COVID -19: A “new normal” and other quotidian proclamations

“COVID 19 has arguably changed both your organisation and its stakeholders. In doing so, it has also radically disrupted the form, function and processes for fulfilment of your organisation’s value promise in a post-COVID-19 world.”

CEO of The Australian Council for Educational Leaders and author of Being! Five Ways Of Leading Authentically In An i-Connected World shares her lead perspective with the education community amidst the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

In his book, End Game, popular science writer Bryan Walsh argues that throughout history, viruses, bacteria and parasites that cause disease, have killed more of humankind than either wars or natural disasters. The evidence appears to bear him out: Malaria kills half a million people every year; HIV has killed over thirty million people, while infecting nearly seventy-five million, since its detection in the last century, and; finally, notwithstanding the availability of an effective vaccine since 1796, over three hundred million people died because of smallpox in the last century.

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Schools are moving online, but not all children start out digitally equal

By Pasi Shalberg and Amy Graham

“We are witnessing a massive global social experiment with children and how they deal with this new way of learning.”

Professor Pasi Sahlberg and Amy Graham share their latest perspective in The Conversation on the digital divide of our students being highlighted by the current COVID-19 pandemic and learning from home consequences More than one billion young people around the world are now shut out of classrooms due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Even in Australia where many schools remain open, many parents have chosen to keep their kids home. Some Australian non-government schools have already shut their doors and moved classes online. Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania have ended the term early so teachers can prepare for online learning in the second term. Queensland has closed schools and moved to online classes. For some children, learning online will be little more than an inconvenience. For others however, this will further magnify their learning disadvantage.

Originally published in The Conversation, 26th March 2020.

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The Australian Council for Educational Leaders opens access to the Resource Center for all

During these unprecedented times we are currently facing ACEL wish to provide support and opportunity to your ongoing professional development. With this in mind we wish to open up and invite all our readers and educators to visit our Resource Centre.

Here you will find over 1,000 articles and resources from the leading local and global experts in education with all articles specifically curated against AITSL professional practices standards.

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Important Message in regards to working from home from the ATO

The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) is announcing special arrangements this year due to COVID-19 to make it easier for people to claim deductions for working from home. The new arrangement will allow people to claim a rate of 80 cents per hour for all their running expenses, rather than needing to calculate costs for specific running expenses. Multiple people living in the same house can claim this new rate. For example, a couple living together could each individually claim the 80 cents per hour rate. The requirement to have a dedicated work from home area has also been removed. ACEL wish to share this updated and important information with our members and subscribers.

Click the below link to read the full overview and media release.

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NEW DATES CONFIRMED

PETER DEWITT
INSTRUCTIONAL LEADERSHIP

Due the current COVID-19 situation the recent Peter De Witt worskhops to held this past March were postponed. We are pleased to announce new dates for these workshops have been confirmed for early November, with registrations now re-open.

"Peter DeWitt is one of the brightest minds in education. His insights are relevant and current. There is no one I would rather read in the field of education today." - Dr Todd Whitaker

WORKSHOP FOCUS
Leaders are often told they need to be instructional leaders because this type of leadership is supported by research, and can have an enormous impact on student learning. Although instructional leadership is one of the most researched forms of leadership, very little practical insight into how to implement it exists, and many leaders struggle to put it into practice. Peter DeWitt, Ed.D. will take the research behind instructional leadership, and dive deeper into six areas that he found is crucial to practices that lead to instructional leadership.

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NEW THREE PART EXCLUSIVE WEBINAR SERIES

LYN SHARRATT
CLARITY: WHAT MATTERS MOST IN LEARNING,
TEACHING, AND LEADING

The Australian Council for Educational Leaders are very proud to present Lyn Sharratt as she presents her three-part webinar series “Clarity: What Matters MOST in Learning, Teaching, and Leading”.

Bringing ‘CLARITY’ to the elements that sharpen precision-in-practice ensures knowing ‘where to next’. How to gain ‘CLARITY’ is based on a set of interrelated concepts deployed within an evidence-proven framework and implemented consistently and reflectively across systems, schools and classrooms.

This Webinar Series, in three parts: 1. Learning; 2. Teaching; and, 3. Leading, is built on solid research. There are no silver bullets or commercial programs that lead to continuous student improvement. While individual inferences can be made by interpreting many sources of data or evidence, the real power of data resides in the ‘aha’ outcomes of collaborative conversations from ‘roll-up-your sleeves’ work with ALL stakeholders.

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Rigor is Not a Four Letter Word
Dr Barbara Blackburn
29th Apr, 6th May & 13th May 2020
ONLINE WEBINAR

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

CLARITY: What Matters MOST in Learning, Teaching, and Leading
Lyn Sharratt
2nd, 9th, & 16th July 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

ACEL 2020 National Disability & Inclusion Conference
7th - 8th Oct 2020
Brisbane QLD

Instructional Leadership
Peter DeWitt
2nd, 4th & 6th November 2020

Leading In Difficult Times
Todd Whitaker
ONLINE WEBINAR

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.

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ACEL in partnership with The Brainary Proudly Present The Human Rights Game

A new educational game for students and schools teaching rights, freedoms and inclusivity.

Human Rights affects everyone all over the world. The first aim of The Human Rights Game is to make a positive difference by teaching children and teens about their rights, freedoms and responsibilities as individuals and groups of individuals in educational settings. We underpinned our educational game with the United Nations 30 Articles and its three pillars (Freedom, Equity, and Dignity), so that it has contemporary relevance and authenticity.

The second aim of our game is to help students learn how to make better choices in a rapidly changing world whereby mores, customs, ethics, and values are learnt from non-traditional sources often with materialistic and prejudice underpinnings. Much of the learning takes place though discussion, short storytelling and problem-solving.

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Elevate Program

Curiosity and Powerful Learning Program

2020 ACEL New Voice Scholarships

ACEL Resources In Action

The responsibility to lead: Education at a global crossroads

Special Monograph Edition From Tom Bentley
Executive Director for Policy and Impact, RMIT University

In this monograph I address the role of educational leadership in facing contemporary global challenges which threaten crisis and conflict across our societies, environment and institutions.

I argue that education cannot escape a shared responsibility for renewing the shared contexts – social, economic, ethical and environmental – in which we live our lives.

The pressures and risks of global change are real for young people, forming their everyday experience and shaping the world for which education must help them prepare. The challenges require that we learn how to act in new ways, individually and collectively. .

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Have you listened to the Leaders Lounge Podcast Today?

With regular episode update the Australian Leaders Lounge is available FREE to educators via audio podcast. With one on one and panel interviews and in depth discussions recorded with leading educational experts in their field we invite you to listen at home or on the go today.

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