NSW Secondary Principals’ Council Annual Conference 2014 CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY BATHURST 10 -12 JUNE
BLUE SKY THINKING RED DIRT REALITY
Conference Gold Sponsors Partner Western Organising Team
Ken Barwick! Chad Bliss ! Margaret Carey! Sue Francisco! Charles Gauci! Oberon ! Canobolas Rural Henry Lawson Cobar ! Cowra ! High School Technology ! High School High School High School High School
Janis Glasson! Don Harvey! Geoff Hastings ! Susan Jones! David Lloyd! Molong ! Wellington ! Denison College Blayney ! Orange ! Central School High School Bathurst ! High School High School High Campus
Keith Peasley! Craig Peterson! Grahame Steigler- Margaret Mulcahy! Denison College Denison College Peters! Coonamble! Kelso! of Secondary Condobolin ! High School High Campus Education High School
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I acknowledge the traditional owners of the land. Our 2014 NSW SPC Annual Conference is on the traditional lands of the Wiradjuri, known as the people of the mountains, rivers and plains or the people of the !Three Rivers. The lands of the Wiradjuri extends from the western slopes of the Great Dividing Range, near Lithgow, and is bounded by the three rivers: Macquarie (Wambool), Lachlan (Kalari), and Murrumbidgee. The Wiradjuri people are the largest Aboriginal population in NSW. I welcome our colleagues to this important event, in particular our !colleagues attending for the first and last time. The NSW Secondary Principals’ Council Annual Conference is one of the peak events of the calendar year, embracing professional learning, SPC business, principal support and networking. It is vital that we maintain and enhance our collegial advocacy relationships in a time of extensive reforms and federal political impositions. Our SPC Annual General Meeting is significant, involving our membership in decisions of influence. Further, this is an occasion to honour the contributions of our colleagues through receipt of Life Membership, Distinguished Service Awards and the equally prestigious Bill Kennedy Award. Please consider participating fully in the event and all the opportunities !afforded you during the Conference. Further, may I implore you to support our Sponsors that support SPC and subsequently you. The sponsorship is significant; ensuring the cost of our conference is possible. Without their generosity this quality conference would be a financial imposition. Please visit the sponsors, !who, as we do, work hard in our chosen careers. Finally congratulations to our outstanding NSWSPC Conference Committee, including the extended committee – it is a highlight of our SPC calendar capturing well over 70% of our !membership. Congratulations to Ken Barwick, Chad Bliss, Margaret Carey, Sue Francisco, Charles Gauci, Janis Glasson, Don Harvey, Geoff Hastings, Sue Jones, David Lloyd, Margaret Mulcahy, Keith Peasley, Craig Petersen, Terry Tunkunas, Kathy Compton and Grahame Steigler- !Peters. Enjoy all on offer and I look forward to catching up. Thank You.
Lila Mularczyk NSWSPC President
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The Central West and Western NSW Secondary Principals’ Councils welcome you to the !2014 NSWSPC Annual Conference - Blue Sky Thinking: Red Dirt Reality. This year’s conference will challenge you to consider the tension between creative and !visionary leadership and the harsh reality of day to day management. In regional NSW, we see this metaphor reflected in the geographic features of our countryside. At times we immerse ourselves in the sheer beauty of an almost idyllic lifestyle, but all too quickly we can be almost overwhelmed by the elemental forces of fire, flood or, all too often, drought.
