Dare to Lead funding renewed

On Friday May 11 2012, Minister Garrett announced that funding for the Dare to Lead has been extended for another year, now taking the project through until the end of 2013. With this $1.6m contract extension, Dare to Lead will continue its work across its network of 5500+ schools and with its many project partners. 

The 2012 VITTA Conference

Mark Sparvell, PAI's Communication and Information Technology presenter is appearing at the 2012 Vitta 'Reign in the Cloud' conference on August 6 and 7. The conference is an excellent event for ICT leaders and staff.

PAI ACT John Laing Award night was held at the Kurrajong Hotel, Thursday 23rd February, 2012.
The Award recipients may be viewed  here. 

The John Laing Professional Development Award is a peer nominated celebration of school leadership and professional learning. Its aim is to celebrate leadership learning: for school leaders by school leaders.

Contact your local PAI Branch to nominate colleagues.

See SA Awards 2011 for an example of our Awards nights

Click here for information, guidelines, nomination forms and previous winners >>>.

Middle Years of Schooling Association Workshops

Travelling Scholar: Dr Michael Nagel

Workshops are being offered in every Australian state and territory - follow the link below for dates and venues.

To register go to:

http://www.mysa.org.au/index.cfm?action=content&title=events

Exciting new partnership

PAI is pleased to be part of the Flourishing State initiative in SA - we are joining a host of other key national and state organisations concerned with school and community mental health and wellbeing in a Martin Seligman Positive Psychology inspired South Australian state wide 'flourishing' over the next 12 months.

MindMatters Positive Psychology>>>

Asia Education an important National agenda 
Visit the website to register for their eNewsletter and keep informed about recent developments. 

Asia Education Foundation>>>

The L5 Framework is an easily accessible professional development frame for leadership teams or individual leaders.

The L5 Framework >>>

The L5 is also available in different formats designed to suit your needs.

For example, L5 Live! professional development sessions, The Learn:Lead:Succeed resource, L5 At Work Online learning modules plus a range of tools for leadership learning.

Announcing the new look for the L5 At Work! To have a look go to the new Home page. You will need to change your bookmark for the site. Tell us what you think.

Health and Wellbeing of Principals Survey 
Preliminary findings from a major national survey show the overall health and wellbeing of Australia's principals varies greatly - with participants reporting large differences in their ability to maintain healthy levels of exercise, diet and weight control.
To read the full story see: Long hours but principals remain positive: survey

Evaluation of MindMatters Buddy Support to Secondary Schools in South West Sydney 2011
The results showed that intervention schools were significantly more likely to ensure internal support by assigning a person responsible for MindMatters (90% vs 38%), forming a core team (79% vs 21%), reporting changes (94% vs 26%) and connectedness (100% vs 21%) and continuing MindMatters implementation (90% vs 33%) than non-intervention schools.
Access the report here.

MindMatters successful school-based resilience intervention to decrease tobacco, alcohol and marijuana use in high school students.
Despite schools theoretically being an ideal setting for accessing adolescents and preventing initiation of substance use, there is limited evidence of effective interventions in this setting. Resilience theory provides one approach to achieving such an outcome through improving adolescent mental well-being and resilience.  2011_MM_One_Stop_Shop_Paper.pdf

Staff Health and wellbeing - a critical topic 
This article by Sue Roffey http://hkier.fed.cuhk.edu.hk/journal/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/ajc_v18n1-2_149-169.pdf is definitely worth viewing and try this site for new books around teacher burnout from ASCD Teacher burnout