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L5 Frame: Leading Asia Literate Schools

This module will engage you in a process of whole school curriculum change to develop a sustainable, Asia literate school. Each stage will provide you with resources and self-paced activities. The stages assume no prior experience: however many principals will have already made progress on this journey and will want to select those stages which best meet their needs. The module starts with understanding why Asia literacy is essential for today's Australian students and moves through processes to support you in ensuring sustainable curriculum change.

The Leading Asia Literate Schools frame consists of the L5 leadership propositions and assertions for leadership practice:

 L5 Frame Propositions

Assertions for Leadership Practice

 L1 Leadership starts from within
  • Principals understand the importance of engaging their students with Asia
 L2 Leadership is about influencing others
  • School principals work collaboratively with colleagues, key staff and school communities to ensure collective understanding of the importance of engaging students with Asia to build a shared vision
 L3 Leadership develops a rich learning environment
  • School leaders build capacity with staff to develop a whole-school approach to Asia-focused program development, implementation and evaluation
 L4 Leadership builds professionalism and management capability
  • School leaders establish systems, structures and processes to integrate engagement with Asia into the school
  • School leaders establish and sustain professional learning networks for themselves and their staff
L5 Leadership inspires leadership actions and aspirations in others
  • School leaders encourage and facilitate opportunities for colleagues and staff to take and show leadership in the implementation of the National Statement for Engaging Young Australians with Asia in Australian Schools
  • School leaders ensure that significant achievements and events are recognised and celebrated

 

The module is based on Learn:Lead:Succeed, constructed around a frame for building leadership in schools that was developed in 2003, at the initiative of APAPDC, by a group that included some of Australia's leading researchers and practitioners in the fields of leadership and succession planning. They were Patrick Duignan, Louise Bywaters, Jenny Lewis, Kathy Lacey, Tom Croker, Don Zoellner, Susan Boucher and Jeremy Hurley.

 

Another model of change, which focuses on the importance of school leadership can be found in a report The Future of Studies of Asia and Australia in Australian Schools: An Evaluative Investigation (PDF: 1.0 Mb). It examines the views of education stakeholder groups, schools and the Asia Education Foundation. 

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