Providing quality professional development for schools

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Ensuring all school leaders have access to quality professional learning

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Strengthening school leaders capacity to lead whole school change

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Professional development by the profession for the profession

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Latest News 25/1/2012 Principals Australia to be renamed PRINCIPALS AUSTRALIA INSTITUTE As Chair of the Board of Principals Australia, I take great pleasure in announcing an exciting and significant change to our organisation. Following a decision made at a Board meeting in late 2011, Principals Australia will now be known as Principals Australia Institute. The Board considers that the introduction of the word institute ensures our new name better reflects our organisations core business of professional learning and development for current and aspiring principals. As an organisation we will be looking to increase our value to the profession by expanding our activities and services for current and aspiring principals and school leaders. Our projects all continue their work within the contractual arrangements with federal, state and territory governments. Principals Australia Institute looks forward to working with you, with our focus now even more clearly centered on providing easy access to high quality professional learning, and to supportive and dynamic collegial networks as well as playing a major part in efforts to raise the status of the profession generally. The Honorable Susan Lenehan Chair of the Board Principals Australia Institute 25 January 2012   John Laing Award The John Laing Professional Development Award is a peer nominated celebration of school leadership and professional learning. Its aim is to celebrate leadership learning: for school leaders by school leaders. SA Principals honoured October 2011 See SA Awards for more information The South Australian Branch of Principals Australia celebrated the 2011 John Laing Professional Development Awards on Monday October 17 at the Education Development Centre, Hindmarsh. Award recipients for 2011 are: Ms Katrina Spencer, SA Primary Principals Association Mr Ray Marino, SA Area School Leaders Association Ms Marie Dorrington, Association of Principals of Catholic Secondary Schools Dr Keren Wicks, SA Special Schools Principals Association Mr Jim Davies, SA Secondary Principals Association. Click here for information, guidelines, nomination forms and previous winners >>>.

National Agenda Exciting new partnership Principals Australia is pleased to announce a new partnership with the Cooperative Research Centre for Young People, Technology and Wellbeing (YAW-CRC) which will promote mental health and wellbeing through three complementary research programs. Visit the YAW-CRC website. L5 Leadership Framework The L5 Framework is an easily accessible professional development frame for leadership teams or individual leaders. The L5 Framework >>> The L5 is also available in different formats designed to suit your needs. For example, L5 Live! professional development sessions, The Learn:Lead:Succeed resource, L5 At Work Online learning modules plus a range of tools for leadership learning. Announcing the new look for the L5 At Work! To have a look go to the new Home page. You will need to change your bookmark for the site. Tell us what you think.   Research Evaluation of MindMatters Buddy Support to Secondary Schools in South West Sydney 2011 The results showed that intervention schools were significantly more likely to ensure internal support by assigning a person responsible for MindMatters (90% vs 38%), forming a core team (79% vs 21%), reporting changes (94% vs 26%) and connectedness (100% vs 21%) and continuing MindMatters implementation (90% vs 33%) than non-intervention schools. Access the report here. MindMatters successful school-based resilience intervention to decrease tobacco, alcohol and marijuana use in high school students. Despite schools theoretically being an ideal setting for accessing adolescents and preventing initiation of substance use, there is limited evidence of effective interventions in this setting. Resilience theory provides one approach to achieving such an outcome through improving adolescent mental well-being and resilience.  2011_MM_One_Stop_Shop_Paper.pdf Interested in keeping up to date in things happening about health and well being? Also try this site recommended by Dr. Katherine Dix Principals Australia researcher with KidsMatter Pimary. For the ARACY eBulletin enquiries@aracy.org.au - you receive a "no fuss" update on health and wellbeing developments and issues to your desk top. Notices

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