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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.
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!
Our new Education Minister
NATIONAL - Simon Crean has been appointed
the post of Education Minister, after Prime Minister Julia
Gillard announced a Cabinet shuffle.
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newspaper report
Teachers Union shows support for Gillard
NATIONAL – Teachers have welcomed
the news of former Education Minister Julia Gillard taking
the role of Australia’s prime minister. Mary Bluett
of the Australian Education Union said, ‘I think that
Julia will not lose that genuine passion she has for education’.
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newspaper report
Flexible school hours maximise school facilities
NSW - Edmund Rice College in Wollongong
has had a flexible late starting time for students for over
20 years. Principal David Lear has stated that the different
starting times allow the school to maximise their use of
its facilities, and therefore, can provide more electives
for students.
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newspaper report
Australia’s universities ‘closed’
to foreign students
NATIONAL - Vice-chancellor of Swinburne
University, Professor Ian Young, has said Australia’s
universities are ‘effectively closed’ to international
students, due to recent changes to international student
visas.
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newspaper report
New library too small for school’s
books
NATIONAL – A new school library
built using funding from the Building the Education Revolution
project is reportedly too small to fit all the school’s
library books inside, and is instead being used as a classroom.
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newspaper report
Gillard’s primary school pleased with
BER project
SA - Julia Gillard's alma mater, Mitcham
Primary School, is one of the many schools in South Australia
to be thrilled with its new federally funded buildings.
Principal Brad Boyd said, ‘Just reading the stuff on
the (South Australian principals) chat site, I haven't seen
one negative comment on there. It seems to have worked differently
here.’
Read newspaper report
Parents concerned over report software
NSW – Parents and citizens groups
are concerned that by using the software program, ‘Report
Robot’, to help write reports, student reports will
not have adequate personalisation.
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newspaper report
Memorial service for missing teacher
WA – A memorial service will be
held for missing school teacher, Millie Johnston. Her body
is yet to be found after she fell over a cliff in Banyos
in Ecuador.
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newspaper report
Opinion . . .
Our third biggest export earner in jeopardy
NATIONAL – Former Education Minister,
Julie Bishop, writes that our international education sector
needs to be a higher priority for the Labor government.
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newspaper report
Gillard an inspiration to students
National – Young female students
write of what having Australia’s first woman Prime
Minister means to them.
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newspaper report
Good news . . .
iPad covered under education rebate
NATIONAL – The iPad will qualify
as an eligible education expense for students, allowing
parents to claim it on their tax.
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newspaper report
International
Graduating class all college bound
USA - Urban Prep is a high school on Chicago's
South Side that aims to have 100% of its students attending
college after graduation.
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newspaper report
Geography and history losing popularity
UK – Head of North London Collegiate
School, Bernice McCabe, has said traditional subjects like
history and geography subjects are being overlooked in lieu
of more 'accessible' subjects.
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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 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.
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