ACER Leadership Centre
About ACER Leadership Centre
The ACER Leadership Centre has a national focus on providing practical support to the professional learning and work of current and aspiring educational leaders throughout Australia.
Leadership Team:
Dr Neil Carrington: Director ACER Leadership Centre
Mr Tony McGruther: Director Leadership Projects
Ms Viv Acker: Senior Project Leader
Current Projects
Creating a Performance Development Culture
The ACER Leadership Centre, through its National Director Dr Neil Carrington, designs and delivers tailored workshops on performance development. These workshops make explicit the difference between performance appraisal, performance management and performance development.
ACER Evidence-Led Leader Series
Understanding NAPLAN
Using Evidence Leading Literacy and Numeracy Learning
Presented by ACER Leadership Centre in partnership with Australian Primary Principals Association (APPA), Australian Secondary Principals Association (ASPA), Australian Heads of Independent Schools (AHISA) and Catholic Secondary Principals Australia (CaSPA).
Educational Leadership Feedback Instrument (ELFI)
The ELFI has been designed to allow Principals, Assistant Principals and aspirant leaders to gain unfiltered feedback from a range of sources. The Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) collaborates with Full Circle Feedback in the delivery of the 360-degree feedback survey instrument.
Executive Seminar Series
The Executive Seminar Series brings together top international and local experts with tertiary education executives from institutions throughout the region in small group seminars. This setting allows for an interactive exchange of ideas, sharp debate, and critical examination of new approaches to management and leadership, to enable our institutions to be key players at regional, national and international levels.
Principal for a Day – National industry/education partnership program
The mission of Principal for a Day™ is to increase and strengthen relationships, based on knowledge and understanding, between the private sector and education. Partnerships between key leaders in education, business and the wider community are especially important. There is ample evidence, from OECD in particular, on the strong relationship between education and employment, and social harmony and economic prosperity, at individual and societal levels, is well supported.
Technical Leadership: Thinking and Planning Strategically
This project is in its third year of a three year contract with the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development. It delivers professional learning and mentoring to 75 aspiring leaders in Victorian government schools.
