The APPA Executive, together with the Executives of the other major Principals' associations, met with officers from the Commonwealth Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations on 21/22 May. The reports from the meetings, and some associated papers, can be downloaded using the links below. The agenda for the two meetings covered the following:

1. Information about the outcomes from the recent Federal Budget and the directions for education for the next few years.

• The Report from the Meeting about the Federal Budget for 2008-09 (837 Kb pdf file) contains a summary of each of the sessions, as well as the text and graphics from the PowerPoint presentations used by the departmental officers.

• Click here to go to the website where you can read and download Julia Gillard's statement Education Revolution 2008-09 (64 page booklet, about 600Kb pdf file). 

• Literacy and Numeracy in Australia, a paper prepared by DEEWR in May 2008 (2.3Mb pdf file).

 

2. The preliminary reports from the OECD's project Improving School Leadership. This project is a comparative investigation of the current state of school leadership and school leadership development in more than 20 countries in the OECD. Each country provided a report to the project, from which the comparative report was written by a team led by David Hopkins. One of the purposes of the meeting was to seek feedback from the Principals' associations on a range of ways that the final report could be used in Australia to develop and enhance school leadership in the future.

• Report from the Meeting about the OECD Project (242Kb pdf file) contains a summary of the sessions, as well as text and graphics from the PowerPoint presentations used by the presenters.

• Supporting Strong Australian School Leaders (161Kb pdf file) - a briefing paper prepared by Michelle Anderson (Australian Council for Educational Research) Supporting Strong Australian School Leaders, which formed a basis for the discussion about possible future directions.

• Learning-Centred Leadership - a paper prepared for the OECD by Professor Judith Chapman, of the Australian Catholic University (2.43Mb pdf file).

• Click here to go to the OECD project's website to read the country reports, including Australia's, and also to download the preliminary reports from the project.