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BLUE SKY THINKING RED DIRT REALITY

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Ken Barwick!Oberon !

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Margaret Carey!Henry Lawson High School

Sue Francisco!Cobar !

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Charles Gauci!Cowra !

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Janis Glasson!Molong !

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Don Harvey!Wellington !

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Geoff Hastings !Denison College

Bathurst !High Campus

Susan Jones!Blayney !

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David Lloyd!Orange !

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Margaret Mulcahy!Coonamble!High School

Keith Peasley!Denison College

Kelso!High Campus

Craig Peterson!Denison College

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Grahame Steigler- Peters!

Condobolin !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 – 10.20

Registration and refreshments ~ Rafters Bar

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Student Performance ~ 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

!11.30

Keynote 1 ~ Lee Crockett Managing Partner 21st Century Fluency Project ~ S15

1.20 Lunch ~ Rafters

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!SPC AGM ~ S15

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Workshop 1 ~ Ideas to Practice Refer to the program for workshop abstracts and locations

4.45–5:30 Reflections & Refreshments ~ Rafters

6.00 Induction of new SPC members ~ Rydges, Level 7

6.30 Pre-dinner Drinks ~ Mayoral Suite Pit Lane Function Centre

!7.15

Conference Dinner ~ Windradyne Room Pit Lane Function Centre


Day 2 Wednesday 11th June

9.00 Student Performance ~ S15

9.20Keynote 2~ Pam Ryan Director of Education, English Schools Foundation, Hong Kong

10.50 2015 Western Sydney Conference Presentation

11.10 Morning tea - Rafters

11.45 Minister’s Address ~ The Hon. Adrian Piccoli, Minister for Education

12.45 Lunch ~ Rafters

1.40Workshop 2 ~ Ideas to Practice Refer to the program for workshop abstracts and locations

2.40Workshop 3 ~ Ideas to Practice Refer to the program for workshop abstracts and locations

3.40 SPC Hot Topics session ~ S15

!4.10 - 5.30

Reflections & Refreshments~ Rafters

6.30 for 7.00–9.00

Bathurst City Welcome Food, drink and entertainmentAttire - Smart Casual~ Bathurst Memorial Entertainment Centre

Day 3 Thursday 12th June

9.00 Student Voice ~ S15

9.05Dr Michele Bruniges Secretary, NSW Department of Education & Communities

9.40Keynote Speaker 3 ~ Simon Breakspear CEO LearnLabs

11.00 Morning tea ~Rafters

11.25DEC Panel ~ Greg Prior, Deputy Secretary Peter Riordan, Deputy Secretary Leslie Loble, Deputy Secretary

12.30 Sponsor prize giving and conclusion

1.00 Close and light lunch to take away


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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 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.

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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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Louise ManwaringPrincipal Mudgee High School

Networking for School Improvement An outline of recent research in NSW and Canada centring on development of 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 21Century Teaching and Learning Co-ordinator for Callaghan CollegeDavid Summerville, ICT CoordinatorCallaghan College

Finalist in the 21st Century Learning School of the Year Award, 2013. Callaghan College has demonstrated innovation and best practice in the use of learning technologies in student education. The session will unpack the effective change management processes utilised, resources developed including the 21st Century Teaching and Learning framework. College work samples are evidence of this world recognised initiative.

Denise Lofts, Principal Ulladulla High SchoolUHS Team+ Ben Barry, Michael Ramsden, Johnny Woodland, Michelle Kirby

Embedding Deeper Learning ‘Through critiques and Presentations of Learning’ as a whole school 'narrative' for building future global students. What does deeper learning look like? How do you create that vision in your school? How do you create the milestones, the buy in and the passion? What does it look 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 R/Director International ProgramsDEC International

Developing sustainable international programs in schools - the blue sky expectations and red dirt reality of outcomes and what is deliverable. What international programs do principals want for their schools – what are the 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!

Laurens DerksTechnology and Learning AdvisorDell Future Learning Team

Jill AndrewTechnology and Learning AdvisorDell Future Learning Team

Digital Citizenship- Understanding the implications of a positive digital profile. In this session participants will explore what a digital footprint means for educators and students.We will investigate:

• What digital citizenship is • The 9 elements of Digital Citizenship for 21 st Century learning• The responsibility of educators and school leaders to incorporate Digital

Citizenship across all areas of learning.Participants in this workshop will also be directed to explore further online resources to support Digital Citizenship.

eLearning – creating a digital learning environment for your students This is a high level overview with examples of how schools can take advantage of technologies currently available to support modern, anywhere, anytime learning. The benefits and traps of eLearning environments will be explained and participants will be directed to online resources.

