The Leading 21st Century Schools: engage with Asia program

AEF's Leading 21st Century Schools: Engage with Asia (L21CS) Program helps school leaders build Asia capabilities and drive the change to support Asia literacy across the school community, as well as fostering a collegiate support network with school leaders and educators. L21CS has been designed as a blended model of professional learning with self-paced online modules, a webinar series and face-to-face professional learning through the AEF Annual Conferences 2013 and 2014. Since its inception in 2008, the L21CS program has involved over 900 school leaders, from a diverse range of schools representing every jurisdiction across Australia. School-based improvement projects have focused on areas such as Asian languages, studies of Asia, developing strategic alliances and partnerships, or building staff knowledge, skills and capacities. The article offers three examples of the work being done.