This page provides details about previous seminars, including thinkpieces, post-seminar reports, slide presentations and project updates.
Multi-agency working is tough but very rewarding. It can take all our skills of leading, negotiating, influencing and adapting. When it works it has significant benefits for children and families and can help revitalise organisations as different perspectives help challenge and improve the school. It is at the heart of the every child matters and extended schools agenda.
This seminar drew on the work of the NCSL Multi agency Team Development programme (MATD) and the National Qualification in Integrated Centre Leadership (NPQICL). Examples of good practice were shared along with tools and processes that enabled people to reflect on their own leadership.
(69kb, 9 pages)14-19 reform is one of the most significant and far reaching set of developments that, over the next two to three years, will affect every school, college and student.
This seminar brought together school and college leaders and policy makers, including the Department for Education and Skills (DfES) and the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA) to share examples of emerging good practice and placed this within the broader context of curriculum innovation.
Presentations from the day are listed below:
(105kb, 9 pages) (290kb, 25 pages) (31kb, 2 pages) (80kb, 12 pages) (920kb, 25 pages) (374kb, 9 pages) (43kb, 14 pages) (30kb, 2 pages)Trusts have provoked intense debate within government and in the media, but it is still far from clear what their impact will be or what the full implications might be for school leaders.
This event heard from policy-makers and practitioners involved in the development of a trust. The presentations below were presented by schools, local authorities and early pathfinders who have explored the concept of setting up their own trust status.
Presentations from the day are listed below:
(288kb, 10 pages) (69kb, 10 pages) (505kb, 10 pages) (77kb, 8 pages) (293kb, 7 pages) (240kb, 10 pages) (99kb, 6 pages) (77kb, 8 pages)These were just some of the questions addressed in the seminar that took place at the Energy Clinic on 27 March.
The event brought together school leaders to share their work, to hear the findings from the research and to inform the College's own efforts to support sustainable development into the future.
Presentations from the day are listed below:
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(101kb, 21 pages)School leaders from all phases attended this event which centred on practitioner enquiry, offering the opportunity to engage with their colleagues in dialogue around a wide range of leadership issues. 18 NCSL research associates encouraged lively debate and discussion focused on their own practitioner research studies.
Leadership in relation to the following themes were explored:
Chris Day, Professor of Education at the University of Nottingham and Co-Director of the Teacher and Leadership Research Centre (TLRC) provided both a stimulus and framework for the day, drawing upon the recently published study 'Seven strong claims about successful school leadership' (NCSL 2006)
Keynote presentation – Chris Day (111kb, 22 pages)
Find out more about the Research Associates Programme.
Those involved in special educational needs provision have experienced significant change in recent years, as greater sophistication in the identification of, and provision for, complex needs has been accompanied by radical local and national reorganisation.
During this period, there has been a growing body of work across special and mainstream provision and, in a number of areas, leaders of special education provision have become leaders of local system change.
This seminar was led by such school leaders - those who have extensive experience of cross-school and cross-agency working. It offered an opportunity for school leaders, from both mainstream and special education sectors, to learn from one another's expertise and to explore strategic and practical issues relating to more integrated and effective provision both within schools and across local areas.
(173kb, 6 pages)This seminar brought together over eighty school leaders and policy-makers to explore the role of the school leader, against the backdrop of the major changes that have taken place in schools over the past 20 years and that are continuing today, including through new accountability arrangements, workforce reform, 14-19 and ECM.
(48kb, 5 pages)
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