ExE – British CouncilColombia, June 2012

School Leadership Development

Raphael Wilkins

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Relationships between business management and school leadership

A personal narrative

Schools as ‘big business’: general (campus) management

The ‘industry specifics’ of school leadership

How schools work as organisations

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Two meanings of ‘Education’

1. Social control and training, to transmit culture and prepare people for (a predictable) life

2. Enabling the ‘blossoming’ of the individual to the full extent of their aptitudes so they can optimise an unknown future

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Education and Culture ‘Education embraces formal and informal domains’

Colin Brock (2011)

‘Education is the process of “encounter” between individual capacities and culture, in which both are changed’

Jane Roland Martin (2011)

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School leadership in context

1. Headteacher as sustainer of continual improvement

2. Headteacher as expert problem-solver

3. Headteacher as the unlocker of potential

4. Headteacher as initiator and builder

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Dimensions of educational innovation

Aims and purposes: changing aspirations

The nature of interpersonal relationships: from fear to student voice

‘Technologies’ of teaching and learning, including ICT

Curriculum

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Through what activities do ‘leaders’ ‘lead’?

• Influencing policy-making• Contributing to governance• Management• Professional practice• Administration• Symbolic actions and personal example• Communication: oral/written, external/internal, formal/informal, conscious/unconscious

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Leadership development: a hierarchical model

Development programmes in:

• Beginning leadership• Early leadership• Middle leadership• Senior leadership• Preparation for Headship• Induction and early development for headteachers• Development for experienced headteachers• System leadership

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Leadership development: a thematic model

Development programmes in:

• Leadership of teaching and learning• Strategic and business leadership• Pastoral leadership and student engagement• Leadership of professional development and culture• Leadership of resource management and learning environment• Leadership of research engagement• Leadership of external relations and partnership with parents

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