This page provides details about previous seminars, including thinkpieces, post-seminar reports, slide presentations and project updates.
This event looked at how local areas and partnerships across schools can develop solutions to succession planning by:
Practical issues and challenges were explored and the event drew on the expertise of participants to plan the next steps for their area or group of schools.
(146kb, 12 pages)Presentation slides:
(87kb, 5 pages) (377kb, 18 pages) (55kb, 13 pages)Workshops:
(238kb, 14 pages) (400kb, 27 pages) (45kb, 5 pages) (80kb, 5 pages)Schools around the country are exploring a range of different models of leadership, from co-headship to federations.
This seminar explored how models of headship emerge, what the drivers are behind them and the change process involved.
(76kb, 7 pages) Presentation slides:
(1,041kb, 21 pages) Warning: large file (293kb, 12 pages)Robert Hill presented a keynote at the conference based on his book for ASCL. Achieving More Together: Adding value through partnership (2008) draws together existing knowledge and practice about what makes for effective partnership working between schools, and between schools and colleges. It uses research evidence, a specially commissioned ASCL survey of school and college partnerships, evidence from the private sector and other public services, as well as detailed case studies of a range of educational partnerships in England and Wales.
The guidance paper summarises the key issues, discussed in more detail in the book, for school and college leaders to focus on when forming, running and leading partnerships.
(35kb, 8 pages) (76kb, 8 pages) (47kb, 7 pages) (187kb, 9 pages) (129kb, 9 pages)This seminar presented the findings from two NCSL projects – the ‘a life in a day’ research and the redesign headship project.
Presentation slides:
(77kb, 4 pages)(82kb, 11 pages) (73kb, 12 pages) (37kb, 18 pages) (120kb, 13 pages) (1,162kb, 72 pages) Warning: large fileThis event shared the outcomes of the 'ECM Premium Project' which is analysing the evidence base for the impact of Every Child Matters (ECM) on standards of achievement and attainment. It assessed what leaders are doing to make a difference to standards, through a focus on the ECM five outcomes.
Leadership development tools and case studies of practice also featured in this seminar.
Presentation slides:
(96kb, 13 pages) (226kb, 18 pages)Recent research into sustainable schools, commissioned by NCSL, has provided evidence of how school leaders develop sustainability and identified the leadership skills and qualities needed.
This event:
This event was run by Leading Practice and the NCSL Leadership Network.
(136kb, 11 pages)In 2007, the Secretary of State announced an additional £110m and a commitment that all new schools designed through Building Schools for the Future (BSF) must be carbon neutral.
The aim is that schools become more sustainable, minimising their impact on the environment. But the learning that takes place in those new buildings must also be 'sustainable' in the sense that they can be designed to meet the changing needs of learners and learning in the decades to come.
This seminar explored current policy and research, identified best practice in this field and informed NCSL's future work in this area.
(126k, 11 pages)
(107kb, 7 pages) (172kb, 12 pages) (195kb, 17 pages) (731kb, pages) (37kb, 8 pages) (27kb, 4 pages) (26kb, 10 pages)Focusing on the changing shape of primary school leadership, this event considered the need for collaboration between schools; for flexible models of leadership; and for greater distribution of leadership. It drew upon a range of different professional skills, for example, the role of school business managers both within single schools and across a number of schools.
Implications of some key issues facing primary leadership for headteachers, local authorities, policy-makers and the wider system were all explored.
(101kb, 10 pages) (75kb, 5 pages) (80kb, 8 pages) (2.7mb, 25 pages) Warning: large file (121kb, 7 pages) (93kb, 19 pages) (135kb, 19 pages) (318kb, 11 pages) (440kb, 12 pages)Drawing on a range of local initiatives from the Tomorrow's leaders today project, this seminar:
(107kb, 12 pages) (440kb, 12 pages) (141kb, 10 pages) (470kb, 24 pages) (149kb, 99 pages) (96kb, 2 pages) (120kb, 14 pages)This seminar aimed to address four key issues, namely:
This seminar was attended by over 70 school leaders from across the UK, as well as representatives from local authorities and other organisations with an interest in school leadership issues.
(110kb, 9 pages) (45kb, 9 pages) (147kb, 9 pages) (107kb, 12 pages) (153kb, 6 pages) (255kb, 18 pages) (80kb, 7 pages)This seminar explored 'new kinds of smart' - a view that moves beyond traditional thinking about IQ. School leaders discussed how they are moving forward with their own personalised learning in order to develop 21st century independent learners. This seminar was run in partnership with The Talent Foundation and the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). Key speakers were Dr Bill Lucas, Professor Stephen Heppell and Professor John West-Burnham.
(450kb, 18 slides) (101kb, 8 slides) (204kb, 17 slides) (381kb, 17 slides) (115kb, 9 slides) (63kb, 4 slides) (102kb, 9 slides) (94kb, 12 slides) (520kb, 36 pages)
find us | press office | vacancies | learning and conference centre | about this site | legal | site map
© National College for School Leadership
