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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

QLD - Griffith University Professor Bruce Burton has said that Queensland is not showing sufficient support for anti-bullying programs in schools, including the Queensland-developed Acting Against Bullying program.

VIC - The Australian Education Union has launched an advertising campaign that calls for state Labor and the Coalition to improve public education. There are less than three months before the Victorian state election.

NATIONAL - Are school uniforms the great leveller - or are they becoming status symbols? Ainslie MacGibbon reports in 'The Age'.

VIC - The Education Department has been accused of 'bullying' and 'coercing' parents into approving a school merger.

NT - Figures released by the Northern Territory Education Department have revealed that there has been little improvement in attendance rates in Indigenous communities at the end of the first semester in 2010.

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