Leading Together

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Leading Together Learning for Action Learning
from Action Good morning !
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• What are we learning ?

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Our Aims

• Develop a model and definition of community
  leadership
• Develop a body of knowledge evidence of impact
• Develop leadership at all levels
• Promote effective team work within school, with
  the community and with agencies
• Involve young people, parents and communities
• Promote networking and collaboration between
  schools, communities, voluntary groups and other
  agencies to improve outcomes
• Make a difference to the lives of children, young
  people, families and communities and those who
  work with them

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• NCSL Community Leadership
• Strategy
• 4 dimensions
• 4 domains

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Leadership dimensions Context Place
Orientation standards, well being , social
justice Purpose better outcomes for children,
families, young people Style partnership,
distributed, shared
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NCSL Community Leadership Strategy
Building community within organisations student
leadership, distributed leadership, workforce
remodelling
Building community Between organisations Networke
d learning, collaboratives, federations

• NEW
• Knowledge
• Tools
• Relationships
• Processes
• Actions
• Outcomes

Building community in a multi-agency Context Mult
i agency teams/joint planning and provision
Building community between schools communities
parents, local, business and wider community
Local strategic partnerships and networks
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The leadership challengeBonding and bridging

• Organisational improvement bonding
• Community leadership bridging
• Moving from bonding to bridging
• leadership behaviours

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Learning from our experiences of leading
together

• Aims
• To learn from and with other leaders
• To understand the 4 different dimensions of
  community leadership and how these connect to
  your own experiences
• To consider what factors enable leading together
• To consider the barriers to leading together

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Bridging between institutions and communities
I would argue strongly that reviewing education
in an area needs to encompass not just individual
schools but all those in the local system within
a community. Coherent leadership across all
areas is called for and this requires leadership
which might require stepping across cherished
institutional autonomy. David Bell January 04
What are your experiences of leading together?
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Your experiences of leading together
Building community within organisations student
leadership, distributed leadership, workforce
remodelling
Building community Between organisations Networke
d learning, collaboratives, federations
What leadership practices and behaviours were
demonstrated ?

Building community in a multi-agency Context Mult
i agency teams/joint planning and provision
Building community between schools communities
parents, local, business and wider community
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World café round 1

• Choose 1 example from your experience, of leading
  together. Decide which zone of the game board
  this belongs to (if in a group, try and go to
  different zones).
• Move to the zone which corresponds to your chosen
  experience and sit with colleagues you dont
  know.
• Groups can be no more than 5 people.
• Introduce yourselves and find out whose birthday
  is next! This person becomes the scribe and
  chooses a timekeeper.
• Share your stories of leading together you have
  15 mins.
• Scribes should record the key features of the
  stories

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World café round 2

• Move to a new table within the same zone (scribe
  does not move)
• Scribe summarises previous discussion and the new
  scribe is the person who travelled the shortest
  distance to get here!
• Focus of the discussion the dos and donts of
  leading together what works? What doesnt?
• Use the cards to stimulate discussion and prompt
  debate.
• You have 25 mins ensure all have opportunity to
  speak.
• Scribes should record what works, and what
  doesnt, on the prepared flip chart paper

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World café round 3

• Move to a new table within the same zone (scribe
  does not move)
• Scribe summarises previous discussion and chooses
  a new scribe
• Focus of the discussion what are the tensions
  when leading together?
• Use the cards to stimulate discussion and prompt
  debate.
• You have 15 mins ensure all have opportunity to
  speak.
• Scribes should record on the same flip chart
  paper as round 2

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Your experiences of leading together
Building community within
organisations
Building community between organisations

Building community between schools
Communities
Building community in a multi-agency
context
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The role of the community in making the schools
vital is just as important as the role of the
school itself. For in a community where schools
are looked upon as isolated institutions, as a
necessary convention, the school will remain
largely so in spite of the most skilful methods
of teaching. But a community that demands
something visible from its schools, that
recognises the part they play in the welfare of
the wholeSuch a community will have social
schools, and whatever its resources, it will have
schools that develop community spirit and
interests. Skilbeck, 19709, p.125

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• Never doubt that a small group of committed
  citizens can change the world, indeed it is the
  only thing that ever has.
• Margaret Mead