Principal For A Day

Principal For A Day invites business and community leaders to ‘shadow’ a school principal for a day. This year’s event is being held on Thursday 7 September.

Principal For A Day aims to increase understanding, awareness and partnerships between schools, businesses and the community by providing leaders with first hand and current experiences of schools.

We are in search of business and community leaders to participate in this program. In particular:

• business leaders with business networks, knowledge, skills, expertise and experience who are willing to contribute to a school community, and

• community leaders with community networks, knowledge, skills, expertise and experience who are actively involved in their community and well regarded by others as a leader within that community.

On Thursday 7 September participating business and community leaders become a principal for a day by ‘shadowing’ a school principal and participating in normal day-to-day activities in a Victorian primary, specialist or secondary school.

Participation in this program provides business and community leaders with a first-hand experience of the role of a principal in Victoria’s government schools and the opportunity to make a difference to a school community.

For principals, it is a welcome occasion to learn, share leadership experiences and perspectives and build lasting relationships with the wider community.

The details of the day are determined collaboratively by the ‘paired’ participants prior to the event, based on school needs and shared objectives.

Participation in Principal For A Day can be used as a ‘taster’ for any budding school/community partnership opportunities you may be pursuing, as the first step in sourcing possible collaborative opportunities, as a confirmation of an existing partnership, or a one-off event.

For more information about Principal For A Day, go to our website at https://www.acer.org/pfad.

To apply, follow the link via our website https://www.acer.org/pfad.

You will be advised if successful by Friday, 18 August 2017.

We look forward to hearing from you!

Principal For A Day’s mission is to increase and strengthen partnerships between schools and the community by:

• increasing understanding and awareness between schools, business and the wider community

• promoting the great work that schools do

• providing business and community leaders with first-hand and current experiences of schools

• enabling school principals to develop on-going relationships with leaders from other spheres

• increasing opportunities for schools and the community to work together in mutually beneficial ways.

*Principal For A Day® in Australia is modelled after the program of the same name developed by PENCIL (Public Education Needs Civic Involvement in Learning) in the United States. ACER acknowledges the generosity of PENCIL in allowing the use of their materials.