Leading Learning in a BYOD environment Now that your school has chosen to implement a BYOD strategy, how do your executive and staff support teachers to make the most of the variety of technologies that may be present? What elements of school culture will need to be re-examined and how do these impact expectations of students?


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Ben and Heike RobertsModfab Pty Ltd

21st Century Learning through 3D Printing and Technology and Australian Curriculum Our combined expertise in teaching and engineering led us to run an innovative pilot program with Figtree High School over a period of 3 months where we supported staff with manuals, training, procedures and 3D lessons integrated across the key learning areas at the school. During this process we have put together affordable and innovative packages for schools. In our workshop you will be able to gain an insight into how to implement 21 st Century learning using the new curriculum, and also participate in a collaborative and engaging hands on 3D workshop which you can take back to your school. Unleash the tremendous potential of students to become the artists, makers and engineers of the future.

Donna Mathewson MitchellCharles Sturt University

Using digital technologies to enhance teacher professional learning This workshop will report on a partnership between CSU School of Teacher Education and Bathurst Regional Council. The focus of the project was on connecting pre-service teachers studying by distance with places of learning within the community. The aim of the project was to enhance understandings of applied curriculum and engage pre-service teachers in approximations of teaching and leadership. It occurred in a virtual classroom and culminated in a professional exhibition, public program and website. The workshop will showcase this project, illustrate the significant outcomesand explore implications for further connections with schools.

Jacqueline Koob, Principal Concord High SchoolDwayne Hopwood DPFiona Milligan HT Welfare & Careers Adviser

Improving student learning through Professional Learning Communities (PLC) The workshop will present a survey of the literature surrounding PLCs and examine how this has been used to establish a successful initiative at Concord High School. While scholarly articles extol the virtues of PLCs and outline the difficulties in their establishment they largely ignore the “hard slog of implementation”. The workshop will present how the teams were structured and supported, the type of topic explored and the outcomes achieved. At least one of the team projects will be explored in greater depth and there will be opportunity for participants to question and discuss the program. The workshop will provide participants with practical suggestions about how to implement a PLC in their own school context.

Dr Matthew WinsladeDr Deb Clarke Charles Sturt University

Regional Connectedness This workshop will focus on the concept of regional connectedness, linking the communities of Charles Sturt University (CSU) and Orange High School (OHS). The aim of the workshop is to highlight a connected schools partnership, that utilises the principles of Yunkaporta's (2010), 8 Ways pedagogy. The structure of the workshop will include a brief overview of both the 8 Ways pedagogy and the locally focused Yindymurradhuray Yalbilinya framework, it will then outline the future direction of the connected schools partnership betwen CSU and OHS and how the partnership benefits both communities. In addition the workshop will provide a chance for those in attendance to consider where they and their staff sit within the cultural competency continuum, the opportunity to share and promote strategies for building the capacity for cultural competence that already exist and finally the opportunity to consider how similar connected partnerships be established.



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Mrs Shayne Player Principal Tumbi Umbi Campus+ Panel from Tuggerah Lakes Secondary CollegeMary Carryer, Raelene Cobham, Aaron Green

AVID – Advancement by Individual Determination (improving student outcomes) Have you ever wondered how to better engage those middle students whom you know are underperforming? Have you ever wondered how to inject aspirations in challenging socio-economic areas and times? Have you ever wondered how to breathe life into the Quality Teaching Model with effective strategies? Have you ever wondered how to deeply engage teachers in meaningful professional learning that will lift students writing, inquiry, collaboration, organisation and reading prowess? If you have, then our workshop is for you! Join us as we share an evidence-based program that does make a difference for all learners through explicit teaching and strong relationships.

Edith McNallyPrincipalMenai High School

Sustainability Education in a school that has reinvented itself as a power station.This workshop will focus on strategies for embedding sustainability throughout all KLAs in the curriculum and through "walking the talk" of sustainability in many school operations. This includes creating a 185kw capacity solar power station, water harvesting for waste water self-sufficiency, eco-friendly farm, marine studies lab, boat smart program and seagrass conservation program as well as a putt putt golf course developed as flood mitigation program. Special attention will be given to the solar power station and its impact on electricity costs as well as its capacity to enhance learning through data harvesting using Sunny Web portal. Strategies for management and funding will be added.

