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Whether you are just starting out on your professional journey, pursuing your own personal and professional interests, or in the wonderful position of supporting colleagues in their professional learning, you should seriously consider becoming a personal or institutional member of ACEL.

ACEL is the relevant, influential and vibrant professional association for all educational leaders and the education community.

ACEL taps into the collective and individual expertise of its members, involving them in continuing dialogue and activities to improve educational leadership theory and practice.  ACEL also provides members with avenues to publish, discuss, explore and synthesise issues and ideas on educational leadership theory and practice. ACEL has a multidimensional view of membership from senior level educators to Generation X, Y, and Next.  As a result membership continues to increase, broaden and deepen. 

ACEL is an active, dynamic organisation that constantly creates new ways for members to connect with other members and educational colleagues within Australia and throughout the world. ACEL actively createsspaces where educational leaders go to be informed, nurtured, stretched, affirmed, challenged; where they see future possibilities and key professional links to people and ideas.



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ACEL FastNews

VIC – World leader on school improvement, Professor John Hattie, has spoken at a conference for principals in Melbourne.

NT – Students from Lanhapuy Homelands School have created video clips designed to be watched on mobile phones that encourage smokers to quit or to not take up smoking.

NATIONAL – Head of World Vision, Tim Costello, has said geography should play a prominent role in the national curriculum, to ensure students understand climate change, asylum seekers and issues surrounding indigenous Australians.

NATIONAL – The Australian Psychological Society has criticised federal funding for school chaplains, saying the program is ‘dangerous’ to student’s mental health.

NATIONAL – Teacher education is set to be overhauled next year, with higher entry standards in English and maths being set.

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