LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT Coralee Pratt Manager School Leadership and Development Unit

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LEADERSHIPDEVELOPMENTCoralee PrattManager
- School Leadership and Development Unit
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Leaders are born and not made.
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You either have it or you dont.
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Cream rises to the top.
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• RESEARCH REVEALS TWO COMMON MISBELIEFS
• Need the Right Stuff

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Leadership can be learned!
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The Development Learning Framework for School
Leaders

• Key Messages
• Leadership is learnable
• Start with what the learner knows
• Learning is developmental

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The Development Learning Framework for School
Leaders

• www.eduweb.vic.gov.au/edulibrary/
• public/teachlearn/leader/developmental_learning_fr
  amework_20070418
• EMR Website - Schools - A-Z Leadership
  Developmental Framework

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Learning To Lead Effective Schools 2007 Programs
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• Aspiring Leaders
• Leading in Effective Schools
• Leading Across Effective Small Schools
• Preparing for Leadership
• Leaders in the Making
• Leading Professional Learning
• Scholarships
• Master in School Leadership
• Eleanor Davis Program
• Leading for Student Learning (AGQTP)

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• Leadership Teams
• Building Capacity for Improvement
• Building the Capacity of School Leadership Teams
  (AGQTP)

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• Assistant Principals
• Human Leadership Developing People
• Stepping Up to the Principalship
• Educational Leadership Shaping Pedagogy
• Eleanor Davis Program
• Technical Leadership Thinking and Planning
  Strategically
• Master in School Leadership
• Scholarships

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• Principals
• Mentoring for First Time Principals
• Master in School Leadership
• Coaching to Enhance the Capabilities of
  Experienced Principals
• Development Program for High Performing
  Principals
• Building Leadership Capacity of Principals of
  Small Schools (AGQTP)
• Big Day Out Forum

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EMR Leadership Development 2007 Opportunities
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Aspirant Principals

• Aspirant Principal Network
• - Breakfast forums
• - Practical workshops
• - Seminars with leading educators
• - Opportunities for acting roles
• - Professional Readings
• Journey Into Leadership Program
• SAGE Program
• Leading Managing Staff
• Covey Program
• 2008 Principal Class Conference

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Principals

• New Principal Induction program
• Regional Directors Forum
• SAGE Mentoring program
• Principal Class Leadership Conference
• Giving Receiving Constructive Feedback
• Forums with Leading Educators
• Health Wellbeing Program
• International Study Tours

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RESEARCH REVEALS TWO COMMON MISBELIEFS 2.
Leadership development equates to programs
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• Equally important is experiential learning
  through
• shadowing opportunities
• mentor / coaching
• acting roles
• internships (USA, Canada)

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• The only way people can learn is by doing things
  theyve never done before. Those who do only what
  they already know how to do never learn anything
  new.

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• Building leadership capacity at the school level
• identify, encourage, nurture
• take responsibility for the Framework
• contextual, not done in isolation

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Does your school

• effectively disseminate information about
  leadership programs?
• have a distributed leadership model?
• provide opportunities for leadership
  development?
• have a strategic plan to best utilise the
  Developmental Framework?

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For further assistance EMR School Leadership
Development Unit