Welcome to the ACE Aotearoa e-newsletter
Kia ora tatou
The year is fast coming to a close and the festive season is nearly upon us - but we are pushing ahead with planning for some of next year’s big events and now have some key dates for your 2010 diaries.
 Book these dates now!
Hui/Fono: June 9-11
ACE Conference: June 11-13
Adult Learners’ Week: September 6-12
ACE Conference 2010, June 11-13
Wellington will host the 2010 ACE Conference and we now have dates and a venue. The conference will be held at Rutherford House, Victoria University of Wellington’s city campus from June 11-13, with the theme to be finalised soon. We will have more information for you in the December E news.
Hui/Fono 2010, June 9-11
Wellington will also host next year’s Hui/Fono which will take place during the two days prior to the ACE Conference, June 9-11.
Submission on the Draft Tertiary Education Strategy
ACE Aotearoa has prepared a submission on the draft Tertiary Education Strategy. It is available on the ACE Aotearoa website.
ACE Aotearoa PD Workshops for Schools
ACE Aotearoa is offering professional development (PD) workshops for schools who have received allocations of funding for ACE in 2010. The workshops will focus on how to better:
• engage learners who have not traditionally engaged in ACE in the past, especially Maori and Pacific learners
• embed literacy and numeracy in ACE programmes.
The workshops are funded within the larger PD programme that ACE Aotearoa is co-ordinating on behalf of the whole ACE sector. For more information contact terry@aceaotearoa.org.nz
National ACE Networks Strategy
On 29th October, 26 representatives of ACE Networks met to put together a national strategy for facilitating sector-led ACE Networks. The strategy is the end result of work done at regional hui held around the country. It is a living strategy that will be further developed and refined over time and is informed and led by the sector.
It has as the main principle that each regional network will develop a pathway that best meets its needs and those of its communities. This may include having more localised networks within the larger regional network, decisions about resource distribution and how the Tiriti O Waitangi based approach is enacted.
The ACE Networks national strategy was in response to the Marion Bowl paper about the importance of networks and concerns from networks themselves that they were not sure how a network could be most effective. The Network strategy is NOT prescriptive about what networks can and should do, but rather a system collaborating and sharing... information, ideas, Professional Development, needs, successes, problems etc.
The facilitation role taken up by ACE Aotearoa will be informed by the networks. The ACE Aotearoa Executive are presently considering the draft strategy and the implementation plan and this will be released to all involved in early December. ACE Aotearoa is looking forward to collaborating with ACE networks to ensure their sustainability into the future.
Adult Learners’ Week/He Tangata Mātauranga Advisory Group Meeting
The Adult Learners’ Week/He Tangata Mātauranga Advisory Group met earlier this month to review the 2009 celebration and plan for 2010. A number of recommendations for next year’s celebration came out of the meeting including retaining the 2009 theme and design concepts. The dates for the 2010 celebration are September 6-12 and there will be a call for expressions of interest from regions who would like to host the 2010 launch early in the new year.
ACE Aotearoa Summer Newsletter Coming Soon
Our final newsletter for the year is packed with great stories of innovative teaching practice, and recent and coming events. Watch out for it in December.
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