NCSL live online seminars offer you a continuing professional development opportunity, completely free of charge, simply by logging on to hear a guest speaker via your PC speakers or the freephone telephone number provided. As well as listening, you can view presentations, ask questions and interact with the session through our 'webinar' software.
To take part in a seminar, look out for details on this page or see our advertisements on the website home page or in the NCSL in Dialogue community in talk2learn. There's a simple enrolment process, after which you'll be sent details of a link and password to join the seminar at the specified time.
If you miss a seminar, a recording of it will be made available here. If you have any access problems, call the NCSL helpdesk on 0845 609 0009 or email enquiries@ncsl.org.uk.
Advance enrolment is necessary for all seminars.
Register for School business managers: their role in distributed leadership
4-4.30pm, Thursday 11 September 2008
A chance to hear about Financial Controller of Hockerill Anglo-European College and Research Associate Mark Aldridge's research, which reviewed the impact of the key drivers on school leadership, evaluated distributed leadership research from a school business manager perspective, and surveyed what is happening across UK state schools.
Register for Co-headship as part of succession planning
4.30pm, Tuesday 7 October 2008
Co-headteacher at Colleton Primary School, Berkshire and NCSL Research Associate Nicola Allan explores the possibility that co-headship could be part of the solution to the recruitment challenge in school leadership. This seminar will be useful for those considering co-headship and those considering appointing co-headteachers. This online seminar will be proceeded by an online discussion in talk2learn from 19 September to 3 October.
Leading sustainable schools
Seizing Success 2008: Annual Leadership Conference seminar
July 2008
How can leaders ensure that they are addressing the challenge of sustainability in their schools? Richard Jones, Headteacher of Hagbourne Primary, shared his school's learning and progress to date.
Exploring the strategic role that headteachers and governors carry out in partnership
August 2008
School Improvement Partner and Research Associate Gilly Harwood-Smith's research explores the strategic role that headteachers and governors carry out in partnership, in three case study schools. Within these three contrasting primary schools are school governors who have assumed this strategic responsibility. Alongside them are school leaders, both voluntary in their governor role and professional in their headteacher role, who are working together in equal partnership.
Replay Growing leadership from within
Seizing Success 2008: Annual Leadership Conference seminar
June 2008
Staff and students at Beauchamp College in Leicester describe the impact of student leadership in this extended school.
Replay Making good progress
Seizing Success 2008: Annual Leadership Conference seminar
June 2008
Val McGregor and David Linsell discuss the pilot of Making good progress, a key initiative of the DCSF's personalised learning agenda.
Replay Developing local solutions for succession planning
We join the recording as Chris Kirk, NCSL Director of Succession Planning, talks about the impact of local solution activity.
June 2008
Replay National Professional Qualification for Headship (NPQH) redesign
NCSL Operational Director Jane Doughty talks about the redesign of NPQH.
March 2008
Replay Applying for headship
Recruitment Specialist Peter Addison-Child reviews the themes in the Applying for headship online discussion and answers your questions. March 2008.
Replay Mitigating Mobility: leading a school with high service mobility
Joy McCormick and Mike Chislett from Service Children Education discuss Mitigating Mobility, an online community research project focused on improving the experience of school transfer for service students and families.
March 2008.
Replay ´Better together´
Dr George Otero, Laura Chapman and Maggie Farrar examine the Every Child Matters agenda
December 2007
Replay ´Innovative and sustainable leadership development´
Professor Amin Rajan, Chief Executive of the Centre for Research in Employment and Technology in Europe
November 2007
Replay ´Leadership Library launch´
Alan Sargeant, NCSL E-learning Manager
November 2007
Replay ´Leadership Library launch´
Alan Sargeant, NCSL E-learning Manager
November 2007
Replay ´Appropriate and inappropriate ambition´
Ben Walden, Associate Director of Olivier Mythodrama and Director of Contender Charlie
November 2007
Replay ´New kinds of smart´
Bill Lucas from the Talent Foundation and Professor John West-Burnham
November 2007
Replay ´ECM Leadership Direct launch seminar´
Maggie Farrar, NCSL Operational Director for Every Child Matters (ECM) and Standards
September 2007
Replay ´The golden era for school leadership?´
Toby Salt, NCSL Strategic Director for School Leadership Development
May 2007
Replay ´The jigsaw of a successful school´
Tim Brighouse
February 2007
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