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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!
Election focus on education
NATIONAL – Education will be a major
campaign focus of the National Party, according to Federal
Director Brad Henderson.
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newspaper report
Rural education push for election
NATIONAL – The Nationals have dedicated
$1 billion of funding for rural education, including to
help upgrade regional universities and to help encourage
teachers to work in the area.
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newspaper report
Bill would make school closures more difficult
ACT – The ACT Legislative Assembly
will debate a new bill this week, which would require the
government to follow certain protocol before a school could
be shut.
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newspaper report
Not all schools get value for BER money
NATIONAL – Head of the taskforce
investigating the Building the Education Revolution spending,
Brad Orgill, has said that it has not delivered value for
money in every school.
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newspaper report
Newspaper denied building plans: report
NATIONAL – The NSW Education Department
is reportedly ignoring requests from ‘The Australian’
newspaper, to release the standard plans for public school
buildings it is funding under the Building the Education
Revolution program.
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newspaper report
Child care graduates celebrate
NSW – A group of early school leavers,
with either disadvantaged or indigenous backgrounds, have
happily graduated from their child care studies course.
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Reported abuses have risen since intervention
NT – Reports of child abuse and
neglect have reportedly more than doubled in indigenous
communities in the Northern Territory, since the Northern
Territory Intervention.
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newspaper report
Teens arrested over school devastation
VIC – Two teenagers have been charged
relating to the fire that devastated Ashwood College.
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newspaper report
Opinion . . .
Faith schools key to preventing teen pregnancy?
UK – Cristina Odone writes the teaching
of religious schools helps prevent teenage pregnancy.
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newspaper report
Good news . . .
Unique student remembers the Holocaust
USA – Student of Hillel Community
Day School, David Broide, has commemorated the Holocaust
by collecting 1.5 million pennies – one penny for each
child killed.
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newspaper report
International
Early start for sex education
UK – The National Institute of Clinical
Excellence has recommended that all primary schools begin
sex education at the age of five.
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newspaper report
One in five gets private tutoring
UK – One in five high school students
in England are receiving private tuition to help them improve
their education outside of school hours.
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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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