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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 ten extraordinary keynotes, seventeen
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.
Remember to register for ACEL's 2010 International
Conference before 30th June 2010 to receive our early bird
rates.
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!
Australia's first zero-emission education
facility
NATIONAL - Griffith University is building
Australia's first zero-emission and self-powering teaching
and research building at a cost of $32 million.
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newspaper report
Abbott supports NAPLAN tests
NATIONAL - Opposition leader, Tony Abbott,
has said his party will not scrap NAPLAN tests, if elected
to Government.
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newspaper report
Student death 'not racially motivated'
VIC - The murder of Indian student, Nitin
Garg, has been labelled as not racially motivated by police.
A 15-year-old boy has been arrested over the death.
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newspaper report
Bullying measures must be improved
NSW - Deputy Coroner Malcolm Macpherson
has recommended that the NSW Department of Education's policies
on bullying be overhauled, after the suicide of abused student
Alex Wildman.
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newspaper report
Suspicious blaze at Melbourne school
VIC - A suspicious fire at Ashwood Secondary
College has caused millions of dollars of damage. School
principal Kerrie Croft said, 'It’s beyond comprehension
why someone would do what they have done'.
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Shortage of qualified teachers for new BER
libraries
NATIONAL - The Australian School Library
Association has said there is a nationwide shortage of between
2,500 and 3,000 teacher librarians.
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newspaper report
School costs topple fast food construction
costs
NT - 'The Australian' has reported that
building works at Larrakeyah Primary School cost more than
twice as much as the construction of a nearby McDonald's
restaurant.
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newspaper report
Nine-year-old allegedly makes knife threat
NSW - A nine-year-old student at Sydney's
Kingswood Park has allegedly threatened a classmate with
a knife. The boy is not expected to be charged or formally
cautioned due to his age.
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newspaper report
Exam results withheld
VIC - Educators at Victoria University
plan to withhold first semester exam results as part of
a staff pay dispute.
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newspaper report
Perth teacher's body believed found
NATIONAL - The body of Perth teacher
Millie Johnston is to believed to have been found. Ms Johnston
was last seen last Wednesday after leaving to visit a waterfall
in Ecuador.
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newspaper report
Teacher's jail term extended
NT - The jail term of a Darwin school
teacher who had a sexual affair with a 13-year-old student
has been extended by one year.
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newspaper report
Eulogy of an education figure
VIC - Norma Campbell-Smith, who played
an 'important role in the field of early childhood education',
has died at the age of 90.
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newspaper report
Opinion . . .
Gillard needs to fix BER errors
NATIONAL - This editorial in 'The Australian'
contends that Education Minister Julia Gillard needs to
fix the problems created by the flawed Building the Education
Revolution program.
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newspaper report
Good news . . .
The A-Team lives on
TAS - Education Minister Lin Thorp has
told parliament that funding for the A-Team, an education
program for children with Aspergers syndrome, will continue
to be paid for by the Government.
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newspaper report
International
Register all home-schooled students: report
UK - A report by Ofsted, the education
standards watchdog, is calling for legislation ensure all
home-schooled students are registered with their local authority.
The action is to ensure that councils are aware of all children
they are legally obliged to safeguard.
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newspaper report
Protecting students from fraud
USA - The US Education Department is working
on new measures to prevent college students and taxpayers
from abusive or fraudulent practices. Education Secretary
Arne Duncan said, 'This is about accountability, and protecting
students'.
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newspaper report
Parents prefer jail over integrated school
ISRAEL - A group of Orthodox Jew parents
have chosen to face jail for contempt of court rather, than
allow their children to attend school with Jewish girls
of Middle Eastern descent.
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newspaper report
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 exemplars 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.
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