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The 2025 ASPA National Summit
2025 ASPA National Summit Report
The 2025 ASPA National Summit brought together school leaders, policymakers, and sector stakeholders to discuss equity, leadership, and innovation in Australian public education. This report highlights key themes, speaker insights, and strategic priorities that emerged from the event.
The Summit Gallery
This gallery showcases key moments, speakers, panel discussions, and the vibrant energy of our professional learning community.
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2025 ASPA National Summit Highlights!
The 2025 National Summit featured contributions from prominent leaders in education and policy. Here are a selection of video highlights and vox pops from the Summit. Scroll down to view more details from each session and engage with the important discussions shaping the future of education in Australia.
Jason Clare MP
Senator Sarah Henderson
Senator Penny Allman-Payne
Tim Bullard
Strengthening Leaders
The Future of Schooling
Flourishing Students
Student Wellbeing
ASPA Summit Overview
Welcome! Principals, teachers, parents, students, community organisations and NGOs, policy makers and bureacrats are meeting together on Ngunnawal and Ngambri country on March 25, 2025 at Parliament House in Canberra to have a constructive and collaborative conversation about the future of secondary school education in Australia.
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The only national forum of its kind, and building on the success of the 2024 Summit, this event aims to help shape and influence a progressive, ambitious agenda for building a world-leading public education system that places equity of opportunity for every Australian student at the heart of policy and strengthens the capacity of our school communities to lead that important work.
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Andy Mison
Introduction: Andy Mison, ASPA President
Shaping the Future: The Role of Principals in Education Policy and Reform
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As we convene for the 2025 ASPA National Summit, we do so at a critical juncture in Australian education. The complexity of the challenges we face—ranging from technological disruption and social change to environmental and global political instability—demands a renewed commitment to collaboration and effective policymaking. As school leaders, principals must play a central role in shaping the design and implementation of education policy to ensure that the needs of students remain at the heart of reform.
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Readings & Resources
Our summit will focus on three interconnected themes:
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Flourishing Students
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Strengthening Leadership
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Transforming Systems​
To help you prepare, and inform our discussions we have provided some stimulus materials along with a collection of associated resources here on this website. Click each heading or picture below to explore. Contact as at admin@aspa.asn.au if you would like to suggest further readings and resources to add to this repository.
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Youth Delegation
ASPA has worked in partnership with Young Change Agents, the ACT Principal's Association and the ACT Education Directorate to bring young people aged between 15 and 19 from a range of diverse school communities across Australia to participate and contribute to our Summit.
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They are participating in a parallel workshop hosted at Canberra College on Monday, March 24th, to distill their own policy perspectives and prepare them to contribute at the Summit at Parliament House.
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Our Sponsors
We are proud to be partnering with the following businesses who exclusively work with Australian schools. You can view more information by clicking on their logos
Summit Partners
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Philanthropic Partner
