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ACER Update Principal for a Day Community and business leaders throughout Queensland will next week experience life as a school principal when they participate in the Principal for a Day program that is being held from 23 to 27 May to coincide with State Education Week. Principal for a Day is a collaboration between schools and their communities that aims to increase and strengthen relationships, based on knowledge and understanding, between the private sector and education. It is a unique opportunity for business and community leaders to shadow a school principal to gain a first hand behind-the-scenes experience of the strengths and challenges facing our schools every day. Victoria’s Principal for a Day event takes place this year on Tuesday 23 August. The program is a joint partnership between ACER and the Victorian Department of Education and Early Childhood Development (DEECD) and has been running in Victoria since 2001. Schools and community and business leaders interested in participating in the 2011 event can obtain more information from www.acer.edu.au/pfad or by contacting Ms Viv Acker on 03 9277 5617 or email .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) NAB Schools First Only one week remains to enter the NAB Schools First Student Award. Implemented for this first time this year, the award gives students an opportunity to implement their own school-community partnership idea. There are five awards up for grabs, with each award including $2000 to help implement the school-community partnership idea, mentoring opportunities, support from the NAB Schools First team and an Apple iPad for the student. Applications close at 5pm on Friday 27 May 2011. For the third consecutive year, schools are invited to apply for a Seed Funding and Impact Award and be in the running to share in over $5 million. In 2011, 60 Impact Award winners will receive $50 000 each and 50 Seed Funding winners will receive $25 000 each. Seed Funding and Impact Award applications open on 20 June and close on 29 July. The winners will be announced in September, followed by the announcement of State and National Awards in October and November. To find out more about NAB Schools First and to download application forms, awards criteria, guidelines and Terms and Conditions visit www.schoolsfirst.edu.au or call 1800 649 141. Research Conference 2011 The ACER Research Conference 2011 Indigenous Education: Pathways to success will be held in Darwin on 7-9 August. The conference will focus on what we can learn from research about creating and sustaining positive educational outcomes for Indigenous students. Presenters will highlight the conditions, contexts, curriculum, pedagogy and practices that establish pathways to success for Indigenous students. The keynote speakers are: Professor Jeannie Herbert, Charles Sturt University, NSW; Professor Lester-Irabinna Rigney, Flinders University, SA; Professor Jonathon Carapetis, Menzies School of Health Research, NT; and Professor Lorna Williams, University of Victoria BC, Canada. The conference will be relevant to those directly involved in Indigenous education as well as those concerned more broadly with what we can learn from research about creating and sustaining positive educational outcomes for Indigenous students. Early bird registrations close 1 July. For more information including the full conference program visit www.acer.edu.au/conference « Back to eNews
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Principal for a Day

Community and business leaders throughout Queensland will next week experience life as a school principal when they participate in the Principal for a Day program that is being held from 23 to 27 May to coincide with State Education Week.

Principal for a Day is a collaboration between schools and their communities that aims to increase and strengthen relationships, based on knowledge and understanding, between the private sector and education. It is a unique opportunity for business and community leaders to shadow a school principal to gain a first hand behind-the-scenes experience of the strengths and challenges facing our schools every day.

Victoria’s Principal for a Day event takes place this year on Tuesday 23 August. The program is a joint partnership between ACER and the Victorian Department of Education and Early Childhood Development (DEECD) and has been running in Victoria since 2001. Schools and community and business leaders interested in participating in the 2011 event can obtain more information from www.acer.edu.au/pfad or by contacting Ms Viv Acker on 03 9277 5617 or email .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

NAB Schools First

Only one week remains to enter the NAB Schools First Student Award. Implemented for this first time this year, the award gives students an opportunity to implement their own school-community partnership idea. There are five awards up for grabs, with each award including $2000 to help implement the school-community partnership idea, mentoring opportunities, support from the NAB Schools First team and an Apple iPad for the student. Applications close at 5pm on Friday 27 May 2011.

For the third consecutive year, schools are invited to apply for a Seed Funding and Impact Award and be in the running to share in over $5 million. In 2011, 60 Impact Award winners will receive $50 000 each and 50 Seed Funding winners will receive $25 000 each. Seed Funding and Impact Award applications open on 20 June and close on 29 July. The winners will be announced in September, followed by the announcement of State and National Awards in October and November.

To find out more about NAB Schools First and to download application forms, awards criteria, guidelines and Terms and Conditions visit www.schoolsfirst.edu.au or call 1800 649 141.

Research Conference 2011

The ACER Research Conference 2011 Indigenous Education: Pathways to success will be held in Darwin on 7-9 August. The conference will focus on what we can learn from research about creating and sustaining positive educational outcomes for Indigenous students.

Presenters will highlight the conditions, contexts, curriculum, pedagogy and practices that establish pathways to success for Indigenous students. The keynote speakers are: Professor Jeannie Herbert, Charles Sturt University, NSW; Professor Lester-Irabinna Rigney, Flinders University, SA; Professor Jonathon Carapetis, Menzies School of Health Research, NT; and Professor Lorna Williams, University of Victoria BC, Canada.

The conference will be relevant to those directly involved in Indigenous education as well as those concerned more broadly with what we can learn from research about creating and sustaining positive educational outcomes for Indigenous students. Early bird registrations close 1 July. For more information including the full conference program visit www.acer.edu.au/conference

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