7 November 2017

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ACSP Rome Pilgrimage

ACSP is offering a Pilgrimage to Rome with accommodation, all breakfasts and some dinners included as well as all tours and guides. There is a minimum of 20 principals per group and a maximum of 25. ASCP will also subsidise the group cost by $10,000 dollars, which will reduce the cost considerably depending on the number. Etihad Airlines will also offer discounted air fare to our Pilgrims. Once you register as a Pilgrim please email Julie King at executiveofficer@acsp.catholic.edu.au so that the code to get the discounted fare can be sent to you.

NESA Accreditation Sessions

NESA is hosting a number of sessions for existing and pre-2004 teachers on accreditation The sessions are already proving popular with over 3,000 teachers booked in. Some sessions are in fact fully booked.

to ensure as many. This is their opportunity to talk to NESA firsthand about accreditation requirements from 2018 on.

Are you a Principal who supports Parent Engagement practices in your school? Would you like to find out more about Parent Engagement?

Government, Independent and Catholic School Principals, you are invited to share your thoughts. By participating in a short Primary school survey you can support improvement around the understanding of effective parent engagement.

This cross-sectoral DET* funded research project is being undertaken in partnership between the University of Southern Queensland (USQ), the Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth (ARACY) and Catholic School Parents Australia (CSPA).

The survey findings will help towards developing resources to assist principals across all sectors to add to their understanding of strategies to engage parents in their children’s education.

You are invited to get involved to ensure your sector has a voice.

Please note the surveys are due to close in October 2017.

Pasi Sahlberg Keynote from ACSP May Conference Transcript

Now, let’s assume that we go back in time a little bit. Let’s say that this is May 2001, and somebody giving a keynote asked this question, “Where would you go if you could go anywhere in the world to look for interesting inspiration and examples about successful education systems, to learn something useful for your own work, your leadership, where would you go?” New Zealand? How about United States of America? How about England? Scotland? Germany? Sweden?

The education systems that had a reputation 16 years ago were places like Australia, New Zealand, England, United States, Sweden, Norway, Germany, and of course, France. The French still think that they have the best education system in the world. But nobody would ever mention Finland because very few people actually knew anything about Finland or Finnish education. So that’s how new this whole thing is.

Pak Tee Ng Keynote from ACSP May Conference Transcript

I have the privilege of speaking with you about the Singapore story. For some time now, Singapore has been in the limelight because of its results in international league tables, however, I think that is not the main point. For us, in Singapore, we are much more concern about the education of our children. So when many people come to Singapore nowadays to visit hoping to see some spectacular magic, there isn’t any. Education is not about a race on league tables.

Education is about hope, the future for our children and bringing up our next generation, so that they are people with morality, with honour and with life skills for their future and the empathy to take care of one another. The Singapore story is not about the glory of international test results. It really is about the hard work, tenacity, and sacrifice of a few generations of educators to achieve success for all.

Enhance TV

EnhanceTV is a not for profit video streaming service for teachers used in thousands of Australian classrooms. Curated by a community of education content experts, primary teachers will be able to easily find, clip and share the best educational programs for their classroom. Sign up here during term four to secure the discount

With EnhanceTV working alongside practising teachers, the classroom-ready videos will support the Australian Curriculum, enhance classroom learning and engage your students.

APPA has partnered with EnhanceTV and worked together to offer schools a number of special discounts only available during Term Four.

• Firstly, individual teachers can sign up for a generous one year basic subscription at zero cost. This allows access to 40,000 movies, documentaries and educational television programs and is capped at 2GB per month of streaming (about 15 video clips or two movies each month.)
• For heavier users of video, EnhanceTV have a teacher subscription where users can can get access to 5GB of bandwidth each month for 20% off the normal price, so just $3.20 per month
• And for whole school subscriptions, the price is discounted by 20% making it just $3.20 per student per year, which gives every teacher access to more features, student access, classification controls, user data and a simple sign on to make logging in easier.

These discounts are only available during term four so to access them go to: http://earlyaccess.enhancetv.com.au/appa and enter the promo code APPAETV during the registration process.

Privacy Update – Is Your School Prepared

Your school could face penalties of up to $1.8 million if it fails to protect the privacy of its students, parents, volunteers and staff. From 22 February 2018, changes to the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) (the Act) will introduce a mandatory data breach notification scheme (Amendments). The Amendments will place new and onerous obligations on organisations who handle personal information, which includes almost all non-govern¬ment schools. In Australia, a mandatory data breach notifica¬tion scheme was recommended as early as 2008 by the Australian Law Reform Commission. Some nine years later this recommendation is becoming a reality and Australian non-government schools need to be ready.

What is an Eligible Data Breach (EDB)?

