February 2009 Meeting with DEEWR and National Principals Associations

On 24 February, your Executive, as well as the Executives of ASPA, AHISA and CaSPA, met with officers from DEEWR in Canberra to be briefed on progress with national initiatives and to provide feedback to the Australian Government on those initiatives. A report from the meeting has been written - click here to download it (482Kb pdf file).

Papers and Presentations:

Please use these files to enhance the written report from the meeting (downloadable above), which was compiled from session notes and these papers and presentations.

Agenda Item 1 - National Partnership Agreements: Briefing and Discussion

1.1    Introduction: National Partnerships and the Productivity Agenda (Bill Burmester) Smarter Schools National Partnership Program.

1.2    Teacher Quality NP (Allan Hird) presentation.

1.3    Low-SES NP (Judy Petch) fact sheet, paper.

1.4    Literacy-Numeracy NP (Louise Hanlon) map of pilot programs, pilot evaluation framework, summary of pilot programs, strategic projects.  

Agenda Item 2 - Building the Education Revolution (Dr Carol Nicoll)

Agenda Item 3 - National Schools Reporting (Tony Zanderigo) presentation.

Agenda Item 4 - Scenario Workshop

Agenda Item 5 – Provision of School Leader PD (Nicole Panting) presentation, paper re quality and mobility measures.