Queensland Department of Education

Queensland’s Department of Education is committed to helping all children and young people realise their potential and become confident, creative and active lifelong learners.

Within a portfolio that includes creating safe and inclusive workplaces, building Queensland’s communities, more than 85,000 employees across 1200 sites are working to give all children a great start and engage young people in learning.

Equity and Excellence: realising the potential of every student is propelling us to create a progressive, high achieving education system with equity at the centre of our efforts. This includes empowering teachers and school leaders, investing in digital innovation, boosting school performance, fostering collaboration between schools and communities, and delivering sustainable school investments.

We prioritise the health, safety and wellbeing of our employees, students and everyone in our schools and workplaces. We also pride ourselves as an employer of choice by supporting wellbeing, work-life balance and creating safe environments for our valuable employees and the next generation of professionals.

Lifting educational outcomes will help every young Queenslander achieve great things no matter their background, circumstances or postcode. By listening to the voices of students, parents, school staff and stakeholders, we can continue to embrace our diverse communities, value culture and create welcoming, inclusive and accessible teaching and learning environments.

Banqer

Banqer’s mission is to prepare the next generation for their financial future.

In our platform’s simulated economy, students safely experience the financial world before leaving school. And our host of teaching and learning resources helps educators deliver authentic (and curriculum-aligned) learning opportunities that extend beyond the classroom.

We know that strong levels of financial literacy are correlated with improved lifelong outcomes. We also know that 70% of surveyed high school educators believe they’re not adequately preparing their students for the financial challenges ahead.

Banqer has proven to improve learning outcomes for young people, with students reporting increases in confidence, knowledge and interest in their finances.

Check out our Banqer High Taster Video to learn more, or visit our ACEL stall.

Career Tools

Career Tools is Australia’s leading career development platform with 1200+ schools on board across the nation. An all-in-one career education resource, it was built by careers advisors, for careers advisors, allowing purposeful tracking, quality provision of impactful careers advice to students and a suite of time saving features to allow practitioners more time with their students. Members receive their own customisable & branded school careers website and personal accounts so that teachers, students, parents and the wider school community can access up to date careers resources and communications.

School Signs by Signpac

Over 25 years of industry-leading experience in educational display and signage, Signpac’s reputation for delivering quality and innovation is now accessible via our dedicated division – School Signs. Now, Australia has a specialist educational sign provider focused on schools. Our mission is to ensure schools are seen and safe by providing Australia’s highest quality school signage products, guaranteed to perform in our harsh climate. We understand and respect the unique aspects of schools and schooling and our decades of experience mean we are Australia's most trusted school signage partner.

PeopleBench

PeopleBench are Australia's school workforce improvement specialists and we’re mission to help schools be great places to work so they can be great places to learn. Through our online tools, benchmarking platform, Community of Practice, and our advisory services, we’re providing the research, technology, and support to help schools and school systems address attraction, retention, and wellbeing priorities.

Dr Selena Fisk

Data Champions – with Dr Selena Fisk – is a 12-month professional learning program and action research project, where school data champions become confident data storytellers, and lead a data-informed project in their school. Selena is a data storyteller and grounded researcher who works with systems, schools, leaders, and teachers to help them identify how data can benefit their students and communities.

Stile

A Stile school builds their own engaging science curriculum using a world-class starting point. Much more than just a resource, Stile's comprehensive planning support, administration reduction and professional learning program allows early-career and out-of-field teachers to flourish, whilst also providing the flexibility that experienced educators expect and need.

ONIX

ONIX is Australia's leading media production company helping corporate and education brands create impactful content. Specialising in video production, photography, strategy and social media, ONIX increases brand awareness, boosts enrolments and engages through storytelling. From promotional social media content, campus tours, student testimonials, capturing events, to enhancing course material, ONIX produces high quality, evergreen content to help schools, universities and educational institutions communicate with clarity to engage, drive admissions and reach goals. ONIX Productions are proud sponsors of ACEL’s National Conference in 2023.

Arthur Reed Photos

ARP is a proud second-generation family business specialising in School Photos and has established itself as one of the industry leaders. With a team of 60 dedicated employees, ARP is proud to offer ‘view before ordering’ and a system where all orders are despatched to the home, significantly reducing waste and timelines. Reduced timelines include ID card delivery within 7 days and portal images in just three.

Atlas Curriculum Management

Inspire Student Success with Atlas Curriculum Mapping

Atlas, the leading curriculum management platform, is designed to meet your school’s and district’s curricular needs. Atlas empowers schools worldwide to seamlessly initiate, revamp, and refine their curriculum development process in one unified system.

Atomi

Atomi is an online teaching and learning platform that extends learning beyond the classroom and allows students, teachers and schools to work better together. We’ve reached hundreds of thousands of students and teachers across Australia and the UK through our online videos and interactive lessons, intelligent testing and powerful insights.

CathEd Careers Queensland

From the city to the regions, the outback and the coast, Queensland Catholic Education offers the opportunity of an extraordinary career in any of our 276 schools, while you explore the diverse beauty of our Sunshine State across our five dioceses. A career with Queensland Catholic Education is more than a job. Visit our stand and discover where you belong!

Daymap

Daymap, is a highly configurable "one stop shop" designed to streamline school operations for staff, students, and parents. With a range of features we help schools manage everything, from attendance and wellbeing to curriculum, assessments, reporting, and communication. With over 20 years experience, we have a deep understanding of the challenges faced by schools, and have leveraged this to create a comprehensive learner management system.

