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Next Practice in System Leadership. www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/innovation-unit www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/innovation-unit/investigation/nextpractice_main/ ?version=1. Next Practice in System Leadership. What is Next Practice?.
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Next Practice in System Leadership • www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/innovation-unit • www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/innovation-unit/investigation/nextpractice_main/ • ?version=1
Next Practice in System Leadership What is Next Practice? ‘Practice that is aware of conventional 'good' practice, its strengths and its limitations; and which explicitly sets out to move it to a new level, or even in some cases radically to change it.’ • Conducted by very able, informed practitioners • Informed by critical scanning of the environment to ensure that the projects are not replicating other work • Directed at serious, contemporary problems • Not (yet) officially sanctioned and therefore maybe entailing some risk.
Next Practice in System Leadership CURRENT PURPOSES/DRIVERS Support schools causing concern Deliver ECM ‘five outcomes’ Deliver ‘All-age’ learning Develop 14-19 curriculum provision Develop ‘whole town’ services Deliver shared services more efficiently Resolve headteacher succession issues Wider system receptivity/support FUTURE PURPOSES/DRIVERS Market development Dissolving school boundaries User demands for personalised services LBSI Leadership development needs Multiple Sites Multi- Agency Structures Skills Strategies Behaviour Govt Policy Roles Knowledge User- centred Shared Leadership Scaling-up
L E A D E R S H I P Linking Connecting Assembling Constructing Designing, sourcing, gathering Operating Functioning Lived in Roles Responsibilities and structures Knowledge and skills Tasks Approaches and Processes
GOVERNANCE ARRANGEMENTS Organisation Orientated Stakeholder Orientated User Orientated Decentralised, Participatory Lateral, Occasional Top-down, Closed
Next Practice in System Leadership • Some comparisons: • The Conglomerate • The Community • The Alliance • The Self-organising network • The Employee-owned school network • The Consumer governed service