Brendan MaherCoolah Central School

Developing effective and sustainable connections between schools for curriculum and Communities of Learning (Premier’s Teacher Scholarship in New and Emerging Technology in Education – Teachers Mutual Bank) Based on research undertaken in New Zealand and Tasmania, this session looks at opportunities for schools to develop connected community links. Further research was carried out with Australian and overseas based universities to establish a support framework for schools to use to develop these links while building the capacity of New Scheme and existing staff and leaders. The research highlights ways that curriculum can be shared K-12 between schools to enrich student learning through new and emerging technologies, such as Google+ and LMS platforms. The session also reviews the pilots in place between schools for Communities of Learning to support staff in Rural and Remote schools based on the Rural and Remote Blueprint for Action.

Laurens Derks Technology and Learning AdvisorDell Future Learning Team

BYOD: Issues and Strategies for School Leaders The Digital Education Revelation commissioned the NSW DEC BYOD literature review. This presentation is based on that review and will assist school leaders to identify issues and potential solutions that this form of technology integration creates. Participants will be directed to resources to support their own unique BYOD journey.

Jill Andrew Technology and Learning AdvisorDell Future Learning Team

Enhance Team Efficiency and Productivity with Google Collaboration Tools Being able to collaborate and share documents on-line, in real-time, on any computer, anywhere is now possible with free Google tools. This workshop will demonstrate how to create and share documents and presentations. Google Forms can be used to create forms to send to staff, parents or students with the results being sent to a spreadsheet. We will look at examples of forms that can increase productivity.We will also examine other Google tools available now for school staff.Note: If you want to use these tools in this session, you will need to sign in to Google eg have a Gmail address and know your password. You can still join this workshop without signing in.


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Lynne SearleGosford High School+ Megan Johnson Wyong High School

Why you should listen to student voicesA remarkable story of collaboration between 13 high schools on the Central Coast of NSW who can show you how you can transform learning in every school by engaging in student voice, reflective practice and teacher professional learning. Real stories, real evidence and real support materials will help you begin this very important journey of cultural change. The projects of each school were developed in response to their individual context, the established need and underpinned by national and international research and academic support. Amazing things are happening for every school. Our support package will be comprehensive and of value to every school.

Linda WilliamsMelinda SussmanPicton High School

Black Board ConfigurationAt Picton High School, we have adapted the Black Board Configuration Model to make it contextually relevent to a large, challenging, comprehensive High School. The primary focii of this model is to set clearly directed lessons that explicitly link to syllabus outcomes and teaching practice. One of the main objectives in this model is to explicitly teach literacy strategies in a structured learning model.

Donna Mathewson MitchellCharles Sturt University

The Voices in Visual Arts Education (VIVAe) projectThis program engaged secondary visual arts teachers located in regional NSW in participatory action research to develop understandings of teaching practice. The workshop will outline the teacher-generated research questions and will examine the collaborative process of inquiry. It will further report on the data gathered and the insights gained about teaching in relation to practice and place. Potential use of this approach as a model for professional learning and the mobilization of teacher knowledge will be explored with participants.

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David Lloyd, PrincipalKathleen MaksymczukKristie EssonOrange High School

Capitalising on Change Moving through the blue sky are enormous changes to educational frameworks at almost every level of administration. This workshop is designed to share how Orange High School has used these significant external changes to drive internal changes in teaching and learning structures – our red dirt reality. These school based structures are aimed at reaching specific targets that promote quality teaching and learning at every level of the school. The workshop will demonstrate how data has been used to create a strategic plan that foregrounds high quality teaching and learning through integrated planning, programming, professional learning, differentiation, and evaluation processes and procedures. It will also present and discuss the emerging results of these changes and plans for future consolidation.

Jenny Donovan General Manager Strategic Information and Reporting DirectorateDEC Cheryl Dwyer Duncan Auld Engagement Lead, SchoolsBusiness Intelligence Program

Business Intelligence for Principals This workshop will focus on how schools are set to benefit from DEC’s new Business Intelligence (BI) Program. Principals who opt-in to this program are being provided with a suite of tools capable of gathering and transforming disparate data into meaningful information for decision making. The first instalment of the program focuses on information surrounding student enrolment, performance and progress and staff information. Further releases of the program in 2014 and 2015 will support principals with financial management, knowing more about their communities and becoming more efficient with recruitment and staff professional development. Training in how to use the tools will be delivered to principals through e-learning and face-to-face seminars at numerous centres across NSW. The BI program is free-of-charge to NSW Public Schools.

