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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!
From Education Minister to our new PM
NATIONAL - Julia Gillard has taken over
Kevin Rudd's role of Australia's Prime Minister.
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newspaper report
Gillard slams Nationals education fund
NATIONAL - Julia Gillard has said The
National's $1 billion education fund is misleading. Ms Gillard
said on local radio, 'The National Party will not spend
a billion dollars on regional education or anything like
it [...] They'll just spend the interest - likely to be
less than a tenth each year of what their press release
trumpets'.
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newspaper report
Choose your own holidays
VIC - The innovative new Melbourne City
School is allowing parents to choose their child's holidays
for themselves by holding classes all year round.
Read
newspaper report
Withholding payment over BER building
NSW - Tottenham Central School is refusing
to sign off on its Building the Education Revolution building
work due to alleged poor workmanship and over charging.
NSW Education Minister Verity Firth has said the payments
to managing contractor Laing O'Rourke will be withheld until
the matter is resolved.
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newspaper report
Firth announces bullying changes
NSW - NSW Education Minister Verity Firth
has said there will be changes made to bullying policy after
the death of abused student, Alex Wildman.
Read newspaper report
National curriculum coming to Queensland
QLD - Queensland Education Minister Geoff
Wilson has announced that the national curriculum will be
used across schools statewide, for students from Prep to
Year 10.
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newspaper report
Security adequate, despite fires
VIC - Education Minister Bronwyn Pike
has said that school sprinkler systems at Victorian schools
were not practical and that existing security systems were
adequate, despite three suspicious fires in one week.
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newspaper report
Pike to placate merger fears
VIC - Education Minister Bronwyn Pike
is visiting Thomastown Secondary College and Peter Lalor
Secondary College to discuss a controversial merger between
the two schools.
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newspaper report
Opinion . . .
Immigration issues key to foreign enrolments
NATIONAL - Andrew Trounson writes that
immigration policy needs to change to prevent a further
downturn of international students.
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newspaper report
Good news . . .
New outlook for CBD school
VIC - Melbourne City School, Melbourne's
first and only school in the CBD, is taking some new approaches
to learning.
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newspaper report
International
'Dignity for All Students'
USA - The New York Senate has officially
passed the 'Dignity for all Students' Bill, to help eliminate
bullying and harassment in schools.
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newspaper report
Building regulations may relax
UK – School building regulations
and planning laws in England may be relaxed to allow more
schools to be built.
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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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