Leading 21st Century Schools

The Leading 21st Century Schools: Engage with Asia Professional Learning Program (L21CS Program) supports principals to undertake Asia literate curriculum change in their schools. The L21CS Program provides strategies and tools to:

• identify starting points through the development of action plans to implement Asia literate curriculum change
• explore opportunites to implement the Australian Curriculum cross-curriculum priority of Asia and Australia's engagement with Asia and the general capability of intercultural understanding.
• access high calibre Asia literate resources, including business people, to raise awareness within their school communities about the importance of Asia literacy.

Program tools and strategies

Strategies and tools provided through the program assist school leaders to: review information about national policy and Australian Curriculum; conduct awareness-raising activities with their school communities about the importance of students developing Asia skills and knowledge; analyse school readiness and capacity to begin an Asia literate change process through audits and analysis of school resources and curriculum; and provide information about :

• Australian Curriculum cross-curriculum priority of Asia and Australia's engagement with Asia
• Melbourne Declaration on Educational Goals for Young Australians
• National Statement on Asia Literacy in Australian Schools 2011-2012

Professional Learning Program       Activity sheets        Action Plan

Contact Details:

• For program information contact Jennifer Ure ph: (03) 8344 4800.
• For enquiries about the Victorian L21CS Program, that is being delivered by the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development, contact Lindy Stirling. 

Funding is provided by the Australian Government under the National Asian Languages and Studies in Schools Program (NALSSP) grants program whose target countries are Indonesia, China, Japan and Korea.

The project is supported by peak principals associations that include: Australian Primary Principals Association; Australian Secondary Principals Association; Association of Heads of Independent Schools of Australia; Catholic Secondary Principals Australia and Principals Australia.