Principals as Literacy Leaders in Indigenous Communities

Principals as Literacy Leaders in Indigenous Communities  (PALLIC) is running from July 2011 to December 2012 under the direction of Griffith University in Queensland, the Northern Territory and South Australia across 46 nominated school sites with medium to high Indigenous student enrolments. The schools' 46 Principals and their Indigenous Leadership Partners, will work with 6 Literacy Leadership Mentors who are mid-career principals on secondment from their respective jurisdictions

The PALLIC project objective is to develop the literacy and leadership capabilities of school and community leadership teams and thereby improve SAE literacy outcomes for Indigenous students in partnership with their families.  In a nut shell, PALLIC is about Principals and their Indigenous Leadership Partners coupled with their school's Learning Catalysts working together with support from Literacy Leadership Mentors to make a difference to the teaching of reading in their schools.

PALLIC funding is managed by APPA and the project's direction by a Management Committee made up of representatives from APPA, State and Territory Education and Griffith University. The PALLIC facilitators are from Griffith University: Professor Neil Dempster, Professor Greer Johnson, Dr Amanda Webster and Adjunct Professor Jan Robertson.

Read more: http://www.appa.asn.au/images/projects/pallic/PALLIC%20Summary%2020110923.pdf