This page provides details about previous seminars, including thinkpieces, post-seminar reports, slide presentations and project updates.
This seminar was a collaboration between NCSL's Leadership Network and the QCA, and aimed to promote broad debate about curriculum development to ensure that it responds to changing demands.
(64kb, 2 pages) (60kb, 2 pages) (108kb, 7 pages)The outcomes of this work will be used to support and inform curriculum modernisation, provide a backdrop for the implementation of specific reforms and ensure that innovation is well matched to education's broader aims.
The new Ofsted arrangements, incorporating the self-evaluation form (SEF) have placed a heightened focus on school leaders’ ability to effectively evaluate their school’s performance across a range of aspects. The need to engage a community of stakeholders in this process offers particular challenges but also opportunities. This seminar enabled school leaders to review their own school’s self-evaluation processes.
(65kb, 1 page) A one-page summary of the dayThese guidance materials aim to help schools consider their existing and future self-evaluation practice.
The seminar explored some of the approaches adopted by schools that have gone some way to addressing the aims of ‘Every Child Matters’ through the development of extended schools. A particular focus was placed on the issues of community, partnership, collaboration and sustainability.
(61kb, 1 page) A one-page summary of the dayPublications and resources related to extended schools and ECM and Standards can be found on our publication pages.
The most recent seminar enabled delegates to review the outcomes of previous seminars, consider the potential that coaching offers for staff development and school improvement, explore implications for their context and develop a way forward.
More than 50 per cent of heads say that they spend significantly more time coaching colleagues than previously. The new National Framework for Coaching and Mentoring has been developed through consultation with a wide range of teachers and professional bodies, including NCSL. We continue to work with practitioners, national agencies and NCSL’s own leadership programmes to integrate coherent coaching approaches across the profession.
The 4th annual conference in which NCSL research associates presented their findings to an audience of practitioners and others interested in school-based research.
(57kb, 1 page) A one-page summary of the day. (79kb, 5 pages)This event examined the important issue of strategic planning, drawing on the NCSL publication Success and Sustainability. Participants considered the study's findings and recommendations, and implications for their schools and leadership practices.
(57kb, 1 page) A one-page summary of the day.Led by Frank Hartle of the HayGroup and John West-Burnham, this seminar aimed to support school leaders in developing the potential for leadership in their schools. It drew on two recent publications for practical steps to identify and grow future leaders.
(1.3Mb, 38 slides) Warning: large filePublications and resources about developing leaders and succession planning can be found on our publications pages.
NCSL has also produced a website called Tomorrow's Leaders Today - a comprehensive and interactive resource aimed at headteachers, aspiring heads, governors and local authorities.
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