The Act protects “personal information”, being information about an individual from which their identity can be reasonably ascertained. Relevantly, Australian Privacy Principle 11 requires organisa¬tions subject to the Act to ensure the security of per¬sonal information it holds, and to actively consider whether it is permitted to retain that information.

ACEL Executive Leadership Program
Adaptive Leadership in a Post Truth Era

3 x 2 day workshops

Educational leaders are deemed to possess the knowledge and skills to lead their schools and systems. In a post-truth era which is volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous, it is vital that leaders continue to update their capabilities and learn to adapt to the rapidly changing environment.

Aasha Murthy, CEO of ACEL has designed and is the convenor of this unique program with content derived from diverse fields woven together to provide holistic professional development for leaders at various stages in their careers. The program is designed with a strong emphasis on innovation, collaboration and creativity with opportunities for reflection, group interaction, experimental learning, and exposure to daily practices.

Program Dates & Costs

Workshop 1: Friday 16 and Saturday 17 March
Workshop 2: Friday 8 and Saturday 9 June
Workshop 3: Friday 24 and Saturday 25 August
Cost: $3500 (includes 3 nights accommodation + meals

ACEL WORKSHOP: Managing Change and Transition

2 day workshop

Managing Change and Transition is a 2-day program which provides senior educational leadership with an in-depth and variegated understanding of the nature of change from an individual, group, and organisational perspective. It focuses on a range of models, tools, techniques, and theories from academe and practice that inform, shape and underwrite both successful change interventions, and the work of leading and managing change.

The program has been designed and facilitated by Aasha Murthy, CEO, ACEL. A key feature of this program is the collaborative inquiry and collective wisdom that senior educational leadership will model as it seeks to sift through the masses of change literature to hone into that which is important, relevant and actionable given their grounded realities.

Program Dates & Costs

Cohort 1: Friday 9 and Saturday 10 March
Cohort 2: Friday 31 August and Saturday 1 September
Cost: $1200 (includes 1 night accommodation + meals)

Values And Virtues

In recent years, education departments and schools have placed a highly significant focus on values. Yet, there has been far less emphasis on how indi¬viduals could actually reach these values. Values, defined as “principles or standards of behaviour”, are often espoused as a “school’s moral compass”. They are usually regarded as general goals to work towards, which can drive conduct. If values are considered the goal, then virtues are the way to get there.

Virtues are more specific and explicit than gen¬eral values, in reflecting individual human charac¬teristics. Aristotle is credited with saying, “a life of virtue not only creates happiness for individuals, but contributes to the well-being of the community”. What emphasis does your school place on virtues?

Most school websites list core values and then claim that these selected values underpin all that their school community does. Some schools further claim that the values “are enacted daily by each member of the school community as they interact with each other”. But are they? Espoused ideals or standards of value are often a long way from actual individual behaviours. Too often, there is a rhetoric-reality gap.

Virtues are individual character traits which express and embody values. Virtues prescribe ethical character. For example, you might say that you personally value “financial security”, yet cheat on your income tax return to improve prosperity. The supposed value of financial security will be ethically weak and hypocritical, unless it is underpinned by the virtues of honest gain and hard work.

CSSA Forum: Promoting Wellbeing Child Safe Schools and Learning Cultures For both Primary and Secondary Principals

Monday November 13 2017 is now opened for registration

This is the second Wellbeing Forum held by the CSSA. The Forum will look at important issues such as establishing child safe schools, the major report from the Royal Commission on assessing the degree of child sexual abuse in schools, being able to identify these risks and which institutions are most at risk. The Forum will also look at linking wellbeing to learning. register here with your username and password. If you don’t have your username and password contact us at forum.division@cssa.catholic.edu.au or phone 94863555

Keeping Students Cyber-Safe

Our world is changing rapidly and technol¬ogy is transforming the way we work and learn. It is imperative that we prepare our students for the future… Have you heard this said many times before? I have, probably a hundred times or more. The world (and technology) has been rapidly evolving and changing since before Edison invented the light globe.

In the current political landscape, we are being encouraged to ensure we build our students’ ca¬pacity to work in the 21st Century. There are many challenges our students will face in the future, as they live through the most significant disruption of the world of work since the industrial revolution. I personally am more concerned with the challenges they face right now and you should be too.

As a school leader, I understand that Australia’s future will rely on science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) – disciplines at the core of innovation (Finkle, 2015) – and I have been a staunch advocate for curriculum development and teacher professional development in this area.

But when we discuss our students’ futures and the skills they need to be successful, we rarely talk about cyber safety, resilience and the ability to deal with online bullying. To effectively prepare our students for the future, we need to prepare them to thrive right now.

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