Executive Director’s Update to Principals #36 - 20 July 2022
Invitation to participate: Principal Standard Consultation
I am delighted to advise you of an exciting, voluntary, opportunity for school leaders in the Diocese of Ballarat and CEB system leadership to engage in a consultative process to personalise the Australian Professional Standard for Principals to the Catholic context.
Why?
Our Catholic context is central to our collective purpose: to lead the Church's mission through its leadership of Catholic education communities. Working from a standard-referenced perspective when defining school leaders' roles and responsibilities is necessary. We need a language to talk about leaders and leadership and define pathways, accountabilities and responsibilities. Taking ownership of the Principal Standard will inform the investment in professional learning programs and services we deliver in the future, including the Principal appointment and appraisal process.
Register to attend.
We look forward to ensuring that principals, deputy principals, religious education leaders (RELs) and system leaders across the Ballarat Diocese have the opportunity to add value to this process. While participation is voluntary, we encourage as many principals, deputy principals and RELs as are able to attend this consultation event come along to improve the quality of the process and its outcome.
Register to participate in this consultation event here via this link.
About the Consultation.
Widely recognised academic expert in educational leadership, Emeritus Professor Stephen Dinham OAM, Melbourne Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne, has been engaged to work with Louisa Rennie, General Manager Leadership Development MACS, to deliver the keynote address and facilitate the consultative activity that will follow.
School leaders and members of the CEB system leadership team are asked to attend to offer expertise, input and feedback on the customisation of Principal Standard to reflect a Catholic understanding. Pre-reading material will be provided and Professor Dinham’s keynote will also be made available to attendees.
Consultation: CEV Principal Standard
Date: Tuesday 23 August 2022
Time: 10:00am – 12:30pm
Audience: Principals and system leaders
Venue: Ballarat (venue TBC)
Note: a light lunch will be provided on conclusion
Intended outcomes.
The intended outcomes of the consultation process include:
- High-level engagement of Principals, Deputy Principals, RELS and system leaders from Ballarat, Sandhurst and Melbourne Dioceses in the personalisation of the Principal Standard to the Catholic context,
- A final product that describes what principals are expected to know, understand and do to achieve excellence in Catholic leadership of schools,
- A final product that is cross-diocesan relevant and inclusive,
- A desire from all to continue to build understanding about how to use the Standard to guide work with/for/as principals and school leaders.
As the Catholic Education Victoria Principal Standard is developed, we will consider how this may impact key DOBCEL documents, including CHECS and the Diocesan Leadership Framework.