26 July 2023
July Update
Hello Colleagues
I trust all is well.
The purpose of this Update is to provide you with non-urgent communication I have received from other organisations e.g. AITSL.
I trust this limits the email traffic from me to you.
Be well.
- As you would be aware, I have worked very closely with the Education Leadership team at Monash University for some time. With your assistance, we have produced research papers around Principal Recruitment and Selection and Principal Autonomy. These papers have attracted a great deal of conversation in and out of Federal Government circles. Our next piece of research is around the emotional capital that Principals bring to their job – and your assistance is vital to this research.
Invisible labour: Principals emotional labour in volatile times
This is a project funded by the Australian Research Council. It is being conducted by education researchers from Monash and Deakin Universities and the University of Sydney.
We are asking public school principals from across Australia to assist us by participating in this survey.
This is not your typical survey. We want to collect your stories about the more invisible but crucial aspects of your work as a government school principal – the “emotional labour” of doing the job.
The main thing you will be doing in this survey is telling a significant story about a critical incident that you have experienced as a principal. We think these stories are crucial to collect to capture the extent and diversity of this invisible work and expand public understandings about the complex nature of the principal’s role.
1. From AITSL –
Dear colleagues
As you are aware, key to addressing workforce wellbeing challenges is understanding the issues being experienced by teachers and school leaders. The Amplify Teacher and Leadership (ATL) project, which is a collaboration between AITSL and Deakin University, intends to develop regular and reliable evidence about Australian school leaders’ and teachers’ attitudes, experiences and needs in relation to their work. To progress this project the project team will be developing and commencing a pilot to establish the evidence required to enable the project to be self-sustaining.
As part of establishing the pilot, the AITSL - Deakin project team will be staging an online webinar to commence formal stakeholder engagement for the project. The webinar has been scheduled for Thursday 17 August 2023 @ 11.30 – 1.00pm EST and the format of the webinar would be a short panel presentation, followed by an outline of the Amplify Teacher and Leadership project with opportunity for audience response.
I would like to invite you to be part of the webinar and if possible, ask that you forward this information to your networks as we are keen to engage with as many stakeholders possible to learn from their insights and shape this project.
If attending the webinar is of interest to you, please confirm by COB Monday 14 August 2023 so that I can forward the meeting link to you. Should you have any queries, please don’t hesitate to contact me.
2. Attached below is some information on the Australian Teacher Workforce Data project – being run by
3. A Food and Nutrition longitudinal study is being undertaken by the University of Newcastle that is specifically focussed on secondary education – this is refreshing! Attached below is information around the project. If you/your P&C/Canteen are interested, please get involved.