The ICP Council will meet in Windsor, UK, on 20-23 November to discuss the strategic direction for the ICP. On the two days prior to that meeting, the 6-member Executive is meeting to prepare the papers and agenda items. Below is a photo of the Executive at work.
Family Engagement in Secondary Schools: Building Teacher and Family Efficacy, a paper by John O'Meara, a Principal from Australia, is the latest addition to this section of the website. The paper begins:
"The more educators engage families in the academic lives of their children, the more likely our students will perform at higher levels. For this project a three tier (Contact/Inclusion/Action) model of family engagement is used as a way to investigate the operation of family engagement practices in the identified schools and districts in the USA. The project offers a model for secondary schools to use to tackle the issue of successfully engaging families in their child’s education. In addition, the project identified a number of strategies to assist secondary schools in their development of a comprehensive strategy to engage all families. Critical elements of the Contact/Inclusion/Action model are:
Provision of a welcoming and family friendly environment;
Building relationships with families;
Shape attitudes and develop shared understandings;
The 5th ACP Conference was held recently in Kampala, Uganda. Ted Brierley, the ICP Executive Secretary, has written a report of the conference. Click here to go to the page with the report. You will also find 23 papers and presentations on that page, which you can download.
45 Principals and Deputy Principals from all nine regions of NAPD participated in ESHA 2008, the 11th Congress of the European School Heads Association, which was held in Copenhagen in September. The theme of the conference was The Conditions of School Leadership in Europe. Keynote speakers included the Director of Education for the OECD, Barbara Ischinger from Germany, who spoke about the OECD Leadership study and challenged delegates to move the findings of the Report forward within their own countries.
The Australian Secondary Principals Association held their annual conference last week. The theme was "Imagine, Create, Transform", with many of the sessions related to the topic of ICT. The report from that conference is now available - click here to go to the report page on the ASPA website. Material available includes keynote session summaries, presentation files, streamed and downloadable audio recordings of keynote addresses, and photograph galleries. Speakers included Professor Barry McGaw (formerly Director of Education, OECD) and Professor Stephen Heppell (Chair in New Media Environments, Bournemouth University).
Click on the link below to read a list of all the sessions and the materials available.
Educators from South East Asia convened in Jakarta on August 15th to 18th for the First Conference of the South East Asia School Principals Forum (SEASPF). The SEA-SPF is a group of school principal associations, or school principal nominees, from each of the 10 Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) nations, that have come together with the support of their education departments to form a Forum which aims to improve educational leadership in each of their countries. The nations making up the Forum are Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Phillipines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. East Timor may have an involvement at a later date. The Forum is supported by the Indonesian Government which has provided a secretariat and accommodation in Jakarta.
Signatories to the historic Jakarta Concord which established the South East Asia School Principals Forum as the South East Asia regional body for principal organisation support.
Council Meeting - Nov. 2008
Most of the papers for the 20-23 November 2008 Council Meeting are now available on the Council Meeting page - login to access it. Latest update on 9 November 2008. Please check your Minutes from the Shanghai meeting to ensure that your association has discussed all the topics that will be decided at this next meeting.
