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| 11.30am-12.45pm | Mini-plenary: The future of school leadership Question time panel session with:
Workshop: Translating successful programmes into successful outcomes – secondary Workshop: Leading beyond your school Workshop: Every Child Matters - leadership for a new agenda Workshop: School self-evaluation |
| 1.45-2.45pm | Mini-plenary: Mick Waters, Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA) Workshop: Translating successful programmes into successful outcomes – primary Workshop: 14-19 agenda Workshop: Next Practice - leading beyond a single institution Workshop: Growing tomorrow´s leaders: the succession challenge |
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| 10.15-11.15am | Mini plenary: The importance of schools to contribute to wider social development and community integration Trevor Phillips, Chair of the Commission for Racial Equality Workshop: Leading curriculum innovation Workshop: Leading personalisation - what does it mean? Workshop: Every Child Matters - leadership for a new agenda Workshop: Growing tomorrow´s leaders: the succession challenge |
This secondary workshop will explore:
The session will be run by Mark Pattison, Chief Executive of the National Strategies and Peter Walker, who has recently taken up post as National Secondary Director after seven years as headteacher at Park View Academy, a fresh start school in North London.
Recent years have seen increasing opportunities for school leaders, in varying roles, to have an impact on school performance beyond their own schools. This development of 'system leadership' has happened at a local level with the deployment of 'executive headteachers', for example, and on a national scale through the introduction of Primary Strategy Consultant Leaders and School Improvement Partners. A key challenge for the system is to ensure that the most effective leaders and their schools' leadership teams have the capacity to 'lead beyond their own schools' – to work with other leaders and leadership teams to improve children's achievements and well-being. In this session, primary and secondary headteachers who have fulfilled the roles of executive headteacher, consultant leader and school improvement partner will explore through discussion and questions some of the similarities and differences between the roles, the characteristics of success, and the implications for developing capacity to lead beyond their schools.
Hasan Chawdhry, Headteacher, Edinburgh Primary School, Waltham Forest
Roy
Lyon, Headteacher, Wilmslow High School, Cheshire
Erica Pienaar, Headteacher, Prendergast
School, Lewisham
Sally Stanton, Headteacher, Kanes Hill Primary School, Southampton
This workshop will explore the ECM agenda and the leadership challenges and opportunities it creates for school leaders and others. The workshop will include an overview of the context and will draw on current leadership development work in this area. Claire Young and colleagues from Estover Community College in Plymouth will be joining us to share their approach to the development of a cross-phase, cross-sector community campus. Participants will then have an opportunity to share their own practice and debate some of the complex leadership issues in the delivery of ECM.
Liz Dunstan, Vice-Principal, Estover Community College (acting head in September)
Graham Browne, Vice-Principal, Estover Community College
It is important for a school to know how well it is serving its pupils and what its priorities are. For a number of years schools have been developing self evaluation systems so they can identify their priorities for action, monitor their implementation and review outcomes. These processes enable schools to focus on priorities that will clearly achieve improved outcomes for pupils. The DfES initiative "New Relationships with Schools" and the related developments in Ofsted inspection have raised the profile of school self evaluation. In this session Paul Grant, a highly successful secondary headteacher from an outstanding London school, will share his approaches to the practice of school self evaluation. In summer 2005 Robert Clack School was one of the first secondary schools to be inspected under the revised Ofsted framework. Paul will illustrate, through the seminar, how his experience of this inspection developed and improved the school's approaches to self evaluation.
Paul Grant, Headteacher, Robert Clack School, Barking and Dagenham, London.
This primary workshop will explore:
The session is run by Mark Pattison, Chief Executive of the National Strategies, Paul Wagstaff, National Director Primary and Tim Day and Rob Staples, the head and deputy head from De Havilland Primary School in Hatfield, Hertfordshire.
In this session Yasmin and Diane will explore the implications and timescale surrounding the introduction of the new specialised diplomas and functional skills qualifications and consider the way in which one school is beginning to address the issues. In addition there will be an opportunity for delegates to discuss and identify specific development needs associated with the implementation of these proposals.
Yasmin Bevan, Headteacher, Denbigh High School, Luton
Di Barnes,
Operational Director, Strategic Initiatives - Secondary, NCSL
Next practices (as opposed to 'best practices') can be viewed as "emergent innovations that could open up new ways of working – and they are much more likely to come from thoughtful, experienced, self-confident practitioners trying to find new and more effective solutions to intractable problems" (Charlie Leadbetter).
The Innovation Unit is pioneering next practice methodology as a way forward for purposeful, disciplined interventions which optimise the scope of professional creativity. The first focus is on leadership beyond a single institution – and radical patterns are emerging in federations, clusters and networks; Every Child Matters collaborations; 14–19 collegiate arrangements – and even "education other than school". This workshop will both set out the agenda and invite practitioner participants to contribute to ideas outside the frame of current practices
Valerie Hannon, Director, Innovation Unit
David Jackson, Director,
Networked Learning group, NCSL
This session draws on the Developing a 21st Century Curriculum project linking NCSL's Leadership Network and QCA. The project involves over 50 schools actively engaged in developing curriculum innovation in their own institutions. The session will comprise an overview of the project by QCA's, followed by two presentations from schools involved; one primary-based and one secondary-based. There will be time for participants to discuss the leadership implications arising from the presentations and ask questions of the presenters.
Gareth Mills, QCA
Primary
Sally Bates, Headteacher, Albany Infant and Nursery School, Nottingham
Hilary
Craike, Headteacher, Stevenson Junior School, Nottingham
Secondary
Armando Di Finizio, Vice Principal, City Academy, Bristol
This is an interactive workshop session (not a briefing) designed to help participants uncover the aspects of the personalisation agenda that will be important for their own school context.
Louise Johns-Shepherd
This workshop will explore the ECM agenda and the leadership challenges and opportunities it creates for schools leaders and others. The workshop will include an overview of the context from Dame Pat Collarbone (TDA) . Dela Smith from Darlington Education Village will be joining us to share their approach to building leadership capacity to meet the ECM five outcomes, promoting new forms of governance, and enabling community engagement and cultural integration across phases and sectors. Participants will then have an opportunity to share their own practice, and debate some of the complex leadership issues in the delivery of ECM.
This workshop gives some in-depth (and, in some cases, surprising) information about the demographic and other challenges in securing enough school leaders for the future and developing the characteristics and confidence that will be needed by future leaders. Building from an evidence base from this country and abroad, the education sector and others, it illustrates ways in which we can all play a part in tackling this challenging.
The issue of leadership succession has achieved prominence of late, as many school leaders will be retiring in the next five years and headteacher recruitment appears increasingly challenging.
NCSL has been charged with advising ministers on succession and, since March, has been working with Michael Barber and colleagues from McKinsey; Tom Bentley and colleagues from Demos; and leaders from professional associations, governor groups, local authorities, the denominational sector and headteachers to gain a thorough understanding of the full picture and develop responses which are both achievable and involve school leaders themselves, local area groups, and others working together to make them a reality.
In this workshop, we will:
Jane Creasy, Operational Director, Succession Planning and Knowledge Management,
NCSL
Michael Barber or Nina Bhatia, partner of McKinsey
Tony Smith, Headteacher,
Dartford Grammar School
Iwan Davies, Deputy Head, Dartford Grammar School
Fred
Paterson, Senior Research Officer, NCSL
Whether you are a school leader, from an local authority or representing another stakeholder group, you will find this workshop on one of education's major challenges informative, stimulating and useful.
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