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NSW SECONDARY PRINCIPALS’ COUNCIL

NSW SECONDARY PRINCIPALS’ COUNCIL. Successful strategies for secondary succession 27 July 2011 Presenter Christine Cawsey President NSW Secondary Principals’ Council Principal Rooty Hill HS. Scenarios for the Future.

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NSW SECONDARY PRINCIPALS’ COUNCIL

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  1. NSW SECONDARY PRINCIPALS’ COUNCIL Successful strategies for secondary succession 27 July 2011 Presenter Christine Cawsey President NSW Secondary Principals’ Council Principal Rooty Hill HS LEAP Conference 2011

  2. Scenarios for the Future • Succession planning is a major issue for NSW government secondary schools, the regions and the system. • It is estimated that 40% of principals will retire between 2012 and 2015. • The average age of deputy principals is higher than principals and 67 new secondary deputy principals were appointed for 2011 in NSW. • There are significant shortages of teacher and leader expertise in some parts of the state. LEAP Conference 2011

  3. What would you do if? • As a school leader you knew that you would need to replace 12 teachers for 2012 as senior teachers retired or moved to other schools? • As a systems leader you had to advertise 5 times to get sufficient applicants for a remote school principal position? • As a systems and school leader you were faced with replacing 5000 expert and experienced teachers and leaders in the next five years. LEAP Conference 2011

  4. What would you do? + Things that will help you get there. strategies, etc. Where do you want to be? Succession secured Strategies, actions - Things that will hinder your progress Where are you now?

  5. You would get serious about succession planning • Pipelines, pools, reservoirs – how do Dean’s metaphors apply to secondary schools in NSW? • Your school? Your system? Secondary education? • The strategic choice: recruit and reward the few or leverage the whole profession through standards…… LEAP conference 2011

  6. Middle managers Teachers The skills shortage…..

  7. The Application Rubric- rate skill levels

  8. Rate your own team – 2011 & 2015 LEAP Conference 2011

  9. What is a school of professional practice? 3.Teacher & leadership expertise is built & sustained It is a school that has Improvement in student learning & teacher learning at its heart. 2.Data & evidence underpin planning, programs and practices. Personalised learning • Academic & • professional goals • focus on • learning not • performance

  10. What do leaders do in leading a school of professional practice? In a school that has improvement in student learning & teacher learning at its heart, leaders… 6. Build & sustain their own pedagogical and leadership expertise 5. Manage change With people Leadership learning 4. Act strategically

  11. Strategic leadership & stupidity prevention HAVE DO Strategic leadership links. BE

  12. Mapping professional learning – building teaching capability

  13. What expert teachers do…. • Expert teachers have “complex repertoires” and almost all of the following 33 elements would be seen in any one lesson: • High levels of participation –attention, engagement, stimulation, pleasure and consistency • Deep knowledge focus – environment, purpose, substance, explanations, modeling and metalanguage • Orchestrating the demands of the classroom – awareness, structure, flexibility, pace and transitions. • Strong scaffolds – constant formative assessment and working from where students are at, scaffolding tasks, quality feedback, responsiveness, explicitness (of words and texts) and persistence. • Targeted and differentiated instruction – intellectual challenge, individualisation within the full class, inclusion, variation, connection • Mutual respect – warmth, rapport, credibility, attention to citizenship, independence. Louden, 2006

  14. Mapping professional learning- for secondary leaders

  15. The skills of expert school leaders • Expert leaders use quality tools for planning, implementing and evaluating • Expert leaders get permission to lead • Expert leaders understand positional and personal leadership • Expert leaders ask powerful questions and have powerful conversations • Expert leaders have emotional intelligence • Expert leaders have clever ways of thinking • Expert leaders know how to lead for change • Expert leaders manage ideas • Expert leaders use diagnostic maps

  16. Succession strategies that work • Focus on preparation not induction • Recognise that the school is a critical and powerful learning place…so make it work. • Give real life experience in real situations..internships, mentoring, coaching and all those skills of leaders. • External programs have a place..but your leaders need to be able to “hit the ground running” in times of shortage. • Build teaching & leadership capability at the same time …don’t wait. • Not everyone will be a leader…act strategically as though they will…focus on the whole team. LEAP Conference 2011

  17. Details Christine Cawsey Principal Rooty Hill HS President NSW Secondary Principals’ Council PO Box 70 Rooty Hill 2766 Phone: 612 96258104 Fax: 612 96254208 Email: christine.cawsey@det.nsw.edu.au Learning for Leadership: Building a school of professional practice ACER 2008

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