The SACSA team provides leadership in curriculum and education services within the Learning and Student Wellbeing Team.

In Catholic Education South Australia(CESA) schools , the preferred curriculum framework is the South Australian Curriculum, Standards and Accountability Framework (SACSA).

The SACSA team’s services relate to all aspects of learning, teaching and assessing within the SACSA Framework and include:

• support for school leaders in further development of the key areas of contemporary curriculum leadership, leading of learning and the SACSA framework, grounded in faith, ethos and Catholic traditions
• planning, implementing and evaluating a range of professional development strategies to enable full participation in CESA schools with the key elements of the SACSA framework and contemporary learning and teaching
• specialised advice and support for school leaders in developing improvement and effectiveness in learning to enhance student outcomes
• developing collaborative networks with school leaders, schools, CESA and other agencies involved with SACSA and its development into the future
• responsibilities for aspects of Australian Government programs, including Australian Government Quality Teacher Programmes
  • one example of work in an AGQTP cluster activity is the set of Leadership for Learning Papers (below) compiled by a group of school leaders in 2007.

Since 2006, SACSA team support to school leaders was available in relation to projects in the following areas:

• leading Innovations in Curriculum with SACSA - school-based or regional innovations to implement an aspect of SACSA
• planning to Lead Curriculum Improvement with SACSA – school-based or regional innovations to implement and embed SACSA as the curriculum framework in schools
• learning for Curriculum Leadership of SACSA – collegial opportunities for school leaders to engage with other leaders regarding elements of SACSA and curriculum leadership
• professional Support for Curriculum Leadership with SACSA – team members acting as a critical friend to provide support, challenge and discourse for curriculum leadership
  

 

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