What’s new in Tomorrow’s leaders today?
Update – November 2008
November promises to be a really useful time to visit Tomorrow’s leaders today (TLT) with a whole range of tools and resources to support each of our four key audience groups - local authorities and partners, aspiring headteachers, current headteachers and governors - to find, develop and keep great headteachers and senior school leaders.
If you would like to find out more, please contact anyone in the TLT editorial team: alan.sargeant@ncsl.org.uk, nick.kouppari@ncsl.org.uk or simon.patton@ncsl.org.uk.
Headline news
- Headship ambition increases - read the press release on the latest Headship Index research
- TLT home page feature on the governor succession planning toolkit. This follows the successful series of regional conferences in October
- Online discussions on internship and soft federations
Resources continue to be really popular
As we enter the second year of the succession planning campaign, Tomorrow’s leaders today, all the resources continue to be well used with over 7,000 visitors to the TLT website last month.
New on the shelf is the succession planning toolkit for governors, helping them find, develop and keep good headteachers.
Leading the way with the Applying for headship - practical guides covering topics like:
- financial expertise
- securing accountability
- your application and interview
The series of Evidence into Practice Guides are proving popular, with the following titles currently available:
- What are we learning about... recruiting primary school headteachers?
- What are we learning about... the school leadership labour market?
- What are we learning about... NPQH graduates?
- There will be more to come soon on faith schools and local solutions.
The new interactive guide, Achieving equality and diversity in leadership, has been well received, providing easily accessible information on equality and diversity, and supporting schools, school leaders, governors and local authorities to strengthen and enhance their existing policies and practice.
One-stop Resources centre - If you want to get an overview of all the TLT resources, then visit the upgraded Resources centre; it makes for impressive viewing.
What is happening when?
- Until 14 November - An online discussion, Internship inspires to aspire, with hosts Andy Brown and Paul Bramley, respectively an NCSL National Succession Consultant and NCSL Leadership Network Regional Leader. Both are involved with the Internship programme in the north east of England.
- 14 to 28 November - An online discussion, Soft federation in action, with host Jo Williams, headteacher in a soft federation
- Early November - Case studies from local authorities on their succession planning activities
We need your feedback
As we strive to make TLT focused on the needs of those who use it, we would encourage you to complete our brief online survey to tell us what resources you have found most useful. It will only take five minutes.