Have you ever wondered who you’re meant to be ... Visionary or Technocratic bean counter? This year, you will hear advice about managing the everyday complexity of your daily realities whilst retaining the ability to remain courageous, face the big issues, and !keep your moral compass pointing north. Over the next few days we know that you will enjoy time to network with colleagues, meet our sponsors and take advantage of the opportunity to explore some of the !experiences on offer in one of our excellent regional centres. You will also enjoy the facilities at Charles Sturt University, who have very generously provided a tremendous and fitting venue for such a significant meeting of educational !leaders. I would like to thank the entire team of principals in our two networks who have found some way to contribute to this year’s event. I would particularly like to thank our local !presidents, Charles Gauci and Sue Francisco, for their leadership. Thanks also to our state president, Lila Mularczyk for her experience and guidance over !the last year. Finally, thank you for attending this year’s conference and taking the time to replenish your palette of inspirational ideas, to meet and support your colleagues and to gird yourself for the hard work that will always await you as one of the most significant !professionals in your community. Craig Petersen Principal Denison College of Secondary Education
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Day 1 Tuesday 10th June 8.30 – Registration and refreshments 10.20 ~ Rafters Bar ! Student Performance 10.30 !~ S15 Welcome to Conference !Western Region SPC Representative Welcome to Country !Aunty Gloria Rogers Opening of Conference Lila Mularczyk ~ President NSWSPC & !Principal Merrylands High School Welcome to CSU Bathurst Professor Toni Downes ~ Executive !Dean, Faculty of Education CSU Welcome to Conference Graham Kahabka ~ Executive Director Public Schools NSW ! Keynote 1 ~ Lee Crockett 11.30 Managing Partner 21st Century Fluency Project ~ S15
1.20 Lunch ~ Rafters ! ! 2.05 SPC AGM ~ S15
! Workshop 1 ~ Ideas to Practice 4.00-4.45 Refer to the program for workshop abstracts and locations Reflections & Refreshments 4.45–5:30 ~ Rafters
6.00 Induction of new SPC members ~ Rydges, Level 7
6.30 Pre-dinner Drinks ~ Mayoral Suite Pit Lane Function Centre
! Conference Dinner ~ Windradyne 7.15 Room Pit Lane Function Centre
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Day 2 Wednesday 11th June Day 3 Thursday 12th June
9.00 Student Performance ~ S15 9.00 Student Voice ~ S15
Keynote 2~ Pam Ryan Dr Michele Bruniges 9.20 Director of Education, English 9.05 Secretary, NSW Department of Schools Foundation, Hong Kong Education & Communities 2015 Western Sydney Conference Keynote Speaker 3 10.50 Presentation 9.40 ~ Simon Breakspear CEO LearnLabs 11.10 Morning tea - Rafters 11.00 Morning tea ~Rafters Minister’s Address ~ The Hon. 11.45 DEC Panel ~ Adrian Piccoli, Minister for Education Greg Prior, Deputy Secretary 11.25 Peter Riordan, Deputy Secretary 12.45 Lunch ~ Rafters Leslie Loble, Deputy Secretary
Workshop 2 ~ Ideas to Practice 12.30 Sponsor prize giving and conclusion 1.40 Refer to the program for workshop abstracts and locations 1.00 Close and light lunch to take away Workshop 3 ~ Ideas to Practice 2.40 Refer to the program for workshop abstracts and locations
3.40 SPC Hot Topics session ~ S15 ! Reflections & Refreshments 4.10 - 5.30 ~ Rafters
Bathurst City Welcome Food, drink and entertainment 6.30 for Attire - Smart Casual 7.00–9.00 ~ Bathurst Memorial Entertainment Centre
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Lee Crockett
Lee Crockett is an award-winning designer, artist, author and international keynote speaker. He is the Managing Partner of The 21st Century Fluency Project, and is co-author of Understanding the Digital Generation, The Digital Diet, Living on the Future Edge, and the best-seller, Literacy is not Enough. Lee is a “just in time learner”, constantly adapting to the new programs and technologies associated with today’s communications and marketing media. He is the creative force behind the Fluency21 Unit Planner cloud-app which has created a culture of collaboration as educators around the world can share and source unit plans aligning to the structure of a 21st century learning environment as outlined in his works. Understanding the need for balance in our increasingly digital lives, Lee has lived in Kyoto, Japan where he studied Aikido and Tea Ceremony as well as Florence, Italy, where he studied painting. Lee works with educators in several countries, helping them shift to regain relevance and establish culture of excellence.
