SPC President Craig Petersen and I meet regularly with the SEiA team: Emma Kriketos, Daniel French and James Brigden. Please note the stream of work and support available to Principals and their Executive teams. In particular please note the availability of the PSL’s to work alongside you and with you.

I invited Emma, Daniel and James to provide this summary as this was the discussion in our meeting in week 3.

PSL Workstreams 2022

The Principals School Leadership are pivoting in the role after the deferment of External Validation until 2023. It is important at this critical time that we take the opportunity to work with our PSL colleagues to support our wellbeing by engaging them in coaching and shoulder to shoulder support in our schools for our complex issues and management of barriers to school improvement. In discussions with Emma Kriketos, Director Principal School Leadership and External Validation we will continue to work together to keep the focus on the workflow areas below:

• Wellbeing and coaching support
• Support and guidance of principals in the management of school level matters
• Shoulder to shoulder support to principals, executive and communities in completing Annual Reports within the timeframe (Term 2)
• Sustained ongoing evaluation of Strategic Improvement Plan (SIP)and Implementation and Progress Monitoring (Terms 3 & 4)
• Support corporate areas within the department to assist with program delivery
• Deployment of staffing support to schools – PSL support is prioritised for leadership positions and coordinated following the Guidelines for backfilling staff due to COVID-19 https://education.nsw.gov.au/inside-the-department/covid-19/vaccinations/guidelines-for-backfilling-staff-due-to-covid-19

Please reach out to the local network PSL here or email PSLCoord@det.nsw.edu.au to access these supports.

Universal Resources Hub now supporting schools 

The Universal Resources Hub - a much-anticipated feature of the School Success Model – was launched earlier this year and has been visited by over 30,000 teachers and school leaders. The Universal Resources Hub has been designed to host high quality, evidence-based teaching and learning and school improvement resources in one easy to access place. The quality-assured resources are designed and developed to support student learning outcomes and school improvement across key areas of practice. The Universal Hub aims to help schools find the right resources, in identified priority areas, including Reading and Numeracy, Attendance, Financial Management, Curriculum, Inclusive Practice and School Excellence in Action. Resources will continue to be released each term. More information may be found here. 

SPaRO Development Group

School Planning and Reporting Online software (SPaRO) is the digital platform for all aspects of school excellence, curriculum and policy monitoring and registration activities. A new pathway for communicating and analysing user feedback and experience of SPaRO has been established this year with the SPaRO development group. This group has broad representation of SPaRO users including PPA, SPC, NSWDPA and primary executive. Of course, all users can leave feedback at any time through the SPaRO email, sparo@det.nsw.edu.au . This group assists SPaRO to decide development priorities, understand user experience and analyse suggestions from schools. The group will report through association representatives on a regular basis.

Annual Report Support for Schools

A series of short MyPL drop-ins have been launched to assist principals and school teams with completing their annual reflection/ annual reports. The sessions are differentiated by subject with choices of time slots. Additional sessions will be added throughout the term while there is demand.

Annual Report Support Tool

As schools complete their Annual Report towards the end of Term 2, the Annual Report Support Tool will come in handy prior to publishing. It guides the writing, reviewing and development of the Annual Report. The tool is designed to support principals implement the relevant components and requirements of the School Excellence Policy. You can find the tool here.