CaSPA Board Update

• CaSPA Board met via Zoom on 19 September to discuss AERO Research priorities for 2025.
• Also on the agenda was preparation for our joint meeting with ACPPA coming up in October. The is a great deal of common ground for joint advocacy with our primary colleagues at the moment.
• Update of comparative data from ACU regarding the 2023 Principal Wellbeing Report. The presentation compared CaSPA Data with the data for all school leaders in Australia. Top 4 concerns for CaSPA Principals were: Sheer Quantity of work, Staff Wellbeing, Teacher shortage and Student wellbeing.
• ACU Survey to continue in 2024 and looking for more acceptance of the data and recommendations from some sections of education in Australia.
• The October board meeting has just been held in Adelaide and included the joint meeting with our Primary Principal Colleagues from ACPPA and working on a joint strategy to advance the principal wellbeing agenda in all jurisdictions
• Stephen Kennaugh and Michael Lee reported back on the International Confederation of Principals (ICP)  Kenya Conference https://icponline.org/  and General Meeting  https://icponline.org/magazine-new/
• Following on from our previous meeting the CaSPA board endorsed the following recommendations to the Australian Education Research Organisation (AERO ) for research topics for 2025
• Leadership development and succession planning: what are the conditions for success, including autonomy and remuneration?
•   Student wellbeing: relationship between resilience and wellbeing
• Principal wellbeing 
• Numeracy, particularly the transition from primary to secondary
• As well as an extra topic of looking at what do successful schools look like, what are the common characteristics?
• The Board also spent some time finalising it’s strategic priorities for 2025

Combined Meeting of CaSPA and ACPPA Boards