Benefits
Being new to headship or acting headship, Early Headship Provision (EHP) will:
- support you in identifying and addressing your leadership learning needs
- provide you with the flexibility to enable you to spend your grant on the learning activities you wish to engage in
- provide access to skilful support from an enabling provider
- enable you to spend your flexible grant with any training provider
- provide access to the highly successful New Visions programme, funded by NCSL
- support you in creating your desired learning pathway through the first years of headship
- provide you with access to a wide range of learning opportunities as your needs emerge
- enable you to experience and understand the value of coaching and collaborative leadership learning
- help to apply your learning to the context of your own school and locality
- bring you into the full membership of headship by connecting you with local and national networks
- help you to recognise the impact that your leadership behaviour has on others and ultimately pupils' learning
NCSL's online communities
As a participant on EHP, you automatically gain access to NCSL's online communities. You will gain access to a private community for your programme and to our public communities.
Our public communities allow you to connect with peers from across the education sector. They are a great place to engage in professional dialogue, to stimulate debate and to learn from the wisdom of others. Within them you have access to a confidential and extensive network of colleagues, experts and policy-makers with whom you can debate, discuss and share ideas.
Find out more about our online communities and watch an introduction to the benefits of online collaboration and discussion 