Principal Professional Development project

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Principal Professional Development project

• This project, as a part of the National
  Partnership on Improving Teacher Quality,
  provides opportunities for alliances of schools
  to drive student, school and systems learning and
  innovation led by school leaders working together
  to create new capacity through new skills, new
  knowledge, and new practice.

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Framing our collaboration
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Purpose of the PPD project

• Create sustainable collaborative learning
  alliances underpinned by system wide communities
  of practices
• Build instructional leadership capacity for
  school and systems improvement
• Lead improvement, innovation and change
• Develop the skills, capabilities, practices and
  pathways for emerging principals and aspiring
  leaders in NSW Public schools

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The Call for Systems Leadership

• It involves
• Developing and leading successful educational and
  organisational improvements
• Acting as a curriculum innovator who develops and
  sustains best practice across the school system
• Building capabilities as a change agent to lead
  transformative change within the complex and
  rapidly changing local and global contexts of the
  21C learning environment

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• System leaders care about and work for the
  success of other schools as well as their own.
  They measure their success in terms of improving
  student learning and increasing achievement, and
  strive to both raise the bar and narrow the gap
  (s).
• They are willing to shoulder system leadership
  roles in the belief that in order to change the
  larger system, you have to engage with it in a
  meaningful way.
• Professor Emeritus, David Hopkins, author of
• Every School A Great School

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The Australian Professional Standard for
Principals
Context School, sector, community
socio-economic, geographic and education
systems at local, regional, national and global
levels

The standard for principals The role in action
Leadership requirements
Vision and values
Knowledge and understanding
Personal qualities, social and interpersonal
skills
High quality learning, teaching and
schooling
Successful learners, confident creative
individuals and active informed citizens
Professionalpractices
Leading teaching and learning
Developing self and others
Leading improvement, innovation and change
Leading the management of the school
Engaging and working with the community
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Innovation to create a Dynamic Learning System

• Australian Professional Standard for Principals ?
• Connect Contribute

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Using the NP Principal Professional Development
to develop a Dynamic Learning System
What makes a powerful school system?
What do leaders need to ensure?
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1. Learning Alliances

• Creating sustainable collaborative learning
  communities (alliances) and system wide practices
  of enabling leadership that will ensure the
  learning of leaders and contribute to student,
  school and systems learning and improvement.

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2. Leadership Design

• Designing quality professional learning and
  curriculum modules to build instructional
  leadership capacity for school and system-wide
  improvement

Leadership Mastery
Mentoring Principal
Proficient Principal
Core Leadership
Novice Principal/ Aspiring Executive
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2. Leadership Design Building capacity through
new knowledge, skills and practices(after H
Timperley)
Providing support through research, facilitators
and implementation team.
Knowledge generation, sharing and distribution of
innovative educational practice
Using national frameworks and tools including
AITSL 360 degree Reflection tool.
Recognition of prior learning and Professional
learning modules.
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2. Leadership Design Using the AITSL 360
Reflection Tool

• The 360 Reflection Tool provides principals with
  the opportunity to
• reflect on their leadership capacity
• monitor change in their leadership behaviour and
  actions
• learn more about their strengths
• better understand and explore opportunities for
  improvement
• gather critical feedback on their performance
• use feedback to reflect on their leadership and
  develop a leadership action plan
• use feedback as one element of their professional
  appraisal
• plan professional learning and development
  opportunities for themselves.
• Registration for the 360 Reflection Tool will be
  available in early 2013.

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3. Organisational Innovation

• Leading futures-focused organisational
  improvement, innovation and change.

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3. Organisational Innovation Embedding Change

• Critical to the PPD project is delivering new
  ways of learning and organisational practice.
• It is expected this national partnership will
  influence school improvement and systems
  improvement

DISCIPLINED INNOVATION - design new learning
practice that is joint, distributed, challenging,
evaluative supported. (After Valerie Hannon)
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4. Leadership Succession Sustainability

• Developing accreditation pathways to enhance the
  skills, capabilities and practices of emerging
  principals and aspiring leaders in schools.
• The processes, projects, practices used in the
  delivery of the partnership in NSW DEC schools
  will support leadership professional learning and
  school improvement beyond the time frame of the
  project itself.
• The delivery will focus on making change with and
  for the people who lead our schools to enable
  them to sustain new ways of working and leading
  into the future.

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• We will be creating the environment for others
  to succeed..
• (Leon Cameron)

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Over to you

• What is your idea for an innovate learning
  improvement project? What new capacity, skills,
  knowledge and practice will it create?
• Who will work with you on it? (Learning
  Alliance)

Project report
Idea for innovation improvement
What will support success?
Project management learning, strategies actions
Learning modules
What can hinder success?
NP
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Expressions of interest are due by close of
business, 22 march 2013