Leadership Essentials Colette Jones

• Session One- • Passion and purpose- “Why am I here?” • Session Two- • Our Core Business- • Developing Effective Learning and Teaching • Session Three- • Building Winning Teams • Session Four- • Insights- Top Tips for Effective School Leadership

Leadership Essentials

• What are your personal and professional ambitions?

• Who or what inspired you to be here today?

Passion and purpose- “Why am I here?”

Leadership Essentials

Who or what defines our success as school leaders?

How do we know when we have done a great job?

What drives you?

What do you bring to the party?

Who judges our impact?

You are amazing and unique!

Dream Big

Moral Compass

“Leadership is a scary thing...that’s why few people want to

stand up to the plate......There are many people who want to be

matadors, only to find themselves in the ring with a 2,000 pound

bull bearing down on them, and then discover that what they

really wanted was to wear tight pants and hear the crowd roar.”

Steve Farber

Courageous leadership

Steve Covey- 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

Weaving our magic

National Standards for Headteachers/ School Leaders

National Standards for Headteachers in focus: Schools

with a religious foundation

Passionate Leadership by Brent Davies and Tim

Brighouse

The Teacher’s Oath- what would be in your oath as a school leader?

Relection

• Write down two actions you are going to take as a result of this session.

• Write down when you will take these actions.

• Tell your neighbour. Socially commit.

Break

National Standards Learning and Teaching

Objective: To understand how to monitor and improve the Quality of Teaching Look at the National Standards for Learning and Teaching Using a 1-10 scale, where 10 is entirely confident and 1 is “ I have no clue...” please mark down a score next to each one. To avoid being socially exposed, only mark those that you would give 6+ to and make a mental note of those that need some work.

OFSTED- evidence

In your current schools, imagine that you are taking the Lead Inspector on a Learning Walk around your school. You want to showcase the best practice in your school. Where would you take them? Why would you take them there- link this to the Evaluation Schedule Grade Descriptors? Question- would your middle leaders know where to take a Lead Inspector and why.....do all staff understand the OFSTED judgements and what they need to do?

Monitoring the Quality of Teaching

• Process

• Transparency

• Quality Assurance

• Strategy

• Learning

• Tell the truth, but kindly

• Coaching

Quality Assurance

• Do we get what we expect? Or do we get what we inspect?

• Quality Assurance in Learning and Teaching-

a. Outcomes and progress

b. Marking and feedback

c. The student experience

d. Student engagement and behaviour

e. Learner environment

Student and Staff Entitlement

“Best Coat” Lesson observation

“Anxious colleague” Lesson judgement

How is brilliance shared in your schools? How is it identified? How is underperformance challenged? Is the process clear? Is the process fair? Do you give your team leaders sufficient training and support to manage both?

Learning and Teaching Strategy

What do we mean by “Strategy”?

• What is Strategy and Why is it Important? • It is important in schools to have an agreed understanding of what

is meant by strategy to facilitate discussion and debate about the strategic direction and development of the school.

• The dimensions of strategy to build that common understanding: • A. Strategy is about direction setting. • B. Strategy is about the medium to longer term. • C. Strategy is about whole school broader trends or actions. • D. Strategy is about strategic thinking and taking a strategic

perspective. • E. Strategy acts as a template for current actions. • F. Strategy is about providing for the long-term sustainability of the

school.

What questions should a Teaching and Learning Strategy answer?

Think about the sub sections a school’s Teaching and Learning Strategy should have. Who? How? What? When? Why?

Curriculum

• Curriculum content

What we teach

When we teach it

How we deliver it

Keep out of the long grass

Philosophy and Reflection

Sir Ken Robinson- food for thought...

Mission Statement

Lunch

• If you have one, please bring your iphone/ ipad/ Smartphone to the next session as you will need it....

It’s the Team that makes the Dream! Objective: To explore strategies for building

winning teams

Who is in your team?

Team Dynamics

Know your team

• Second rate leaders surround themselves with third rate individuals to avoid challenge and to be flattered.

• First rate leaders look for those who are first rate, who will challenge, support and offer a different perspective....You need difference.

• Who do you have conflict with? Do you know why?

Personality types

• www.humanmetrics.com

• Personality tests- Jung and Briggs Myers

• Personality types

• Process and discussion

Personality Types- summary

What motivates people?

What causes conflict?

• Beliefs and attitudes

• Habits and behaviours

• Systems

• Politics; ethics; emotions

Love your team

Yes, even those who irritate you

• Loving Kindness Meditation- You Tube Script

• Ho’oponopono

Loving Kindness

Break

• Next session-

• Top Tips and OFSTED judgements

OFSTED Evaluation of Leadership and Management

• Outstanding leadership at all levels

• Using the Grade Descriptors ( leaving out the first one) put them in order of priority.

Moral Purpose

Top Tips

• Don’t be a matador!

• Enjoy being with the students-every day.

• Know your school well- intelligent accountability; Self Evaluation; Accountability frameworks

• Data; data and more data.....

Top Tips

• If you plan to be a headteacher, know how to write a timetable. A well written timetable is the oil in the engine room of a school.

Understand and manage change

Top Tips

• Tell the truth, but kindly

• Value difference

• Authentic leadership- you are your own expert

• Manage change effectively- no surprises- explain the why as well as the how

• Keep out of the long grass

Data Phobic to Data Queen/King

What data is there?

• What exists in your school?

• How is the data used?

• Student level data

• Teacher level data

• Management level data

• National data

Manage Your Time Respect Others’ Time

Be Present and Find Balance