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ACER Update Realising the power of professional learning: whole school improvement seminar ACER Institute is hosting a Leading Thinkers seminar on professional learning as an essential element for whole school improvement and creating better outcomes for all students. The seminar, presented by New Zealand education expert, Professor Helen Timperley, will draw on a 10 year research and development project in over 300 schools that have demonstrated substantial and consistent improvements in student achievement. The seminar is being held in Melbourne on 7 August, in Brisbane on 23 August and in Sydney on 24 August 2012. Further information is available on the ACER Institute website. Principal for a Day Time still remains for Victorian business and community leaders to register to become a Principal for a Day on Wednesday 22 August 2012. 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. Principal for a Day 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 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) Inclusive literacy interventions forum ACER and children's development organisation Plan Australia are hosting a forum for researchers, practitioners and policy makers interested in the field of inclusive education to consider inclusive literacy interventions in the Australian and international development arenas. Focusing on how inclusive literacy interventions can support the most marginalised children, the forum will include case studies from South Africa, Papua New Guinea and Indigenous Australia. Deputy Executive Dean of the College of Education at the University of South Africa, Professor Veronica McKay, will deliver a keynote presentation on the development of a South African school workbook development project that currently provides ‘lesson-a-day’ learning materials in all official languages for approximately six million children. The forum, Literacy and the most Marginalised Children: A Dialogue on Australian and International Experience, takes place at the State Library of Victoria in Melbourne on Tuesday 11 September 2012. For further information please contact .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) Research Conference 2012 School Improvement: What does the research tell us about effective strategies? ACER’s annual research conference will take place at the Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre, Darling Harbour, from 26-28 August 2012. Further information including registration details, the conference program and a list of speakers is available from www.acer.edu.au/research-conference. Enquiries may be directed to Margaret Taylor by phone to 03 9277 5403 or by email to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) Higher education student engagement conference ACER and the LH Martin Institute are co-hosting the 2012 National Student Engagement Conference, on the topic ‘Enhancing retention and outcomes in a competitive environment’. The conference will bring together stakeholders from across the sector to discuss how Australian tertiary education can assure and enhance students’ engagement in effective educational practices to boost quality and productivity. The 2012 National Student Engagement Conference takes place in Melbourne on 30-31 October. Two half-day pre-conference workshops will address using technology to engage students and using student voice data for change. Further information, including a list of speakers and registration details, is available from: www.acer.edu.au/highereducation/courses-and-conferences/ « Back to eNews
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Realising the power of professional learning: whole school improvement seminar

ACER Institute is hosting a Leading Thinkers seminar on professional learning as an essential element for whole school improvement and creating better outcomes for all students. The seminar, presented by New Zealand education expert, Professor Helen Timperley, will draw on a 10 year research and development project in over 300 schools that have demonstrated substantial and consistent improvements in student achievement. The seminar is being held in Melbourne on 7 August, in Brisbane on 23 August and in Sydney on 24 August 2012. Further information is available on the ACER Institute website.

Principal for a Day

Time still remains for Victorian business and community leaders to register to become a Principal for a Day on Wednesday 22 August 2012. 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.

Principal for a Day 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 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)

Inclusive literacy interventions forum

ACER and children's development organisation Plan Australia are hosting a forum for researchers, practitioners and policy makers interested in the field of inclusive education to consider inclusive literacy interventions in the Australian and international development arenas.

Focusing on how inclusive literacy interventions can support the most marginalised children, the forum will include case studies from South Africa, Papua New Guinea and Indigenous Australia. Deputy Executive Dean of the College of Education at the University of South Africa, Professor Veronica McKay, will deliver a keynote presentation on the development of a South African school workbook development project that currently provides ‘lesson-a-day’ learning materials in all official languages for approximately six million children.

The forum, Literacy and the most Marginalised Children: A Dialogue on Australian and International Experience, takes place at the State Library of Victoria in Melbourne on Tuesday 11 September 2012. For further information please contact .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

Research Conference 2012
School Improvement: What does the research tell us about effective strategies?

ACER’s annual research conference will take place at the Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre, Darling Harbour, from 26-28 August 2012. Further information including registration details, the conference program and a list of speakers is available from www.acer.edu.au/research-conference. Enquiries may be directed to Margaret Taylor by phone to 03 9277 5403 or by email to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

Higher education student engagement conference

ACER and the LH Martin Institute are co-hosting the 2012 National Student Engagement Conference, on the topic ‘Enhancing retention and outcomes in a competitive environment’. The conference will bring together stakeholders from across the sector to discuss how Australian tertiary education can assure and enhance students’ engagement in effective educational practices to boost quality and productivity.

The 2012 National Student Engagement Conference takes place in Melbourne on 30-31 October. Two half-day pre-conference workshops will address using technology to engage students and using student voice data for change. Further information, including a list of speakers and registration details, is available from: www.acer.edu.au/highereducation/courses-and-conferences/

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