Simon Breakspear
Simon Breakspear is an education innovator, researcher and speaker. He is on a mission to radically change how the world learns. Simon is recognised internationally as a leading thinker on the future of learning and educational innovation. As the founder and CEO of the learning strategy and design firm LearnLabs, Simon works to help school, system, policy and business leaders to design and deliver high-impact strategies to enable 21st Century learning. He has worked with and spoken to leaders across Australia, New Zealand, the USA, Canada, the UK, Europe, Israel, Hong Kong and India. Simon is the co-author of “Talent Magnets” a highly practical and acclaimed white paper on attracting, retaining and developing quality teachers and the founder and curator of emerging educational leaders summits across APAC, which seek to incubate the next generation of innovative school leaders. Simon holds a first class honours degree in Psychology, a Bachelor of Teaching, a MSc. in Comparative and International Education from the University of Oxford, and is a PhD Candidate at the University of Cambridge. He was a Gates Scholar at the University of Cambridge, and Commonwealth Scholar at the University of Oxford.
Pam Ryan
Pam Ryan is the Director of Education for the English Schools Foundation (ESF), a community of 21 schools in Hong Kong offering English-medium education to over 17000 students. Pam’s role involves oversight of school and staff performance and development, of curriculum and of educational support. Pam’s experience in initiating two virtual learning communities in Australia and fostering the use of social media in ESF attest to her belief in the power of technology to enhance pedagogy. Prior to her role in ESF, Pam spent 7 years as a School Education Director in the NSW State system managing a group of schools and with curriculum responsibility for a regional area. While in this role she was also appointed as the Senior Manager with State-wide responsibility to implement legislation for a raised school leaving age. Pam spent 10 years as a secondary school principal in NSW.
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Lee Crockett Follow up from Keynote Address Louise Manwaring Networking for School Improvement Principal An outline of recent research in NSW and Canada centring on development of Mudgee High School networks of schools to share expertise and professional learning. This includes a look at the future where more autonomous schools broker partnerships to efficiently target resources for teacher professional learning between groups of schools, groups of principals and groups of subject teachers, including concentrations of early career teachers in some schools. Accomplished teachers enhance their own leadership experience by supporting teachers across schools.
Amy McConville, the 21 Finalist in the 21st Century Learning School of the Year Award, 2013. Century Teaching and Callaghan College has demonstrated innovation and best practice in the use of Learning Co-ordinator for learning technologies in student education. The session will unpack the effective Callaghan College change management processes utilised, resources developed including the 21st David Summerville, ICT Century Teaching and Learning framework. College work samples are evidence of Coordinator this world recognised initiative. Callaghan College Denise Lofts, Principal Embedding Deeper Learning ‘Through critiques and Presentations of Learning’ Ulladulla High School as a whole school 'narrative' for building future global students. UHS Team+ Ben Barry, What does deeper learning look like? How do you create that vision in your school? Michael Ramsden, Johnny How do you create the milestones, the buy in and the passion? What does it look Woodland, Michelle Kirby like in student work? The answers to these questions are what this workshop will bring to you. We will review the principal’s role in the school development process and the teaching team will present the journey in the classroom. The inspiration and learning philosophy is inspired by collaborative partnerships with High Tech High USA and Professor Yong Zhao. Elizabeth Webber Developing sustainable international programs in schools - the blue sky R/Director International expectations and red dirt reality of outcomes and what is deliverable. Programs What international programs do principals want for their schools – what are the DEC International benefits to their school community and what is deliverable and sustainable? The paper will look at the challenges for schools in managing the range of international programs – international students and study tours. There is an increasing demand from for these international programs for students from Asia, Europe and the Americas. Their expectations are different. How do schools support the international students and manage their expectations and those of their parents and what is achievable for the students? What does the data tell us about the red dirt reality!
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