containing 70 per cent asbestos, in 115 state schools across Queensland.
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Indigenous student funding lowered
NATIONAL - A new funding formula by the Federal Government has left schools with indigenous students without enough money to maintain out-of-class services.
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Indigenous enrolments on My School
NATIONAL - New South Wales Aboriginal Consultative Group president, Cindy Berwick, is questioning why the number of Indigenous students enrolled in each school is published on the My School website.
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Toughen up penalties to improve attendance: expert
NT - Territory Co-ordinator-General Bob Beadman has said the penalties for parents not sending their indigenous children to school need to be tougher. A report by Beadman reads, 'Governments are not sending a strong enough signal to the people of remote areas that full school attendance is legally non-negotiable and that failure to comply with the law will result in a range of serious sanctions'.
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Calls for more specialised learning groups
NSW - Families and teachers have complained to the NSW parliamentary inquiry that there are insufficient specialised learning groups for students with autism.
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Enid Blyton books to be rewritten
NATIONAL - The publishers of Enid Blyton's books, including the Famous Five and Faraway Tree series, are re-editing the books to replace old-fashioned words and phrases with their modern equivalents. Children's Book Council president Maj Kirkland has said the publishers should consider publishing a glossary at the end of the book instead.
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Good news . . .

Holocaust survivors teach students important lesson
NSW - Students from Canterbury Boys High School have heard first-hand stories of Holocaust survivors to encourage them to stand up to bullies.
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Opinion . . .

Gillard has 'changed the education landscape'
NATIONAL - Prime Minister Julia Gillard has started the ball rolling in education reform - now it is time for her to properly implement those new ideas.
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School rebates only to woo voters: opinion
NATIONAL - This opinion piece in 'The Courier Mail' contends that education rebates announced by Labor and the Coalition have 'little to do with education and everything to do with votes'.
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International

School for pregnant students considered
MALAYSIA - The Malaysian state of Malacca is considering establishing a school for pregnant teenagers, to help lower the numbers of abandoned infants. However, only married students will be allowed to attend the school.
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Further education helps dementia sufferers
WORLD - A European study has proved further education helps a person cope with the physical effects of dementia.
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ACEL 2010 Travelling Scholar Professor Alma Harris

Distributing Leadership: Generating Leadership Capacity in and between Schools and across Systems

Professor Alma Harris is Pro-Director (Leadership) at the Institute of Education, London and Director of London Centre for Leadership in Learning. Her research work focuses on organisational change and development. She is internationally known for her work on school improvement, focusing particularly on improving schools in challenging circumstances.

In her workshop Alma will:

- provide a clear account of distributed leadership in practice offer evidence about its positive impact on organisational and individual learning.

- give examples and practical illustrations of how it works and what barriers may be encountered.

- discuss the difference between distributed leadership and delegation.

- explain that distributed leadership does not mean everybody leads.

- consider the leadership of professional learning communities within, between and across schools and the role distributed leadership plays.

- draw upon models of distributed leadership from other sectors.

- look at how lateral capacity is built and the part distributed leadership plays in generating leadership capacity between schools and across systems.


This is a day not to be missed.

Don't miss out on this wonderful learning experience. Please visit http://www.acel.org.au for touring dates and venues.

   

Final words ...
'The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economise.' - Franklin D. Roosevelt

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