Approaching sustainable Systems Leadership as a Cluster'

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Approaching sustainable Systems Leadership as a
Cluster.

• Fiona Chant and Vanessa Scargill

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Finding the Leadershipin Everyone

• Our Cluster Who we are and what we do
• How we are working together to explore Systems
  Leadership as a Cluster collaboration creates
  capacity
• Parental engagement
• Student voice / leadership
• Transition
• Core values
• Shared responsibilities as Leaders
• Developing Leadership Capacity
• Systems Leadership the wider community
• Governors role in Systems Leadership
  collaboration creating capacity for well
  developed Governor leadership

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From top down to equal partnership

• We are currently an informal partnership with
  networks embedded in trust.
• We are a strong network. We are innovative. We
  are resilient and have good communication. We
  invest time into strategic planning.
• We have grown very rapidly in the last 3 years
• We need to approach formalisation with
  sensitivity to achieve sustainable systems
  leadership

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Making a difference

• Small steps
• Giant strides
• Family Learning
• Impact on Learning
• Role of PSA
• Transition
• Relationships between schools

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Core Values

• A strong collaborative cluster built on core
  values
• Every child at every school has a set of values
  as part of their ethos
• Every adult at every school believes and lives
  these values
• Wider community understanding

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Developing Leadership Capacity

• 10 heads better than 1
• Building Networks
• Ownership
• Discovering talent
• Nurturing potential
• Finding the leadership in everyone

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Shared Responsibility

• Children
• Support Staff
• Teachers
• Middle Leaders
• Headteachers
• Governors

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Parental engagement

• Parents have the greatest influence on the
  achievement of pupils through supporting their
  learning in the home rather than supporting
  activities in the school. It is their support of
  learning within the home environment that makes
  the maximum difference to achievement

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Effects of parents / effect of schools

• achievement parents / school
  effects
• age 7 0.29 /
  0.05
• age 11 0.27 /
  0.21
• age 16 0.14 /
  0.51
• 
  
  from Sacker et
  al (2002)

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Student Leadership Student Voice

• Exploring Student Voice across a Cluster of
  schools and placing that contribution at the
  heart of our development is a precious opportunity

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Wider Community contribution to Clusterwide
Systems Leadership
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Governors

• Developing the leadership capacity of Governors
  through CPD, evaluation and through developing
  effective networks.

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How are we nurturing the leadership in everyone ?

• How we have begun to explore systems leadership
  in a Cluster context
• Working with parents
• Student Voice
• Transition
• Core Values
• Governors
• Wider community

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Thank you

• Fiona Chant and Vanessa Scargill
• head_at_johngaunt.norfolk.sch.uk
• vscargill_at_aylshamhigh.norfolk.sch.uk