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Leaders Transforming Learning and Learners Project:

The Flagship’s 18 month project with the Dioceses of Broken Bay, Maitland-Newcastle, Parramatta and Wollongong, to develop and pilot a professional learning program to assist school leaders transform their teaching and learning processes through shared, distributed leadership concluded with a whole day conference on the 27 October 06, where the participants presented their reflections, findings, stories and insights gained on this journey. The program is also the focus of three research projects by ACU doctoral students, who have been involved as observers since 2004 and a research project by staff of the Flagship for Creative and Authentic Leadership.

Leadership Profiling Project with CSO Maitland Newcastle

The Leadership profiling package developed by the Flagship in the Lutheran Leadership Development Project has been adapted by the Catholic Schools Office, Maitland Newcastle. 15 school leaders are being profiled in this project. The project is expected to conclude in May 2007.

Carrick Institute Leadership Project

The  Flagship, in partnership with the Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education (BIITE) received funding from the Carrick Institute for an Excellence in Learning and Teaching Program. The project, An Institutional Leadership Paradigm (ILP): Transforming practices, structures and conditions in Indigenous Higher Education, hosted its first activity in December 2006. The purpose of the project is to strengthen institutional leadership capacity to develop and deliver culturally appropriate and relevant Indigenous teaching and learning programs within the participant institutes.

The national participant organisations consist of Griffith University, Flinders University, University of South Australia, Curtin University, BIITE and ACU. The international participant organisations are the University of Victoria (Canada), the University of Calgary (Canada), and Sitting Bull College (USA).

The first Working Seminar was held  in Alice Springs, 4 to 6 December 2006 where participants worked towards developing an ILP. Working Seminar Two is planned for Brisbane, December 2007.

Tri Schools Scoping Project

This project was designed to generate key strategic options and possibilities for three schools in the South-West education region of Adelaide. The findings were expected  to enable them to build on their current collaborative processes (informal and formal) in order to maximise the long-term learning opportunities and outcomes for all students and their families The project was completed and the final report submitted to the stakeholders in November 2006. The project involved a literature review, document analysis, individual and focus group interviews, and a scoping workshop.

Sydney CEO Leaders for the Future

The Flagship was invited to evaluate the Leaders for the Future program of the Sydney CEO and to provide an opinion as to its appropriateness for other school systems. Over 250 teachers have graduated from the year long program. The Deputy Director of the Flagship Professor Tony d’Arbon and the Head of the School of Educational Leadership, Dr Annette Cunliffe, have conducted surveys and interviews and the data collected will be used for the preparation of a report and recommendations.

Leadership Standards for Teaching Australia

This project is being jointly undertaken by the Flagship and APAPDC for Teaching Australia. The purpose is to identify, map and critique Australian developments in the area of leadership standards to supplement the study undertaken by ACER on school leadership standards.  The project will provide an overview and summary of the leadership standards developed and under development by employing authorities and professional associations, at the national and state level. 

Part of the analysis will be to determine the relationship between the leadership standards developed by the professions and those developed by employing authorities, as well as the degree to which the appropriate professions were involved in the development of employer leadership standards.

Scoping Study into Approaches to Student Wellbeing with Erebus International

Review of Interfaith and Interculteral Understanding Pilot Program for DEEWR