Leadership in the 21st Century

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Leadership in the 21st Century

• Geoff Barton
• Head, King Edward VI School, Suffolk

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Today

• Talk about leadership
• Health check
• Debunk some myths
• Tame some big beasts
• Do something

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Provocations

• Vision is overstated
• Strategy is overstated
• Much futures thinking is hot air
• Britain isnt Sweden
• Learning styles may be a cul-de-sac
• Theres no cavalry

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Our schools
Us
Them
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The Anxiety of Influence
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Heroes Villains
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Heroes Villains

• Inside education
• Outside education

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Me
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Lawrie Lowton
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Steve Jobs
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What can we learn from Gordon Brown?
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School Improvement Health Check
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History boys pic
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50s, 60s, 70s
Social engineering via grammars and
comprehensives sink or swim mentality prevails
Postcode determines your life chances
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80s, 90s
National prescription, self-evaluation, LMS, spec
ialisation, some autonomy
Postcode determines your life chances
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1997-2009
National strategies, school improvement, heavy
accountability, investment, ECM,
leadership, academies
Postcode determines your life chances ?
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Beacon Schools
Training Schools
Coasting Schools
Super Heads
Consultant Heads
Executive Heads
Schools are becoming immune to school improvement
London Challenge
National challenge
National strategies
Leading Edge
Consultants
School improvement partners
Gaining Ground
Leading Light Schools
Trust Schools
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So now, its over to us
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TAMING THE BIG BEASTS
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Our students
Our staff
Implications
Ourselves
Our future leaders
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Theory
Practice
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TAMING THE BIG BEASTS
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Michael Barber

• Identify what works and implement
• Targets to monitor progress
• Consistency
• Best-performing systems
• Teacher training craft
• Teacher recruitment tough
• Teacher CPD collaborative
• Teachers focus on pedagogy
• SEN is SEN, but not as we know it

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Dylan Wiliam

• Architect of real AfL
• No hands up
• Better questions
• No marks
• Questions VAK, etc
• Teacher learning communities

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John West-Burnham

• Leadership a moral activity
• Schools account for 20 of a childs life-chances
  (versus personal and social influences)
• Focus on learning, not teaching
• The purpose of a caterpillar is not to be a
  better caterpillar
• Need to move from schooling to education
  transformation

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Leadership in the 21st Century

• Geoff Barton
• Head, King Edward VI School, Suffolk

Download this presentation at www.geoffbarton.co.u
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