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Educational Leadership

Reference Resources

Encyclopedia of Leadership: Available from the Gale Virtual Reference Library.
Encyclopedia of Management: Available from the Gale Virtual Reference Library.
Encyclopedia of School Psychology: Available from the Gale Virtual Reference Library.
Encyclopaedia Britannica Online Academic Edition: "A multi-disciplinary reference resource, the online version of Encyclopedia Britannica."
Oxford Reference: Online access to a wide range of subject dictionaries and 'companions'.

Databases

A+ Education: An indexing and full text database that provides Internet access to the scanned images of journal articles from published material on all aspects of education.
Academic Search Premier (EBSCO): Multi-disciplinary predominantly fulltext database, specifically for academic institutions.
British Education Index: The British Education Index provides information on research, policy and practice in education and training in the UK. Particular strengths include aspects of educational policy and administration, evaluation and assessment, technology and special education needs.
Business Source Premier (EBSCO): A business research database from Ebsco, providing full text for more than 2,300 journals, covers all fields of Business.
Catholic Periodicals & Literature Index (EBSCO): Covers all aspects of the Catholic faith and lifestyle, and includes citations of articles and reviews published in Roman Catholic periodicals, Papal documents, church promulgations, and books about the Catholic faith that are authored by Catholics and/or produced by Catholic publishers.
CCH Australia: A collection of resources in the areas of employment, law, OH&S, tax & accounting.
Emerald Fulltext: Subject coverage spans a spectrum of management disciplines including: strategy; leadership; library and information management; marketing and human resource management; plus a substantial number of engineering, applied science and technology titles.
ERIC (Proquest): Contains more than 2,200 digests along with references for additional information and citations and abstracts from over 1,000 educational and education-related journals.
JSTOR: JSTOR is a not-for-profit organization with a dual mission to create and maintain a trusted archive of important scholarly journals, and to provide access to these journals as widely as possible.
Project Muse: Collection of humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from scholarly publishers.

Web Sites

Australian Council for Educational Leaders: The Australian Council for Educational Leaders (ACEL) is the major professional association for educational leaders and our views are sought and respected by government and policy makers.
EdNA Online (Education Network Australia): Education Network Australia (edna) is Australia’s leading online resource collection and collaborative network for the education and training community.
Institute for Educational Leadership: The Institute for Educational Leadership's (IEL) mission is to improve education -- and the lives of children and their families -- through positive and visionary change.
National College for School Leadership: The National College for School Leadership (NCSL) works to make a difference to children's lives through excellent school leadership – growing and supporting current and future school leaders so that they can have a positive impact within and beyond their schools.
iNET Australia (International Networking for Educational Transformation): "The mission of International Networking for Educational Transformation (iNet) is to create powerful and innovative networks of schools that have achieved or have committed themselves to achieving systematic, significant and sustained change that ensures outstanding outcomes for all students in all settings."
The Australian Institute of Management (AIM): "The Australian Institute of Management (AIM) is Australia's largest professional body for managers, and is recognised as the voice of management in this country."
ERIC Education Resources Information Center: This website provides free access to more than 1.2 million bibliographic records of journal articles and other education-related materials
Curriculum Leadership Institute: "The CLI, a non-profit organization, works with teachers, support staff, administrators, boards of education, service agencies, and state departments of education."
Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD): ASCD resources will help teachers discover research-based strategies they can implement to improve learning in their schools.
Department of Education, Science and Training (DEST): "DEST provides national leadership and works in collaboration with the States and Territories, industry, other agencies and the community in support of the Government’s objectives."
IBE (International Bureau on Education): "The Institute of International Education (IIE) is an independent non-profit organisation that is a worldwide resource for educators, professionals and universities."
World Data on Education (WDE): "As from 1996, the IBE has undertaken the preparation of profiles of national education systems, using the information included in the National Reports on the Development of Education, supplemented with data from other sources."
What Works Clearinghouse: "The What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) collects, screens, and identifies studies of effectiveness of educational interventions (programs, products, practices, and policies)."
Australian Principals Associations Professional Development Council: "APAPDC's role is to ensure that all Australian principals have knowledge of, and access to, high quality, professional development activities, regardless of the type, size, location or affiliation of their school."
South Australian Centre for Leaders in Education (SACLE): Provides links to educational leaderships topics by subject heading.

Professional Associations

Association of Catholic School Principals in NSW and ACT Inc: The Association is formed from Principals of Catholic Primary and Secondary Schools in NSW and the ACT.
Association of Heads of Independent Schools of Australia: "AHISA is a professional body for Heads in Independent Schools. It aims to maintain high standards of professional practice and ethical conduct amongst its members by fostering a collegial environment of mutual understanding, trust and pastoral care."
Association of Principals of Catholic Secondary Schools of Australia: "It provides, on a national and international scale, a professional voice for Catholic Secondary Principals' and their Australian State and Territory Associations."
Australian Catholic Primary Principals Association: National professional association of Catholic Principals.
Australian Council for Educational Leaders: "The purpose is to promote and maintain a national and international profile of professional excellence, pride and service in the study and practice of educational administration. ACEA offers a voluntary professional accreditation scheme for all educational teachers in the fields of school, system and tertiary administration and educational consultancy."
Australian Primary Principals Association: "APPA is the national professional association for affiliated state and territory government, catholic and independent primary school principals associations and their members. APPA is their voice at the national level on national issues."
Australian Principals Associations Professional Development Council: "APAPDC is committed to building effective, inspirational and sustainable leadership in Australian schools."
Australian Principals Federation: It provides Industrial representation of principal class officers in state primary and secondary schools in Victoria and Western Australia.
Queensland Secondary Principals’ Association: To promote the value of the principalship as a position of responsibility and significance in education.
South Australian Secondary Principals Association Inc: To enable members to meet on a professional basis; to speak with a unified voice to the public on educational matters; to promote and protect the interests of members.
Victorian Association of State Secondary Principals Inc: The purpose is to act as a co-ordinating professional body for its members.