Background
The School Leadership Development Strategies Clearinghouse (The Clearinghouse) has been developed by the Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership (AITSL) in collaboration with Education Services Australia (ESA). The Clearinghouse is the result of one of six key reform projects managed under the Australian Government’s Smarter Schools National Partnerships with states and territories.
The National Partnerships have been established to raise teaching standards and improve student outcomes in Australian schools, and focus on three areas: addressing student disadvantage, improving student literacy and numeracy and supporting teachers and school leaders.
Goals
The Clearinghouse aims to lead the development of a national approach to enhance the leadership capacity of current, emerging and aspiring school leaders and will achieve this through the collection and dissemination of the latest research, strategies and resources in the field and through the fostering of an interactive online Community of Practice.
The Clearinghouse will be of use to current and future principals, deputies, heads of department, policy makers, state bodies, leadership course providers and any others interested in school leadership development.
Disclaimer
The resources to which the Clearinghouse website links have been checked for relevance and appropriateness by AITSL or its contractors, however their inclusion on this site does not imply that AITSL endorses those resources. Likewise, exclusion from this site does not imply the opposite. It is the responsibility of each user to assess any resource found on this website to consider the relevance to the user’s situation and to evaluate the accuracy, reliability and significance of each of the resources.
Some of the resources to which the Clearinghouse links are not publicly available but may be accessed on a pay-per-view basis, subscription basis, or by some other means. AITSL does not provide access to these resources; it is the responsibility of the users to obtain access in accordance with the terms proposed by the supplier or to make use of appropriate library subscription services in order to access licensed content.
The Clearinghouse contains links to websites which may be of interest to users, but which are not owned or controlled by AITSL. AITSL does not bear any responsibility for the content contained on any external website.
To use the Community of Practice section of this website a user must first register, however registration does not imply an endorsement by AITSL of the comments of a registered user, nor of any content uploaded by registered users to the Community of Practice.
Comments in forums and uploads to the Community of Practice will be moderated by AITSL to ensure relevance and appropriateness and to maintain a respectful and professional environment. Apart from this moderation, and comments by users marked as ‘Moderator’, comments and uploads to the Community of Practice are not owned or controlled by AITSL in any way.
AITSL has endeavoured to ensure that the Clearinghouse does not contain any copyrighted material without permission of its owner. If it seems that some of the material on the website is being used without the appropriate permission, please report your concerns to AITSL.
