Blogs

Term 3 has already been eventful for ACELQ celebrating the 5th birthday of ACELQ Pivotal People, involvement in the Toowoomba and Darling Downs ‘Voices from the Field – Creating a Leadership culture’ panel, planning underway for the ACEL Qld Awards ceremony, and excitement building for the National Conference to be held in Brisbane in September. 

Date claimers:

• Tuesday 22 August 2023: ACELQ Awards Ceremony Details and registration here
• Tuesday 26 September 2023: ACEL Pre-Conference workshop  Brisbane
  “Leading by learning: leading conversations that build trust for collaboration and improvement”
• Wednesday 27 – Friday 29 September 2023:  ACEL National Conference Brisbane
  “Celebrating 50 years: Learning from the past, leading for the future”.  

ACELQ Leadership Awards

The Australian Council for Educational Leaders Queensland Branch (ACELQ) honours educational leaders who, in the view of their colleagues, have made a significant contribution to the understanding and practices of the teaching profession and educational leadership. 

Congratulations to our 2023 Award Recipients. We are looking forward to celebrating your recognition at the annual ACELQ Awards ceremony with your family and colleagues and encourage all to register for the ceremony as soon as possible.

Date: Tuesday 22 August 2023 
Time: 5:15pm - 8:30pm 
Venue: Wavell State High School

Register here

Middle Leadership standards – online survey. Have your say. 

As a professional association ACEL has been very active in supporting middle leadership. The Queensland Department of Education has partnered with the Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership (AITSL) in an exciting project to develop and trial professional standards for middle leaders. We remind our members that there is opportunity to help shape middle leadership in Australian schools. Your perspective will help inform and shape the draft standards and how they relate to the work of middle leaders.

Have your say on the draft Professional standards for middle leaders via the national validation survey from 17 July to 4 August. Visit www.aitsl.edu.au/middleleaders.

Time for reflection

The Queensland Branch Executive members continue to offer members our regular Time for Reflection pieces. This term we thank Bruce Addison for his thoughtful reflections. Now with ACEL community blogs the readership is extended to other states. We encourage you to engage with this community further and contribute your insights.  

Please stay in contact with ACELQ through branch.qld@acel.org.au

Karen Fox
ACEL QLD Branch President