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Building Early Leadership GEOFF BARTON
Building Early Leadership • How it was • How it is • How it could be 6
Building Early Leadership How it used to be
Building Early Leadership Lawrie Lowton John Baumber Roy Samson
Building Early Leadership Michael Fullan: Teachers’ careers = 1 x 25
Building Early Leadership Teacher Training
Building Early Leadership LEADERSHIP
Building Early Leadership Step 1: Create a leadership culture
Building Early Leadership Nowadays all the children behave like adults and all the adults behave like children (Terry Waite) The need for leadership
Building Early Leadership If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can’t, you’re right. (Henry Ford)
Building Early Leadership The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen. (Frank Lloyd Wright)
Building Early Leadership Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win. (Bernadette Devlin)
Building Early Leadership "I've missed over 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times I've been trusted to take the game-winning shot . . . and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed." (Michael Jordan)
Building Early Leadership If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more … you are a leader. (John Quincy Adams)
Building Early Leadership Step 2: Create a learning-enriched school Rosenholtz
Building Early Leadership Learning enriched schools “It is far easier to learn to teach, and to learn to teach better, in some schools than in others” Rosenholtz
Building Early Leadership Learning enriched schools (Schools are places where students go to watch the teachers working - JWB)
Building Early Leadership Learning enriched schools Research culture Challenge hierarchies Collaboration Experiment & evaluate
Building Early Leadership Step 3: Talk pathways & expertise
Building Early Leadership • THEN: • Fixed roles • Individual • Autocratic • Control • Managed • NOW: • Flexible roles • Shared • Collaborative • Release • Managing
Building Early Leadership Central place of the portfolio
Building Early Leadership Competent Novice Advanced beginner Proficient Expert
LPSH Headship NPQH Leadership Team Whole-school coordination Advanced skills teacher Middle management Subject leader qualification Aspiring subject leader Induction QTS / Career Entry Profile Initial Teacher Training
Building Early Leadership Core role Teaching expertise Career management
Building Early Leadership Step 4: Demystify leadership
Building Early Leadership Break up groups Challenge age = experience assumption Open up the leadership team Publicise decision-making processes
Building Early Leadership Step 5: Grow your own leaders
Building Early Leadership In-house middle management training: Key ingredients
Building Early Leadership Step 6: Look beyond your school
Building Early Leadership Placements Visits Coaching Case studies Shared training opportunities
Building Early Leadership Summary: Leadership is central to good teaching Don’t underestimate the quality of educational leadership Use a good model of learning Every teaching appointment is a potential leadership appointment Create a culture of leadership In-house leadership training, however rough around the edges, is essential Look beyond the school
Building Early Leadership GEOFF BARTON