DR LYN SHARRATT Writes on Helping Parent Cope During a Pandemic

Renown leader, best selling author and speaker Dr Lyn Sharratt shares via her resources and consulting website “Sharratt Educational Group Inc” a critically important and timely article entitled “Now More Than Ever : Helping Parents Cope During a Pandemic”. Such articles and resources are available from lynsharratt.com and we encourage you to visit the site and discover the important array of materials provided from one of the world’s leading experts in education.

Parents are our students’ first teachers and now their role as teachers is more important than ever! While under duress, parents must be let in on the secrets of how we teach that works best. Most parents and caregivers are at home now, under pressure because they have been laid off, lost their jobs or because they are working from home. In each of these cases, they now also have their children with them – constantly. We may be able to reduce some of that extra pressure by helping them to understand some guiding principles of teaching and learning that we use every day.

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Congratulations Warren Symonds & Scott Dirix CBA Teacher Award Winners

The Commonwealth Bank Teaching Awards were just recently announced; ACEL wish to extend our congratulations to all the recipients and are very proud to acknowledge that New Voice Scholar Scott Dirix [Salisbury East High School] and our very own South Australian President Warren Symonds were honoured as part of the 2020 recipients list.

The CBA Teaching Awards recognise those who have been able to demonstrate initiation of, or contribution to measurable, significant and ongoing improvements in student learning, achieved through identifying students' needs and applying high impact, effective and evidence-based teaching or leadership practices. Join us in congratulating Warren, Scott and the entire list of CBA Award Winners.

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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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Listen to Evan Robb Podcast:
Reading & Writing Tops for Remote Learning

Evan & Laura Robb, Connecting Matters When We Work Alone

Evan Robb will host for the first time in Australia a special webinar for ACEL this June. The renown leader and author recently shared the latest article via the Rob Review [therobbreviewblog.com] entitled “Connecting Matters When We Work Alone” discussing challenges and objective plans for remote learning amidst the COVID-19 crisis. ACEL wish to share this informative article available at The Robb Review where Evan and Laura Robb Share articles, blogs and podcasts on the important and topical educational issues

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Online Support for Collaborative Learning: Getting beyond home-work overload

How do we ensure ‘low threat, high challenge’ learning still happens when school classrooms are empty and schools are closed?

Erica McWilliam adjunct Professor in the faculty of Education Queensland University of Technology and Peter Taylor Adjunct Professor at Griffith University share their paper to assist teachers and educators across the country as they deal with effects and changes inflicted by the current global circumstances and the immediate changes to the regular way of life. 

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Personalized Professional Development : How Empowered Teachers can take Charge of Professional Learning and Growth by McREL International

Internationally admired and ACEL partner McREL International is a nonprofit, nonpartisan education research and development organization that since 1966 has been helping schools, districts, universities, and corporate clients to translate information into knowledge, knowledge into action, and action into results. McREL CEO and President Bryan Goodwin recently collaborated with Pete Hall – former Principal, Anderson Elementary, Sheridan Elementary and Shaw Middle School plus teacher, dean, author and instructional coach Alisa Simeral to author the paper on Personalised Professional Development.

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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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Learn how to increase instructional rigor so that all students can reach higher levels of learning! With Dr Barbara Blackburn

Are you wondering about rigor? For many educators, it is a negative term that means "harder' or "double the work". Dr Barbara Blackburn's internationally recognized, practical, teacher-friendly concept of instructional rigor includes high expectations, scaffolding for instruction, and demonstration of learning.

The Australian Council for Educational Leaders in collaboration with Dr Barbara Blackburn present our latest collaborative webinar series this April through May “Rigor is Not A Four-Letter Word”. Presented across three stand-alone webinars available for individual or series registration this webinar series returns with popular demand following the highly popular and engaging 2019 series.

With its practical advice and helpful tools, Rigor Is NOT a Four-Letter Word will set you and your students on the fast track to higher learning and sustained success.

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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

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

Elevate Program

Curiosity and Powerful Learning Program

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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