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We asked principals if they wanted to leave their jobs. The results were devastating
Let’s hope today is a landmark day in Australian education and we see some urgent ministerial action. The Federal Minister, Jason Clare MP, is a keynote presenter at the Australian Secondary Principals Association (ASPA) National Summit, and there will rightly be much attention given to his speech following the release last Friday, March 22, of …
Leaders: Could we please just get this done quickly?
Educators across all sectors are pressed for time. Here’s how we can manage one constant drain on our attention. Leaders: Make meetings meaningful. How many meetings have you attended that you can truly say were a productive use of everyone’s time and achieved their purpose? How many meetings have you run yourself that achieved their …
How to lead the leaders
In its infancy, the Australian Council for Educational Leaders (ACEL) was a male-centric organisation. At its 50th anniversary, …
So much love: school leaders answered the call through COVID and bushfires. Now love’s gone
Each year, the Australian Principal Occupational Health and Wellbeing Survey of nearly 2500 school leaders comes to similar, and disheartening, conclusions – the accumulation of demands, and generous preferring of others ahead of themselves, leaves too many school leaders languishing. And while we continue to encourage school leaders to seek help and be responsible for …
Impact: how to tell your extraordinary teaching story
Last week John Cole noted here that the current Highly Accomplished and Lead teachers (HALT) certification process is …
Why the push for tremendous teachers ground to a HALT
For more than five years there has been a vision to put a Highly Accredited or Lead Teacher …
How the spirit of lockdown leaders prevailed in the crisis
This report is from the Educational Leadership SIG Symposium – Educational Leadership in crisis across Australia and New …
The invisible and invaluable work of female school principals
Women are more likely to be principals in schools serving highly disadvantaged communities. This has implications in terms …
How school principals respond to govt policies on NAPLAN. (Be surprised how some are resisting)
School principals in Australia are increasingly required to find a balance between improving student achievement on measurable outcomes (such as NAPLAN) and focusing energies on things that can’t as easily be measured; such as how well a school teaches creative and critical thinking, how it connects with its local community or how collaboratively teachers on …
Three issues I have with the minister’s Gayby Baby intervention
Many thousands of words have been written about Education Minister, Adrian Piccoli, intervening to stop Burwood Girls High School screening the documentary film Gayby Baby in school time. As an educator and educational researcher, three important issues were raised for me. But first a quick recap of the episode. What happened The NSW Education Minister …