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M Arch President's Report Chris Presland NSW Secondary Principals' Council Week 5 | Term 1 | 2018 www.nswspc.org.au SPC Bulletin M arch President's Report Chris Presland Welcome to our first SPC Bulletin for 2018. I hope individual programs simply not connecting properly everyone has had a good start to the school year! I?d with each other. Please hang on. I know it?s easy to like to give a special welcome to our newly appointed say, but I am optimistic that we are working our way colleagues, many of whom were welcomed at the towards resolving many of these problems. At least recent Principal Induction Conference. There is no we are all on the one system now and so it?s easier better position in our system than that of a Principal. for various parts of State Office to focus their Congratulations! attention on specific solutions. A revised eFPT is not far away and our various SPC teams are keeping the The SPC Executive, State Assembly Delegates and DoE project teams well informed of the problems. Reference Groups have all hit the ground running and as always are providing advice on a very wide In response to many of the above issues we have of range of issues. The importance of the SPC (and the course now put together our own SPC training PPA) continues as a major stakeholder in terms of program to help you work in the new world of input into educational directions in our system, and finance. We launched registration for this last week we work closely with the Department and Minister in and the response was unbelievable with the two full doing everything possible to do the best for Public day workshops we had planned reaching maximum Schools in NSW. registrations literally overnight. It says something about ?by the profession, for the profession? and is a In order to keep doing that though, we need every testament to the quality of the SPC capacity. We are member to be as active as possible. Keep attending deeply indebted to our Finance RG leadership team your local Regional meetings, get involved in for the time and effort they have put into this. For the Reference Groups, read and contribute to our many, many people who missed out, we are now multiple forms of communication, attend our working on a schedule of events in various parts of Professional Learning events and make sure you the state to cater for the response. Stay tuned for have a network of colleagues near you. more details soon. We appreciate that from a system administrative The aforementioned response is a very good perspective, it has again been a very frustrating start example of the ?culture? of the SPC. We have always to the year. Issues with attendance data uploads, all been frank and fearless in our feedback, but we are sorts of finance problems, Schools Edge and EBS4 also proud that we are solution focused and that we difficulties, eFPT and budget uploads and ultimately come back to the table with a positive attitude and 1 suggestions for improvement. That is a culture and tradition of which we should all be proud. In the weeks ahead Secretary Mark Scott, Deputy Secretary, Schools Operations and Performance Murat Dizdar, and Deputy Secretary, Educational Services Georgina Harrisson will be travelling around the state holding forums with Principals. I encourage everyone to attend one of these events and to have your say in relation to our future directions and the support we need. Whether the feedback is good or not so good, it is very important for our senior officers to hear directly from you. Dow nload t he SPC phone app now ! The SPC phone app is available for both android and Best wishes, iphone and is a great way to ensure you have the latest Chris P. SPC news and events at your fingertips. The app is free and can be downloaded from the app store. IN THIS ISSUE (Click on the page numbers to go straight to each section) Page 3: SPC Senior Executive Reports Page 7: SPC Executive and Reference Group Reports Page 14: Out and About Page 18: Program Updates Page 21: Opportunities, resources and upcoming events Page 23: SPC Contacts 2 Reports from the SPC Senior Executive Christ ine Del Gallo NESA School Registration Deputy President Schools that are selected for NESA Registration should use both the NESA guide and the DoE NESA matters guide in conjunction to know what evidence to Critical Thinking Test for Year 11? provide to the Inspectors. There are still concerns the intention of the test was that advice from both NESA and DoE do not clearly related to the psychometric inform principals about what is actually needed to analysis by NESA of critical be provided. The guessing game needs to be thinking embedded in HSC improved. courses. Its intention was not to test students to give them solid feedback on their skills and For the inspections, there appears to be a focus on provide information to teachers on how to producing the required documents plus evidence enhance critical thinking in their students. Hence that the staff have been instructed on the the scant feedback to schools. documents and policies and they are following the policies and procedures. The inspectors want to NAPLAN see evidence of clear procedures around policies ? NAPLAN will no longer be connected to HSC what, who, when, how. It seems unnecessary to minimum standard in literacy and numeracy. NESA annotate the evidence, and more is being placed in is investigating the possibilities of online testing or the A-Z tool by principals than is needed for the building the requirements into the HSC courses inspection. instead of separate testing. The NAPLAN trends do not align with Australia?s School Excellence Framework PISA results ? NESA is investigating why. NESA is SEF SaS Version 2 is live. Version 1 is no longer not proposing a Principal Accreditation. The AITSL available. There needs to be ?on balance voluntary scheme is preferred. judgements? against the Statement of Excellence in each Element. NESA is undertaking policy changes that affect DoE in relation to accreditation and professional External validation for 2018 learning. NESA is updating their technology so In Week 5 term 1, all schools that will have External there is less work as a TAA for principals and the Validation in 2018 will be notified, and given the process is clearer. date of the Panel Meeting. Panel members will be given to principals from Week 6. The HSC Curriculum Consultation will in future be a revised process, including a shorter consultation There are 42 equivalent full-time PSLs, which will time. allow the EVs to be more widely spread so each PSL can continue to support schools throughout Schools Excellence the year. In the past, PSLs time in Term 4 was CESE will publish Case Studies of schools that were taken up with EVs and they were not available to Externally Validated in 2016 to be Excelling in 10 or support schools. more Elements. 3 School Plans Craig Pet ersen An excellent advice paper has been produced to Deputy President support principals in the construction and Rural Education production of their School Plan. Out soon. The Rural Ed Reference Group has GTIL been working on an update of the Leadership Development Initiative ? there will be Rural Education Position Paper, extensive support for aspiring leaders through this which will be presented at State program. Applications were reviewed in December Assembly this week.Thanks to Gary Hunt for his 2017. leadership of this group and for the massive effort that they have put into this latest version of the An extended Principal Induction is proposed. paper. There will be the 3 day conference at the start of the school year, followed by video conferencing In answer to questions from a number of and adobe connects throughout the year when colleagues, I can confirm that the Department will appropriate. HR confirms that in the 2018 teacher not be hosting a Rural & Remote Conference in accreditation process, all pre-2004 teachers are in 2018.The plan at this stage is to alternate this the maintenance cycle. conference with the Distance Education Symposium every second year.There is also a The TAA sign off needs more clarification so possibility that the single conference may be principals know the Standards.Beginning teacher replaced with a series of regional workshops which support has been tweaked, with clearer deadlines might facilitate greater involvement by principals and eligibility guidelines. and teachers at their local level. Bulk recruitment of principals process The 2018 Rural and Remote HSC Marking Program Chris Presland and I were observers to part of the was released via SchoolBiz on 23/2. The RRMP is process in December of DoE doing a bulk designed to provide rural secondary teachers with recruitment of principals ? a model to determine a the opportunity to gain a greater understanding of pool of candidates deemed suitable for the HSC marking process. The program was hugely principalship and to proceed to merit selection for Building a culture of leadership, learning and feedback successful in 2017, with 44 out of 50 places being principal positions. DoE deemed that this process allocated to DoE teachers. A total of 96 would help with filling the 45 vacant positions applications were received. Access to HSC Marking created by the 45 new Directors appointed for and associated PL remains a high priority for rural Term 2. teachers, and I encourage you to bring this to the The candidates had four scenario or single aspect attention of your staff.Applications close by interviews that basically consisted of 10 minutes to Monday March 19 2018.
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