Empowering Schools and Classrooms

On 11 August The Minister for Education Adrian Piccoli announced that the Department of Education and Communities would commence consultation on empowering local public schools at
https://www.det.nsw.edu.au/about-us/news-at-det/media-centre/media-releases/empowering-local-schools-to-enable-better-teaching-and-learning

Empowering local schools to enable better teaching and learning

 He announced that the NSWDEC are moving away from a one-size-fits-all approach and states that that's come very much from feedback from school principals and teachers and parents. They want to see greater flexibility because they recognise – and the NSW Government recognises – that every school is different, every community is different and as such each school needs different things.

 Message from the Director-General, Michele Bruniges on 


http://www.schools.nsw.edu.au/news/announcements/yr2011/aug/lsld/index.php

Local Schools, Local Decisions 

"As a teacher and parent I understand the importance of making sure we have a system that supports schools to respond to the individual needs of children in the classroom, and not one that tries to impose a one size fits all approach.

This consultation process is an exciting opportunity to reshape the way the Department operates by empowering schools to make more decisions to improve the quality of the teaching in their classrooms and improve the learning outcomes for all students."

Join the online forum to have your say: 

• Introduction
• Making decisions
• Managing resources
• Staff in our schools
• Working locally
• Reducing red tape 

NSW Director-General of Education Dr Michele Bruniges discusses the State Government's move to consider offering more authority to schools on News on ABC 23 September.