Transformation Through Global Networking

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Transformation Through Global Networking

• Andrew Blair
• Victorian Association of State Secondary
  Principals

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Current Issues

• SCHOOL PERFORMANCE/SCHOOL UNDER PERFORMANCE
• Review Methodologies/Differentials particularly
  Diagnostic.
• Value Adding Context Sensitivity.
• School Leadership Performance Evaluation/
  Outcome protections.

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Current Issues

• DATA COLLECTION
• Staff Opinion Surveys.
• On Line impact.
• Protections for School Leaders/Performance
  Evaluation.
• Lack of balance in questions.

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Current Issues

• SINGLE ACCOUNTABILITY AND PLANNING TOOL
• Current accountability requirements driving
  school planning re Charter priorities
• Significant Duplication of current requirements
• Strategic planning for schools required

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Current Issues

• Time for a serious discussion which will build an
  
• INTELLIGENT ACCOUNTABILITY FRAMEWORK

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Current Issues

• LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT
• Improvement but still tender driven and without
  defined longitudinal framework.
• RAM
• Transition model and period the key.
• Transfer of funds over time particularly through
  ESL.
• Removal of SPF throws more pressure on workforce
  bridging/ Agreement to review process.

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Current Issues

• RAM (Continued )
• Templates of EFT / Leadership Profile/ SSO/ CRT
  Benchmarks being developed in the absence of
  entitlements.
• Plan for no loss based on equivalent enrolments.
• Term 4 Workforce Planning Module and PD crucial.

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Current Issues

• SCHOOL LEADER WELL - BEING SURVEY

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SCHOOL LEADER WELL - BEING SURVEY
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SCHOOL LEADER WELL - BEING SURVEY
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SCHOOL LEADER WELL - BEING SURVEY

• Im concerned that Im beginning to feel
  isolated vulnerable because there is a rapidly
  widening gap between school based non school
  based personnel. Those making policy are being
  driven by politics rather than good educational
  practice. Those left to implement policy are left
  to face some VERY challenging issues/situations
  with little practical support. 
• The strong support of the Principals
  Association and the lobbying that they continue
  on our behalf are a guiding light

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SCHOOL LEADER WELL - BEING SURVEY
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SCHOOL LEADER WELL - BEING SURVEY

• The number of homeless kids and the increasing
  number of students suffering depression and
  having mental health issues Parents who accept
  the lies told by their children when their child
  is in trouble and who take up so much of our
  time. 
• The principals role becomes blurred too often
  when we are considered to be the manager of a
  situation yet are subject to the same
  frustrations of the employees we support eg OHS,
  Child protection, Grievance Procedures.

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SCHOOL LEADER WELL - BEING SURVEY
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SCHOOL LEADER WELL - BEING SURVEY

• Poor parenting of students coupled with lack of
  interest, consistency and commitment and
  unwillingness to contribute to community
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• Inability by Central office masters to
  comprehend that violence is a way of life for
  some of our dysfunctional families. It is a
  chosen survival strategy arising from a range of
  social pressures, poverty, race, domestic abuse
  etc none of which are under the control of the
  school.

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SCHOOL LEADER WELL - BEING SURVEY
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SCHOOL LEADER WELL - BEING SURVEY

• I dont believe the system understands the
  demands of the day-to-day interactions I face
  it expects that I can do the must do and the
  teaching and the extra, in the time I have and
  still smile.
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• Tell the Bureaucrats to get out of the way and
  listen to principals rather than talk at them. We
  need genuine dialogue.

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Being a principal is the best job in the world
I get to influence so many others staff,
students and their families the world will
hopefully be a better place because of my little
influences   I used to love doing this job.
However in the last year or so I have been
seriously considering whether I want to continue
in it   Can I love it and hate it at the same
time?
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I think many people would say I was doing quite
well BUT I have problems sleeping, become
short-tempered with those I love the most. I
dont feel that Im paid enough for that the vast
range of skills that I use at high levels is
recognized by the community. It is not a normal
life. Although gregarious I cannot have real
friendships amongst the people at my school.
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SCHOOL LEADER WELL - BEING SURVEY

• I liken myself to the ball in a pin-ball
  machine, being bounced by every change. We deal
  with flux, not change change has an element of
  order- we dont have order. 
• Dealing with teachers who are having problems in
  their own lives and need to talk (and talk) the
  Have you got a minute syndrome sometimes I
  feel I carry all their problems around on my own
  shoulders their aging parents, their errant
  husband, their mischievous childrenthey walk out
  feeling cleansed and I am left sagging .

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Current Issues

• ON TRACK DATA
• Good news story.
• The Age headline has got it wrong.
• Breadth of pathways the way forward with more
  funding for Tertiary training places in this
  State.

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Current Issues

• EBA PROCESSES
• Crucial to adhere to consultation requirements.
• Responsibility positions problematic in agreement
  wording handbook more explicit working with
  DET.
• Principal Performance/Balanced Scorecard?
• RAM and EBA Intersection.