Lutheran Education Australia

July 2020

The freedom of absolute goals

Our schools and early childhood services are, and will continue to be, welcoming and inclusive places of learning for staff and students from all traditions. However, one of the potential traps facing Lutheran education in the quest for inclusiveness is a bland attempt at ecumenism and syncretism where aspiring to teach anything inoffensively ‘kind-of Christian […]

Our future strategy

Help us plan how we can best strengthen Lutheran education across Australia in the coming years. The Board for Lutheran Education Australia (BLEA) is listening to the Lutheran education community to prepare our 2020-2023 Strategic Directions. BLEA is delegated by the General Synod of the LCA the responsibility for developing the strategic direction for the […]

NEW! Accredited Induction for Lutheran Education (Ai)

The Board for Lutheran Education Australia has adopted the new status of Accredited Induction for Lutheran Education (Ai) for early childhood staff. LEA is working with the early years working group (Lyndal Mayer, Lynette Schiller and Kimberley Powell) to explore how early years contexts can be supported to deliver Connect. In many schools, non-teaching staff […]

Leadership Development Program (LDP) Review

Emeritus Professor Beverley Oliver has been appointed as the consultant to undertake the LDP review. Surveys and interviews of principals, recent LDP participants, regional managers of the LDP and those involved in the delivery of the current LDP are almost complete. The final report is due in August 2020 and we look forward to her […]

2020 Leadership Development update

A variety of activities were presented to schools and ECSs in November of 2019 to continue leadership development opportunities this year while the LDP is under review. We partnered with BTS Spark and were fortunate that over 40 emerging leaders were able to participate in the leadership days and follow up webinars. Unfortunately, activities such […]

Two PhD Scholarship opportunities

Redeemer Lutheran College has partnered with Lutheran Services Qld and others to apply for and receive a national NHMRC grant for a 5-year project relating to intergenerational living and learning called Grandschools. The lead universities for this research project are QUT, ACU and Deakin universities. The website for this project is https://grandschoolsproject.wordpress.com/ There is an exciting […]