Appendices - Department of Education and Communities - NSW ...

APPendixStrategic outcomes achieved included:■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■new staffing procedures that continued to provideschool communities with more say in selecting the bestteachers for their schools - in the 2008/2009 staffingoperation schools had the opportunity to choose how tofill 54% of vacant classroom teacher positionsadditional support for permanent beginning schoolteachers rolled out to all areas of the state, with 2,877beginning teachers being supported through provisionto schools of the equivalent of one hour per week foreach beginning teachera range of innovative initiatives developed under theSmarter National Partnerships on Improving TeacherQuality and Low Socioeconomic Status SchoolCommunities including the establishment of Centresfor Excellence and the new classifications of HighlyAccomplished Teachers and paraprofessionals, and theprovision of additional incentives to attract and retainhigh quality teachersthe OHS Management Program, which provides aframework for schools to plan and review safety systemsin the workplace ensuring continuous improvementmanagement of the human swine influenza pandemic“contain” and “sustain” phases supported incollaboration with NSW HealthOHS training provided to 1100 committee membersand representativesnew awards for school and TAFE teachers and relatedemployees, providing salary increases of 12.48% overthree yearsthe new TAFE teachers award that provides enhancedflexibility to better position TAFE NSW for the futurethe establishment of a new system of enforcing schoolattendance, including case conferencing before theChildren’s Courtscreening over 70,000 applicants for child relatedemployment in the public and private NSW educationand training sectorreduction of the incidence of vandalism in schools duringvacation periods■■training in the management of incidents involvingviolence, weapons, illegal drugs and other criminalactivity provided to approximately 600 school executives.Stephen WilsonSES Level 6, $315,850Chief Information OfficerStephen Wilson’s responsibilities as Chief InformationOfficer within the Department include guiding thestrategic direction of the Department to best underpinteaching and learning in a connected environment. Hisresponsibilities include managing the Department’sInformation Technology Directorate (ITD) and a numberof high-profile projects, including Connected ClassroomsProgram, Learning Management and Business Reform(LMBR) Program and technical leadership of the DigitalEducation Revolution.CIO magazine has ranked the information andcommunications technology (ICT) environment withinthe Department, the largest and most comprehensivein Australia with over 96,000 employees, 1.2 millionstudents and over 350,000 devices, as Australia’sNo. 1 ICT organisation.During 2009, Mr Wilson provided leadership inthe provision of state-of-the-art information andcommunications technologies to students and teachers inNSW government schools and TAFE colleges. This includedthe provision of computers to government schools as partof the ongoing Technology for Learning Program with thedelivery of in excess of 35,000 new computers and theprovision for the first time of over 16,000 laptops for useby secondary school staff.Mr Wilson was the chief architect of the NSWGovernment’s plan to provide one laptop computerto every Year 9-12 NSW government school studentto support the Commonwealth Government’s DigitalEducation Revolution. This $442 million project will seeover 200,000 laptops distributed across more than 500APPENDICES 97