Plateau Effect

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Education Reform A Global Agenda

• Plateau Effect
• Performance Variability
• Determinism

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Emerging Consensus

• Twin Pillars for Transformation
• Quality of A Schooling System cannot exceed
  Quality of its Teachers
• (McKinsey)

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School Leadership Matters (OECD)

• Empirically validated
• Indirect/proximal effect
• Greatest where learning needs are greatest
• Antidote to variations in performance
• Leadership as the Practice of Improvement (Elmore)

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Leadership the Enabler

• Archimedes/Fullan
• Energy Flow/Brighouse
• Interface/OECD
• Only Leadership can bring (it) all together
• (Southworth)

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The Prize

• Optimising School Leaders Contribution to
• Student Learning
• Professional Learning
• Systems Learning

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The Challenge

• How such leadership can be
• Identified
• Nurtured
• Developed
• Sustained

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OECD Report

• Affirming
• Challenging 4 levers
• A Call to Action
• - Policy
• - Employing Authority (s) level
• - School/Site level

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A Systems wide agenda

• requires root-and-branch reform of inherited
  traditional bureaucratic systems of recruiting
  and training leaders, of paying and rewarding
  them and of shaping their incentives both short
  term and long term including pension
  arrangements.
• (Michael Barber)

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• A mans praises have very musical and charming
  accents in anothers mouth, but very flat and
  untuneable in his own
• (Xenophon)

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Directions of Travel consistent with OECD
Framework

• Re purposing Leadership/Leadership Development
• - Leadership of Teaching and Learning
• - Learning Centred Leadership is Critical
• When School leaders seriously address within
  school variation it can make a significant
  difference
• (Munby)

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• Lead Curriculum development
• Monitor and evaluate the quality of teaching
• Lead teacher Professional development
• Build a Culture of Collaboration amongst teachers
• Use DATA effectively to improve practice
• Ensure that resource allocations are consistent
  with pedagogical practices

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• MODELLING
• Example is not the main thing in influencing
  others it is the only thing (Albert Schweizer)
• MONITORING DATA RICH
• Conversation
• DIALOGUE Co-Construction
• Constructivist

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From To Comfortable Demanding Introverted O
utward looking Input Focused Results
Focused Evidence Light Evidence Based
(Barber)
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Revisiting Preparation for Headship

• Leadership supply a strategic imperative
• Repurpose PQH
• - Candidates - trainee Headteachers
• - Secure/Enhance Quality
• - Enrich the journey/ Contextual Literacy
• - Ownership
• Profession
• Employing Authorities
• - Eradicate the Preparation/Recruitment Gap

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Revisiting Distributive Leadership

• Pathway to
• School Transformation
• Leadership Supply
• Leadership Sustainability
• Systems/Consultant Leaders

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• Distributive leadership is a common denominator
  in schools that have sustained improvement over a
  five year period
• (Day, Sammons et.al 2008)

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Challenges

• Leadership as role
• Culture
• Structure
• Remuneration
• CPD Gap

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How

• Building Leadership Capacity
• - a key prerequisite for school effectiveness
  and improvement
• - principals a primary role
• Principal development
• Leader/Coach
• Web Support
• - think pieces
• - toolkits
• - materials

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Re-conceptualising the Policy-Implementation
Interface