NEW Online Professional Development Packages Now Available

ACEL have just released their new 2020 Online Professional Development Packages. Featuring access to 16 live webinar sessions prepared specifically for ACEL, plus digital content and support resources under a single subscription fee. Featuring a line-up of the leading experts such as Lyn Sharratt, Barbara Blackburn, Evan Robb, Todd Whitaker and more these new packages are designed for ease of accessibility from your home, office or school to accompany your PD support.

We are proud to announce the stellar line-up for 2020

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ATO Releases it 2020 Tax Time for Educators Information to assist in planning amide the current COVID-19 pandemic and workplace changes

In response to the ongoing COVID-19 situation the ATO has prepared a range of resources to assist people in the education industry during this difficult period.

As many individual’s working situations may have changed due to the Coronavirus pandemic, it is now more important than ever that teachers understand how to best prepare and lodge their tax returns, to ensure they claim their applicable deductions. The ATO has launched its Tax Time 2020 campaign to help teachers and education professionals understand how to best prepare and lodge their tax returns.
We wish to share these documents and helpful guidelines which will assist educators in preparing their tax returns and outlining what expenses can be claimed in light of current crisis

Teacher Tax Time Poster

Educator Sector Toolkit

Enable Independent Reading: Scanning Pens now Available via ACEL Bookshop

Scanning Pens are the learning and teaching technological aids that is allowing teachers to improve the reading and examination capabilities of those students who suffer from reading difficulties including dyslexia, vision impaired, language barriers and other reading issues inhibiting a students daily progress in the classroom and at home. The acclaimed reading assistant tools are now available ACEL Bookshop with the both the Reader and Exam Pens available in single or Classroom sets.

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Suddenly forced into remote teaching? Dr Selina Samuels shares her tips for structuring your classes and keeping students engaged in online learning

As COVID-19 continues to spread and school closures become more commonplace, educators all over the country are scrambling to get their heads around the necessary technology. You may be asking, “What is a digital learning management platform and does my school have one?” “Is there scope for online submission and marking?” “Should I deploy online communications tools, such as Zoom, to enable face-to-face learning with my students?”

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New Dates Announced for National Disability & Inclusion Conference 2020

Due to the present COVID-19 International Situation the National Disability and Inclusion Conference previously scheduled for April 30th & May 1st was recently advised to be rescheduled.  ACEL and The QLD Department of Education now wish to confirm that the new dates for this year’s event themed “Every. Student. Every. Day” will now be held on Oct 7 & 8. Current registrants have been communicated with for the new dates and registrations for the new Oct 7&8 Dates are now once again open.

New Lyn Sharratt Webinar Series Coming this July

ACEL are proud to announce that Dr Lyn Sharratt will be presenting an exclusive 3 part webinar series this July for ACEL entitled: CLARITY: What Matters MOST in Learning, Teaching, and Leading.

Following her sold out workshops across Australia ACEL are once again thrilled to continue to collaborate with Dr Sharratt with this special webinar series on how to gain ‘CLARITY’ based on a set of interrelated concepts deployed within an evidence-proven framework and implemented consistently and reflectively across systems, schools and classrooms.

Registrations for this special event will open in next week.

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

Impactful Leadership
Evan Robb
10th June & 17th June 2020
ONLINE WEBINAR

ACEL 2020
Early Childhood Conference
31st Aug - 1st Sep 2020
Melbourne VIC

ACEL 2020
National Conference
30th Sep - 2nd Oct 2020
Melbourne VIC

Resources In Action: your FREE Edition of Leadership in Action: Collaborative Leadership in Future Schools by Prof Brian Caldwell

Resources in Action is ACEL’s leadership resource companion providing succinct, easy to implement resources design to support your leadership, lesson and management development across 5 pivotal areas of educational leadership – Management, Leadership, Technology, Teaching and Early Childhood. Each issue is delivered digitally and today we wish to provide you with a special FREE edition of Leadership in Action entitled “Collaborative Leadership in Future Schools” written by Professor Brian Caldwell – Principal Consultant, Educational Transformations; Professor Emeritus, University of Melbourne.

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ACEL invite you to take part in our NEW VOICE Scholarships for 2020. ACEL’s $300,000 commitment to supporting the emerging voices in educational leadership

Each scholarship welcomes 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.

The ACEL “New Voice” initiative recognises ‘new voices’ in educational leadership, acknowledging those as forward thinking, relevant and response to issues in education.

Recipients of the ACEL ‘New Voice’ Scholarships will receive:

• Complimentary attendance at the 2020 ACEL National Conference, including tickets to social events.
• Attendance at the National Awards Ceremony and Gala Dinner [Where the New Voice recipients will be recognised as part of the ceremony.]
• Return flights to/from Melbourne
• 1 Year ACEL individual membership
• 1 Year Leaders Lounge subscription
• 1 Year complimentary registration to attend their choice of any ACEL workshop
• 1 Year complimentary registration to attend their choice of any ACEL leadership program
• 1 Year Free subscription to Resources In Action Publication Series [all 5 categories]
• 1 Year Free subscription to The Australian Educational Leader Journal.

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Elevate Program

Curiosity and Powerful Learning Program

Dr Lyn Sharratt The AEL Interview

“There is no one program that will ‘fix’ students and teachers, so my advice to all principals across the globe is to invest wisely in PL that is evidence-based to build a common language and to develop teacher capacity to teach all students.”

Dr Lyn Sharratt coordinates the doctoral internship program in the Leadership, Higher and Adult Education Department at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto. Lyn is a highly accomplished practitioner, researcher, author and presenter, and has presented at numerous workshops and conferences and is the author and presenter of both the best-selling book and acclaimed workshop series “Clarity: What matters most in Learning, Teaching and Leading.

To coincide with the announcement of her new exclusive ACEL webinar series we invite you to read the recent Spotlight interview from The Australian Educational Leader with Dr Lyn Sharratt.

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