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Matthew BrownDeb Pickles Di McGregor Kay Thurston Junee Public Schools

Learning Communities – growing learning opportunities The Ngumba-Dal Learning Community is a formal partnership between all the public schools in the Junee Shire, created to demonstrate public education’s strengths and its larger value and importance to our community. The focus of the Ngumba-Dal Learning Community has been to create sustainable rich learning opportunities for students in all its member schools. The Learning Community is an important element of each member school’s individual and corporate image and educational organisation

Ted Noon, PrincipalAshcroft High School

Sharing the Conversation: Linking pedagogical practice, triangulated classroom data, research, and students as leading learners within the context of the whole-child. The role of educational leaders is bound within the tensions that exist between political expectations and our understanding of equity, the needs of the learner and our moral purpose. The connection between high-level pedagogical practice, whole-school practices and our ability to enhance educational outcomes for all learners in a high school context is embraced within the notion of the whole-child. Our responsibility as educators in this area is clearly articulated in the Melbourne Declaration (2008), yet often ignored at the expense of obsessiveness over narrow views of learner success and how we measure it. This workshop will look at both the research and practice, and will open discussion with participants about their views and experiences as it relates to this most important work.

Michael SaxonLiverpool Boys High School

Self Organised Learning Environments (SOLE) (SOLE) have been developed by Sugata Mitra for promoting student centred learning. In this workshop we will run a SOLE lesson with you as the students. We will then explore how you can use techniques like SOLEs to promote critical thinking, collaboration and creativity both in staff and students.

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Stephanie McConnell!Turramurra High School!Jeff Lambert

Embedding collaboration and innovation in practice across multiple school settings!In a future-focused learning environment where collaboration and innovation are vital, schools need the tools to change traditional practice and move towards a new way of thinking and interacting.!Drawing on experiences gained from our leadership of a Principal Professional Development Alliance Project involving eighteen primary and secondary schools this workshop will enable participants to access a toolbox of processes and resources to embed innovative blue sky thinking through the red dirt reality of collaborative practice. Our workshop shares the story of the learning gained through our alliance project – a team which spanned a diverse range of school contexts.

Jill Andrew & Laurens Derks!Learning & Technology Advisors!Dell Future Learning Team!

Social media for teaching professionals !The use of social media in education is an emergent and constantly expanding phenomenon. Teachers are harnessing the power of social media to create global connections and create new learning opportunities for students. Schools are connecting with their communities to improve communication. This workshop will look at examples of how NSW DEC schools are benefitting from their engagement in social media.

Geoff Hastings!Denison College!Bathurst High Campus!Pat Ford HT TAS

Trade Training Centre Aquaculture Facility and Curriculum Integration – tour of facility!This unique facility at Denison College of Secondary Education, Bathurst High Campus, demonstrates how the Trade Training Centre Aquaculture facility has been integrated into the whole school curriculum. The workshop will include a tour of the $900,000 facility that is about 3 minutes from the conference site.

Linda Williams!Melinda Sussman!Picton High School!

SOLE (Self Organised Learning Environment) !The SOLE approach to lesson planning and lesson structure provides an ideal opportunity for individualised and differentiated learning to take place. It allows the structured use of technology and group work in an inquiry based classroom.

Craig Petersen!Principal, Denison College of Secondary Education

From Identification to Solution: Overcoming Geographic Disadvantage!It is recognised that social and economic disadvantage are barriers to learning for children, but for students in rural and regional areas there is the additional factor of geographic isolation. Many reports have identified the poorer educational outcomes of students in rural and remote areas and the difficulties involved in recruiting, developing and then retaining high-quality teachers and school leaders. How do these disadvantaged schools provide access to a broad curriculum? How do they attract, develop and retain the best teachers and leaders? !How do principals enter into effective partnerships with local communities and agencies to ensure that families have better access to support and intervention strategies? How can school leaders redefine the nature of schooling to better meet student needs? Most importantly, how do principals know how to modify what works in one setting so that they can be confident that it will work in their school?

Ben and Heike Roberts!Modfab Pty Ltd

21st Century Learning through 3D Printing and Technology and Australian Curriculum!Our combined expertise in teaching and engineering led us to run an innovative pilot program with Figtree High School over a period of 3 months where we supported staff with manuals, training, procedures and 3D lessons integrated across the key learning areas at the school. During this process we have put together affordable and innovative packages for schools. In our workshop you will be able to gain an insight into how to implement 21 st Century learning using the new curriculum, and also participate in a collaborative and engaging hands on 3D workshop which you can take back to your school. !Unleash the tremendous potential of students to become the artists, makers and engineers of the future.