EC by Go1

Providing high-quality professional learning to all staff is essential for school improvement. However, doing this well each year can often be a costly and time-intensive task for school leaders.

EC Premium provides a powerful solution to this challenge, with unlimited access to world-class PL, by subscription.

For just a fraction of your school’s regular PL budget, your staff can now access our growing library of K-12 content by some of the world’s best providers, at any time, from the comfort of their own device. With thousands of learning K-12 courses and learning items, from more than 65 providers, including a wide range of sessions on diversity and inclusion.

EC Premium is brought to you by Go1, Australia’s most exciting ed-tech, and is led by an award-winning K-12 team that truly understands schools.

Book a demo today or learn more at ec.inc to see why EC Premium is a must-have for your school.

Epilepsy Smart Australia

Epilepsy Smart Australia aims to improve quality of life for people with epilepsy through evidence-based information, resources, tools and support. It is a collaborative partnership between Epilepsy Foundation (Vic/NSW), Epilepsy Queensland, Epilepsy ACT, Epilepsy WA, The Epilepsy Centre (SA/NT) and Epilepsy Tasmania.

Growth Coaching International

Growth Coaching International is a leading organisation in the field of coaching in education. We are passionate about enhancing the quality of conversations in educational communities through high quality coaching, courses and consultancy services. Thousands of educators, including school and system leaders, have participated in GCI courses and coaching since 2002.

Haileybury

Haileybury is one of the leading independent schools in the Asia-Pacific region with four campuses across Melbourne, day and boarding in Darwin and Haileybury Pangea Australia’s first private online school. Haileybury’s South East presence spans across China, Vietnam, the Philippines, and Timor-Leste. Haileybury offers the full spectrum of flexibility when it comes to teaching options including how and where you teach. Discover more.

headspace

headspace Schools & Communities division provides evidence-based mental health promotion, prevention, early intervention and postvention support services to communities across Australia. As part of headspace National Youth Mental Health foundation, we exist to reduce suicide risk among children and young people, by partnering with education, health, and community sectors to help build mental health literacy.

Our Mental Health Education Program (MHEP) Team facilitates free mental health education workshops to students. We are also a delivery partner of Be You, the national mental health and wellbeing in education initiative led by Beyond Blue in collaboration with Early Childhood Australia. Be You offers accredited Professional Learning, online sessions and events, resources, and ongoing support from consultants to educators from all learning communities across Australia.

Mental Health First Aid

Mental Health First Aid® Australia is a global not-for-profit organisation that develops and delivers evidence-based mental health first aid education via a national network of more than 3,000 Licensed Instructors. Established in 2001, the organisation aims to improve mental health literacy, reduce stigma and improve capacity for community care.

Nelson Cengage

Nelson Cengage is a lead education business in Australia committed to developing award-winning and pedagogically sound education resources for Foundation up to Year 12. The student and educator are at the centre of Nelson’s learning ecosystems.

Real Schools

Transforming and enhancing your school’s culture through a focus on what really counts, Real Schools exists to build partnerships and experiences to help your school achieve its potential through Committed Teachers, Caring Students and Connected Communities.

Red Earth

Red Earth connects schools with Indigenous Australia through meaningful service learning immersions, from class-sized groups to whole-grades and staff Professional Learning immersions. Our groups experience life, culture and history on Country by staying with Traditional Owners on their remote, permit-protected Homelands. With Indigenous partners across Central Australia, The Top End, Cape York, The Kimberely and Lake Mungo, we have connected 7500+ people on Country and generated $5.5m for Indigenous communities. Visit our booth or www.redearth.edu.au to find out more.

RemServ

RemServ is a leading provider of salary packaging administration services in Queensland and part of the McMillan Shakespeare Group. We've offered salary packaging and novated leasing services to everyday Queenslanders for over two decades, empowering them to make the most of their salaries through the delivery of real work and lifestyle benefits.

Smiling Mind

Smiling Mind is creating a generational change in mental health. Our tools and programs cultivate lifelong skills to promote mental fitness, as an integral part of people's everyday lives. Our vision is to create positive, transformative change in the way Aussies think, feel, talk about, and nurture our mental health.

We are a digital-led, preventative mental health not-for-profit. Our evidence-based programs are delivered in workplaces, schools, and homes, offering practical and proactive support for minds of all ages and stages.

Toddle

Loved by 40,000+ educators across 1800+ schools around the world, Toddle is an all-in-one teaching & learning platform for progressive schools. Toddle empowers teaching teams to work together and better for curriculum planning, student portfolios, assessments, reports, family communication, and streamlined accreditation - all from one intuitive interface.

TryBooking

TryBooking’s online event ticketing and registration system is used by over 4000 + schools to organise events.

TryBooking enables schools and parent volunteers to dramatically reduce the time spent on administrative tasks – experience less paperwork and easier financial management. Schools are using TryBooking to manage registrations, fundraising, RSVPs, seated performances, tabled functions, fetes, alumni and other school community events.

Verso Learning

How engaged are your students?
Elevating the significance of student voice to improve student engagement and increase teacher impact.

The Verso check-in tool uses AI and machine learning to provide regular and concrete feedback on what students actually know and what they need to learn next. Visit our stand to hear about the measurable impact Verso is having in classrooms.

YOUmanity

YOUmanity are experts in enhancing your schools’ culture to allow for more effective and happier educators. Visit us on stand 22 to hear how our services will provide you and your team with more time to do what you love, educate. YOUmanity, your partner in Education for Organisational Strategy, Leadership Recruitment and Culture Transformation.