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Leading Educational Transformation: Future Challenges & POSSIBILITIES Professor Alma Harris Director, Institute of Educational Leadership. High Performing Education Systems. The world’s centre of high performance in school education is now Asia.
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Leading Educational Transformation:Future Challenges & POSSIBILITIESProfessorAlma HarrisDirector, Institute of Educational Leadership
High Performing Education Systems • The world’s centre of high performance in school education is now Asia. • Four of the five top-performing systems are in Asia. Hong Kong, Shanghai, South Korea and Singapore
TWO Most Powerful Levers • Leadership Quality • Teacher Quality
IMPROVING School performance • Leadership is second only to the influence of • teaching and learning on student outcomes (Leithwood, Harris and Hopkins, 2008)
School /SYSTEM Improvement • Does not occur without some change in leadership or leadership practice
Leadership: What we Know • Leadership is thekey lever of high organisational performance. • Successful organisations have wisely and widely distributed leadership. • Effective leaders grow and manage other leadership talent
FIVE DIMENSIONS OF EFFECTIVE SCHOOL LEADERSHIP (Robinson, 2008)
What type of school leadership transforms organisational performance and outcomes?
Successful Heads Successful heads use the same basic leadershippractices, but there is no single model for achieving success (Source: Leithwood, Harris and Hopkins (2008) • Successful heads distribute leadership progressively
Distributed Leadership Matters(Harris, 2013) Distributed leadership is primarily concerned with leadership practice. Rather than a preoccupation with those ‘who lead’ it addresses what and who leadership is for?
Distributed Leadership MATTERS (Harris, 2013) • Leadership shifts according to need • Collaborative teams formed for specific purposes • Team membership changes according to task, roles and expertise
High Performing SCHOOLS & EDUCATION Systems • One of the hallmarks of educational excellence and success is the nature and extent of professional collaboration. • Focused and systematic professional collaboration can be a powerful influence upon changing and improving teaching and learning.
Institute of Educational Leadership • An International Hub for Excellence in Leadership • Academic Icons and Distinguished Associates • New Masters in Educational Leadership
Asia Leadership Research Project ‘Leading Educational Transformation in Asia’ Alma Harris, Michelle Jones, Esther Daniel, David Reynolds and Christopher Chapman Published by Springer in their series: Education in Asia Pacific Region: Issues Concerns and Prospects
Asia Leadership SummitLeadership in 2050 January 8 – 10 2014Who challenges your thinking?
YOGYAKARTA, INDONESIA 2-7 JANUARY 2014 • Royal Ambarrukmo, and Yogyakarta State University • Redefining Education, Learning, and Teaching in the 21st Century: The Past, Present and Future of Sustainable School Improvement