Dare to Lead March 2011 Newsletter
Principals Australia Indigenous education newsletter. Issue 51, March 2011
In this issue:
- Dare to Lead 2011
- Support from Jurisdictions
- Conferences 2011
- Workshops 2011
- Dare to Lead Steering Committee
- Dare to Lead Excellence Awards
- Cultural Integrity
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In all parts of the country, the school year is well underway, and alongside that are high levels of Dare to Lead activity.
In 2011, as in 2010, there will be a lot of focused work, where our team's professional support will be directed towards schools and clusters who have invited closer involvement. That does not mean that other areas will miss out....we hope to offer new ideas and information for all of our 5300+ school members during the year.
School members will be familiar with their State and Territory Coordinators, most of whom continue from 2010; in the Northern Territory, we welcome Maree Bredhauer who is the President of ANSTEL and who will share her role as Dare to Lead Coordinator for the Territory. For full contact details of all of the Coordinators, check the website at www.daretolead.edu.au
We thank those who responded to the late-2010 online survey about Dare to Lead; it provided us with a rich source of information about how we are tracking and to what extent we are supporting your needs. There was a response from a wide cross-section of schools and in broad summary, responses showed that almost 78% respondents perceived that their Dare to Lead involvement was having a positive impact on their Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students' outcomes; a similar number commented that their Dare to Lead involvement had led to higher levels of professional discussion In their schools. It has given us some data on which to reflect about future directions.
SUPPORT FROM JURISDICTIONS |
While the bulk of Dare to Lead's project funding comes from DEEWR, there is an increasing volume of funding coming from individual jurisdictions. It is through the generous support of various State and Territory jurisdictions (both financially and in-kind) that Dare to Lead is able to have the footprint that it does. Clearly, jurisdictions see the benefit of the complementary professional work that we do and so engage to provide our professional services to school leaders. In some cases, Dare to Lead is engaged to provide very specific and mutually-agreed programs and in other cases, jurisdictions simply provide support to the project in the knowledge that their school leaders will receive benefits from the professional development activities and discussions. Dare to Lead extends its thanks to WA DET, WA Catholic Education Office, NT DET, Education Queensland, Qld CEC, NSW CEC, NSW DET, ACT DET, Victoria DEECD, Victoria CEC, Tasmania CEC, Tasmania DoE and Edmund Rice Education Australia. In addition, there are several individual Regions who are also engaging Dare to Lead to undertake specific work in their locations.
We know that many of you are already registered for the first of our 2011 National Conferences 'Levelling the Playing Field' with the theme of 'transitions', to be held in Canberra on April 1. Registrations are open until the end of March at http://yooyahcloud.com/DTL/9VmYT/flyer_and_rego_form_final_editable.pdf
Pencil into your calendars the other National Conference dates: MELBOURNE: August 19, 'Engagement' and SYDNEY, October 14, 'What has worked?'. Check the website at www.daretolead.edu.au . We will soon be calling for papers and workshops at these later conferences.
Schools are invited to have Executive staff and key teachers participate in Dare to Lead's workshop based program - Developing Quality Leaders for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education program. This is a rigorous program with the first 2 days designed to provide for personal growth, as well as give participants a number of practical applications to draw from in their school communities. All aspects of the program encompass the directions of the National Agenda in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education. The program will engage participants in investigating critical success factors directly connected to their school/context. Participants will then be invited to undertake an inquiry over approximately 10 weeks matched to their personal or school context. This will form the basis for Day 3 of the program.
These Leadership Development Program workshops are planned for:
- Launceston
- Western Sydney
- Canberra
- Alice Springs
- Adelaide
- Perth
- Brisbane
- Townsville
- Shepparton
- Melbourne
To download the flyer, calendar of dates and regsitration form please click here DARE TO LEAD STEERING COMMITTEE |
While the work of Dare to Lead is outlined via its contract with DEEWR, it is also guided in its direction by the Steering Committee of the project. In late February, the Committee was renewed and Dare to Lead is privileged to be guided and advised by an esteemed group of education colleagues, all of whom themselves are Aboriginal / Torres Strait Islander: Prof Jeannie Herbert (Chair), Gina Archer (representing IECBs), Assoc Prof Robert Somerville AM (representing Senior Officers National Network, Indigenous Education), Dyonne Anderson (representing National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Principals Association),Professor Peter Buckskin, Professor Mark Rose. One other is to be appointed. Each of these members is very generous with their time and commitment and is very valuable to the project as it maps its path ahead.
DARE TO LEAD EXCELLENCE AWARDS |
Recommendations for the 2010 recipients have been made to the Minister who will soon make some announcements. We are anticipating that the Minister will make the presentations personally to the High Achievement recipients. Thank you to the many schools who applied, and to the selection panel members who were very generous with their time in processing the applications. Why not check the website to see what happened in the schools of recipients of earlier years? http://www.daretolead.edu.au/DTL08_ProjOut_ExcellenceAwards
Dare to Lead always wants to ensure that the work that it does has 'cultural integrity' and as such has a small team which keeps this in focus. One of the outcomes of this team's work will be a workshop package which will be available for delivery to schools , in conjunction between Dare to Lead and the local community. More about this soon.
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