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David Crelley!Tumbarumba High School

How to ensure that all teachers are literacy leaders?!Tumbarumba HS, an ILNNP school, focussed on bringing the Literacy Continuum to life and making it an authentic working document for the teachers in our school. All teachers have been involved in unpacking the various Literacy aspects and the subsequent mapping of students to these descriptors using cross KLA teams from across the school. This presentation focusses briefly on our journey and how we are changing the culture in our junior school from content driven, to literacy learning through the course content. Principals will have an opportunity to interact with our team leader and work with some of the extensive resource and tracking packages our teachers have created.

Professors Toni Downes, Associate Professor Jane Mitchell, School of Teacher Education in CSU’s Faculty of Education Charles Sturt University

Blending formal and informal approaches to professional learning for school leadership: A listening exercise!Presented by senior leadership of Charles Sturt University's Faculty of Education, this workshop invites delegates to share their needs, priorities and ideas for the creative delivery of professional learning for school leadership in NSW. It seeks to explore the capacity of universities to provide a blend of formal and informal learning opportunities that might ultimately build towards a University and/or school system credential in a way that maximises accessibility, relevance and results for aspiring school leaders. The workshop will draw heavily on the experience and expertise of the participants to inform the discussion. Facilitated by the workshop leader, it aims to develop in real-time, an innovative and effective professional learning model that is firmly focused on the needs of aspiring school leaders and their school systems.!

Matthew Brown, Junee High School!Relieving Director Queanbeyan!Deb Pickles CLO Junee High School!Darren Wallace, Program Designer

Bean Counter – Managing Positive Student Achievement (using third party software)!Many schools have third party software programs that monitor student welfare. We were also concerned about the effective tracking of student success and achievement. Attempts to monitor our newly implemented Honours Merit System became administratively unmanageable. In consultation with the school, Darren Wallace developed Bean Counter. The program accounts for each student’s achievements, tracks and automatically raises students to new levels. Bean Counter is an effective positive behaviour-monitoring program, indicating areas where students are enjoying success (or failing to do so).!

Dr Chris Tome !Adjunct Lecturer, Master in International Education (School Leadership), Charles Sturt University, Ontario

Be afraid ... be very afraid. Thirty-five years of neoliberal educational policies in Chile: some lessons for Australia.!Chris Tome has just retired after 38 years in the public education system of New South Wales, working as a principal, deputy principal and teacher of social sciences and Spanish language. During 2013 he undertook a detailed investigation of the school education system of Chile, a country with which he has a long association, after 35 years of unbridled neoliberal principles. He will use this workshop to outline the key characteristics of the neoliberal system that has emerged in Chile, as well as recent reactions against the neoliberal model. He will draw some parallels with the Australian educational setting.!

Kim Chapman, Principal!Rouse Hill High School!Chris Cawsey, Principal !Rooty Hill High School

New school planning modelLearn about the theory supporting the model, a description of the model and some examples of approaches schools have taken to trial the model. As the plan will become the key accountability document for schools, it is important to be thinking about how your school will approach the planning tool, the performance measures you will use and how you will embed the strategic directions into your school culture and practice. For each strategic direction, we need to respond to three questions or the five 'P's: Why are we doing it? (Purpose), How are we doing it? (People and Processes), and What does it look like? (Practices and Products). Progressive monitoring of milestones is required to check progress. We also need to build in a strong evaluation plan so we will know if our work is making a difference.


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2 Corporate Sign Industries

3 Millennium Schools

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5 NEC Australia Pty Ltd

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Creative and Performing Arts Performances !

Tuesday RegistrationSwing Factor

Denison College, Bathurst Campus !Tuesday Conference

Gabbi Bolt Denison College, Kelso Campus !

Bridget Cama Lithgow High School !Conference Dinner

Gabe Middleton !Wednesday Conference

Elizabeth Clarke, Gabrielle Lloyd, Yolanda Wu, Jack Carden,

Elizabeth Fox Orange High School Flute Ensemble !

Danni Saunders and Jack Saunders

Orange High School !Bathurst City Welcome

Cirkus Surreal Denison College, Kelso Campus !Student Acknowledgment !

Harry Roth Orange High School

Thank you to Supporters !Posh Designs

Rydges Mt Panorama Quality Hotel

Charlotte Apartments Heritage Motor Inn Bathurst Motor Inn

CSU Centre for Professional Development

Ben Chifley Motor Inn BMEC VAADA Bulurru

Derek Knox - Dell The Agrestic Grocer

Bathurst Buslines Flags ’n’ Displays

Bathurst Regional Council Piper Catering

Charles Sturt University Winery Barbara Mary Felting



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