The document discusses excellence in educational leadership at an ADHS conference workshop. It covers transformational grids to improve leadership, reflecting on leadership examples, and turning school aims into action by having stakeholders agree on how their activities help achieve school goals. It also discusses having high expectations for all, celebratory achievement and challenging underachievement, distributive leadership as a culture not just roles, and building leadership capacity through strategies like requiring proposed problems to also include solutions.
2. Workshop activities Transformational grids: improving leadership Journey to Excellence leadership clips Reflecting on 2 recent examples Learning together resource Group discussion and individual next steps
3. Turning the school aims into action In one school the head teacher asked everyone to agree which school aim they are helping to achieve when they meet together as groups or teams of pupils, parents and staff. This enabled all stakeholders to understand how their daily choices and activities were helping to realise the school’s vision.
4. High expectations for all Celebrating achievement, challenging underachievement Kersland School Whitelees Primary School
5. Distributive leadership A culture not just a role Agreeing outcomes, focus and timeline Involving staff, young people and parents
6. The Challenge for Parent Councils…. Not just supporting the school…. but helping to continually improve it
7. Building leadership capacity – discussion of interesting strategies Policy for parents, pupils and staff: Before you present a problem or difficulty, you must have thought of 2 possible solutions
