ACEL Newsletter

 

ISSUE 5 MARCH 10 2020

Professor Tonia Gray Joins Keynote Line-up for National Early Childhood Conference

JUST ANNOUNCED: Professor Tonia Gray Senior Researcher in the Centre for Educational Research at Western Sydney University will be part of the ACEL 2020 National Early Childhood Conference . Professor Gray’s transdisciplinary research explores the intersection of experiential education, human-nature relationships, and health/wellbeing.  Her twinned passions for teaching and research have earned Tonia several major awards such as the 2019 International Association of Experiential Education Distinguished Researcher of the Year and the prestigious 2014 Australian Award for University Teaching. Prof Gray joins the esteemed line-up of keynote speakers including Prof Pasi Sahlberg, Prof Iram Siraj, Prof Yoichi Sakakihara, ACEL CEO Aasha Murthy and our host Tim Maddren.

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Professor Karen Thorpe Announced for 2020 National Early Childhood Conference

Deputy Director and Group Leader in Early Development, Education and Care at the Institute for Social Science Research at the University of Queensland Professor Karen Thorpe has just been announced to join the keynote line-up for 2020 National Early Childhood Conference. Named in 2019 as one of the Australian Financial Review’s Women of Influence, Prof Thorpe’s research examines the effects of children’s early life experiences on social, learning and health trajectories across the lifespan with particular interest is early childcare and education environments including family context, parent work, quality of care and education, and the early years workforce.

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The Award Winning Journalist and Presenter returns as host of National Conference 2020

ACEL are once again honoured to welcome back one of Australia's most respected journalists as Tony Jones returns to host National Conference 2020 for the second year in a row. As the former host of ABC’s Q&A he brings over 20 years of award-winning journalism to the table and is known for his incisive and probing interviews on the breaking issues of the day. Tony Jones has won pretty much every award an Australian journalist could wish for. He's covered the seminal news events of the last two decades - from the fall of communism in Eastern Europe, through the collapse of apartheid in South Africa, to the rise of the Taliban and, closer to home, the revelations of sexual abuse in remote Aboriginal communities.

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Regional & Institutional [School] Membership 2020 now open for registration

In our continued support of our regional and rural educators and schools ACEL would like to announce that Regional membership is back for registration for 2020. Providing full membership benefits and services – including all recent resource and service additions, regional membership includes a reduced annual fee for our regional schools and educators due to acknowledging the difficulty in distance that these schools face in attending the number of metropolitan events and workshops.

Institutional Group membership is also available for schools across Australia. With schools available to sign up multiple staff members to ACEL membership for a reduced rate with each member still receiving their own individual suite of services and resources.

REGISTER or VIEW OUR FULL RANGE OF BENEFITS

Instructional Leadership
Peter DeWitt
16th - 20th March 2020
VIC - NSW - QLD

 

Rigor is NOT A Four-Letter Word
Barbara Blackburn
29th April - 13th May 2020
ONLINE WEBINAR

ACEL 2020 Disability
& Inclusion Conference

30th April - 1st May 2020
Brisbane QLD

 

Visible Learning
John Hattie
18th - 22nd May 2020
ACT - NSW - QLD

Voice and Aspirations
Dr Russell Quaglia
18th - 27th May 2020
NSW - QLD - SA - NT

 

Developing Resilient Learners
James Notthingham
22nd - 26th June 2020
VIC - NSW - QLD

 

ACEL 2020
Early Childhood Conference

31st Aug - 1st Sep 2020
Melbourne VIC

 

Elevate is ACEL’s innovative mentoring program for current and aspiring educational leaders

Our Elevate Mentoring Program provides you with an opportunity to engage with a recognised and experienced mentor who is outside of your system or school, and who can offer invaluable guidance and support. It offers you the chance to develop professionally to achieve both personal and wider-institutional goals.

ACEL’s strategic plan highlights professional learning, dynamic networks and recognition of excellence as three of our core strategic pillars. The Elevate program aligns with these goals by helping emerging or current leaders develop via one-on-one sessions with an experienced mentor most suited to their needs.

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DISA: Diagnostic Inventory of School Alignment
ACEL Present the tool for the planning of school improvement agendas

DISA is an online diagnostic survey tool, developed by the Leadership Research International (LRI) team at the University of Southern Queensland (USQ), that examines your school’s overall alignment and provides information for the purpose of planning school improvement agendas. DISA is comprised of three surveys customised specifically for staff, parents and students.

School improvement is a whole-school effort. Success is informed by a cohesive and clearly articulated direction that is identified by the school community, particularly the students, staff and parents/carers. DISA provides schools with the means to identify their perceived strengths as well as areas requiring work and gaps that need attention. It includes baseline data and gap analysis to this end.

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Elevate Program

 

Curiosity and Powerful Learning Program

Building Your Leadership Capacity
7th - 8th May 2020
Sydney - NSW

 

Leading School Transformation
14th - 15th May + 12th June 2020
TAS - NSW

New Voice Spotlight: 2018 Awardee Karthika Viknarasah

ACEL New Voice scholarships aim to welcome the recipients into the ACEL network and support the dissemination of new learning and thought. The recipients will be recognised in public as forward-thinking, relevant and responsive educational leaders by peers and the wider education community. Submissions for 2020 are now open and in continuing our spotlight on previous recipients this week we highlight 2018 recipient and Director Choice Childcare Holdings, Karthika Viknarasah. Karthika is an early childhood teacher and director of two day care and OOSH centres, and is also an Accreditation Supervisor for ECTs with NESA. An active member of many early childhood organisations Karthika currently serves as the Vice President of the Australian Childcare Alliance NSW. Since being awarded her 2018 New Voice Scholarship, Karthika has gone on to be an important part of the ACEL community and educational leadership in Australia, writing for leading series Resources In Action, being published as part of New Voice Perspectives and presenting at the National Early Childhood Conference along with her continued leadership in the fields of early childhood education and care. ACEL encourage all emerging voices across Australia to enter your submissions now to be eligible for the 2020 Scholarship Program.

LEARN MORE ABOUT THE NEW VOICE SCHOLARSHIPS
READ KARTHIKA'S NEW VOICE PERSPECTIVE
WATCH THE 2018 NEW VOICE SCHOLARS VIDEO

AEL 2020 Subscription

ACEL’s Australian Educational Leader (AEL) publication, is recognised as a practical journal for the exchange of current research, trends, and innovations and leading publication in its field. It is proved to be a valuable resource for accessing and leading educational practice with contemporary techniques and contexts. AEL is published quarterly with articles and contributions from the leading academics, researchers and educators  on both a local and international level. AEL’s platform aims to encourage collegial discourse among teachers and leaders by promoting collaboration between schools, professional associations and university educators.
The Journal is complimentary with ACEL membership or also available for annula subscription for instiutions and non-members.

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Michael Fullan : Nuance Professional Workshops

“Thanks for providing such a stimulating and educationally enjoyable day”

Professor Michael Fullan is globally renown authority in educational reform with a mandate of helping to achieve the moral purpose of all children learning. The best-selling author led recently led a series of ACEL leadership workshops on ‘Nuance – Why Some Leaders Succeed & Others Fail’ which kicked off ACEL’s impressive line-up of workshops for 2020. The workshops were attended by over 600 educators across Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne and Perth and were universally praised. 

“It was an excellent presentation and workshop, sharing experiences and networking”

These workshops were a shining example of how Professor Fullan as a thought leader, influences the system in Australia and he will be back as a Keynote Speaker at the upcoming ACEL National Conference, to be held in Melbourne from 30 Sept – 2 Oct.

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