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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!
Recent headlines . . .
BER doesn’t always provide ‘value
for money’: Crean
NATIONAL – Education Minister Simon
Crean has ceded that the Building the Education Revolution
program has not always delivered ‘value for money’
to schools.
Read
newspaper report
Teachers union still oppose league-tables
NSW – The New South Wales Teachers
Federation has confirmed it is still not supporting the
publication of school league tables.
Read
newspaper report
School gets new building at a great price
NSW – Black Hill Public School has
got itself a bargain building by self-managing its school
stimulus funds.
Read
newspaper report
Study tracks student behaviour
NSW – A University of Wollongong
project is tracking the behaviour of young students, to
research new ways to prevent youth from becoming anti-social.
Read
newspaper report
Principal writes book on BER
NATIONAL – Berwick Lodge Primary
School principal, Henry Grossek, has written a book on the
poor deal he believes the Building the Education Revolution
scheme has given schools.
Read
newspaper report
‘Apartheid’ in NSW schools
NSW - Chris Bonnor has said NSW’s
education system is creating ‘social and academic apartheid’
by separating schools for the academic elite.
Read newspaper report
BER promise broken
VIC – Education Minister Bronwyn
Pike has not yet released cost breakdowns on the school
stimulus spending for Victorian schools.
Read
newspaper report
Ethics classes to be evaluated
NSW – Philosophy lecturer, Dr Sue
Knight, has been given the responsibility of evaluating
whether recent ethics classes in NSW were a success.
Read
newspaper report
Opinion . . .
Gillard disappoints in Education role
NSW – Senior columnist at 'The Age',
Kenneth Davidson, writes that Julia Gillard was an unsuccessful
Education Minister.
Read
newspaper report
Body image and schools
NATIONAL – CEO of Enlighten Education,
Dannielle Miller, writes on the government’s new body
image initiatives and the impact they may have on schools.
Read
newspaper report
Good news . . .
Melbourne becoming safer for Indian students
VIC – Operation Guardian is working
to protect Indian students studying in Australia - and is
reportedly having some success.
Read
newspaper report
International
Jamie Oliver healthy meals a failure: Health
Secretary
UK – The Jamie Oliver healthy eating
scheme for students has deterred students from eating school
food, according to Health Secretary Andrew Lansley.
Read
newspaper report
Education initiatives postponed
USA – President Barack Obama’s
education initiatives have been setback, after funding was
diverted to help sponsor a jobs bill to prevent teacher
layoffs.
Read
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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