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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 . . .
Abbott puts principals in charge of building
projects
NATIONAL – Opposition Leader Tony
Abbott has said a Coalition government would put principals
in charge of school building funds.
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newspaper report
BER review to be considered by Opposition
NATIONAL – The Coalition has said
it will consider adopting recommendations from the Federal
Government’s review into the Building the Education
Revolution project, if elected.
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newspaper report
Stimulus funding may be withheld: Crean
NATIONAL – Education Minister Simon
Crean has said stimulus funding for new school buildings
could be soon be withheld.
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newspaper report
Police Commissioner under fire for school
fundraiser
VIC – Police Chief Commissioner
Simon Overland has been criticised for agreeing to be the
key speaker at a fundraiser for private school, Xavier College.
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newspaper report
‘Awesome College’ plans scrapped
VIC – Thomastown Secondary College
and Peter Lalor Secondary College will no longer merge.
The planned schools working title was ‘Awesome College’.
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newspaper report
International education analysis
NATIONAL – ‘The Australian’
looks at three books on international education, ‘The
Great Brain Race: How Global Universities are Reshaping
the World,’ ‘International Student Security’
and ‘No University is an Island: Saving Academic Freedom’.
Read newspaper report
Agricultural studies vital to curriculum:
educators
NATIONAL - Chair of the Primary Industries
Education Foundation, Cameron Archer, has said agricultural
studies should be included in the national curriculum.
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newspaper report
Student death at Uni Games
QLD – A 20-year-old student participating
in the 2010 Eastern University games has died after being
hit by a car. General manager of Australian University Sport,
Tony Jermyn , said, ‘These sorts of things ... we don't
want them to happen and they don't happen often but when
you have a lot of students together like this, this is just
a tragic accident.’
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newspaper report
Opinion . . .
Expanding the scope of selective schools
NSW - Dr Nicholas Biddle writes that
selective schools would benefit from basing enrolment on
the results of state-wide examinations of students.
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newspaper report
Good news . . .
Student work shines at film festival
NSW – Three student films showcased
at the 2009 Bundanon Sprout project have now been selected
to screen at film festivals.
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newspaper report
International
Curriculum changes for South Africa
SOUTH AFRICA – Minister of Basic
Education, Angie Motshekga, has announced significant changes
to the South African school curriculum.
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newspaper report
School teaches ancient techniques to create
leaders
JAPAN – The Matsushita Institute
of Government and Management works to train modern leaders
by using ancient Japanese practises.
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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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