Intro PPT

1. Welcome!
Stacey Bennett
Dave Heath
Chris Hatch
Lisa Carroll
Aimee Rosson
Emma Batzios
Marc Scarratt
Rebecca Nield
Nicky Slack
Sophie Tracey
Steve Champ
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Developing Leaders Course 2015-2016

2. The Purpose of the Day
To introduce you to the DL programme and allow you to:
• identify the leadership development priorities that you
want to address through this programme and in your
work based practice;
• get an overview of the programme;
• consider your learning journey as a leader.

3. Developing Leaders Course
Date Time Session
Friday 25th
September
Full Day Launch and
understanding
‘Self’
Thursday 12th
November
Full Day The Leadership
Challenge –
Narrowing the Gap
Saturday 16th
January 2016
9.30-2.30pm Managing and
Leading Teams
Effectively
Friday 12th
February
Full Day Leading Teaching
and Learning
Monday 11th July Full Day Presentation Day
(at Rudyard Lake)

4. Some personal reflections
from 2013-2014
Rob Heath and
Roxanne Hayes

5. Housekeeping…

6. Expectations
What are your expectations for today?

7. Leadership…

10. “We know through inspection what outstanding
provision looks like. In schools and colleges it’s ... strong
governance and leadership.
The National College continues to be a driving force in
improving leadership”

11. What does a leader do?
– Motivates people to develop new ideas
– Shapes
– Opens up horizons
– Behaves with emotional intelligence
– Does the right thing
– Concerned with ends and the future direction
(transformational)
– Empowers people
– Is dynamic

12. Complete the Kolb Inventory
Understanding your Learning Style can
explain how you deal with people, new
situations and problems.
More importantly understanding the
differences between yourself and
colleagues can give insight into how to
build professional relationships and lead a
team.

13. KOLB Learning style
Accommodating / Diverging / Assimilating / Converging

14. Kolb’s Learning Style Inventory

15. Where are you on the Leadership
washing line?
10 being the inspirational leader you discussed earlier…

16. Your Blog…
• Acts as a hub through which to reflect,
discuss and share.
• Provides access to your own blog, on which
you’ll record:
– Your reflections;
– Evidence towards your Leadership Challenge;
– Ideas and material for your final assessment.
• Provides the opportunity for you to
communicate with other people on the
course.

17. Self Reflection / Learning Log
• Using your self analysis against the Leadership
competencies and the Kolb Inventory – reflect
on your strengths and areas for development
as a leader.

18. Coaching…
• Sam Hargreaves
• Jade Zakrzewski
• Steff Parks
• Roxanne Hayes
• Rob Heath
• Verity Bester
• Chris Swift
• Dave Ackerley
• Gemma Deakin
• Heather Clarkson
• Chloe Ashton
• Karen Hunt
• Wendy Smith
• Sam Gamble
• Deb Farr and Claire Butler
• Emma Moss
• Tori Lowe
• Cathy Wright
• Lyndsay Ratcliffe
• Sarah Hopley
• Helen Bowden
• Jenny Smart
• Jenny Smart
• Anusha Simha
• Gavin Bowyer
• Richard Briggs

19. Assessment…

20. The Leadership Challenge
Getting back on track
• In groups of 4
• What can you remember about where everything
fits in this course?
• Jot your ideas onto the flip charts …..
• On Brown Paper, capture the Learning Journey of
the DL in your own style – linear journey,
timeline, visuals/pictures, circular diagram, flow
chart, table. Plan the journey as you see it so far –
(metaphoric images good! Starting point / end
point)

22. Session Outline
o To give you an overview of the main external data sources
available to you in school.
o To look specifically at your leadership challenge
o To give you time to reflect upon your own school context
and next steps.
Objectives

23. • In 3s - Before we start share some of
your experiences, both good and bad
when using data to track, monitor and
assess student progress.
It’s all about the Data

24. Historic data:
RAISEonline (RoL)
League tables
◦ Average Points Score (APS)
◦ Contextual Value Added (CVA)
Now it’s your turn …

25. Data Overview
Leadership
Challenge
Closing The Gap

26. Closing the Gap and your
Leadership Challenge
Discuss
• School Context
• Data
• The Gaps
• Your Challenge
• Question?

27. • What have you done today (seen, heard, discussed)
that you are going to develop?
• Are you going to discuss the leadership challenge
with your Faculty ……
Reflect & Review
Consider the session this afternoon, the data input,
leadership challenge and gap tasks. Where do you
go from here? Spend 10 minutes jotting down some
notes in your learning log

28. Rationale Data Communication
Timeline Leadership
development
Review

29. Getting on Track.
• Which is worse?
1. A school that is inspirationally led but badly
managed?
2. A school That is effficiently managed but
badly led?
3. A school where bureaucratic systems are
more important than personal relationships.
Think Feel Say Do Activity p36 TDA tool

30. Task – Read the 5 statements below
Which ones most strike a chord with you?
• I find some colleagues more approachable and
supportive than others
• The depth of deprivation both economically and morally
within pockets of our community presents significant
challenge within our school
• The constant political change agenda, target driven
culture and criticism of teachers is very dispiriting
• Some senior leaders at my school seem removed from
the day to day reality of the classroom
• There is considerable variance in learning outcomes
across different cohorts in my area

31. “Control the Controllables”
“You take control of that which you
can control” - Steven Covey

33. Potential for leadership impact and leverage
National issues
and trends
Student
characteristics
School leadership
and policies
Teacher quality
and classroom
practice
Low
High

34. Potential for leadership impact and leverage
Pairs discussion
• Q1 - What can be your impact on school leadership
and policies? – consider implementation, accountability, monitoring
• Q2 - How can you help change school policy and
decisions?
• Q3 – How can you influence student characteristics?

35. Marketplace activity
4 groups
• On a flipchart consider ‘what’ middle leaders can do
to improve teacher quality and classroom practice – 4
mins
• 1 remains as market stall holder, others go off as
'knowledge gathers‘ to another stall. Question, talk,
challenge stall holders you meet – 4 mins
• Repeat above with a different market stall holder – 4
mins
• Return to own stall – discuss and add ideas picked up –
4 mins
• Grand promenade – look at each others stalls – 2 mins
Handy Hint – p18 of
‘Closing the Gap’

36. Prioritisation Matrix
• Look at your marketplace activity
• Select 5 leadership activities you could
implement in your school context (amend
them if necessary) & write each on a post-
it note
• Think carefully and then place them on the
prioritisation matrix
• Which have you placed nearest to the top
right corner?

37. Your leadership
challenge?

38. YOUR TEAM

39. Diversity in Teams
• Consider a team you lead/are part of
• For each member of the team represent them
with a colour and/or symbol/animal on a post it
note (totally anonymous)
• Stick them on a side of A4 titled ‘My Team’ &
tac to wall

40. Daniel Goleman on leadership styles
1. Visionary, authoritative – focused on values and
future scenarios
2. Coaching – the most effective learning
relationship

41. Goleman’s six leadership styles
3. Affiliative – high quality relationships
4. Democratic – meaningful participation

42. Goleman’s six leadership styles
5. Target setting – outcomes oriented
6. Control – top-down command and control culture

43. Match the style to a phrase
• Visionary
• Coaching
• Affiliative
• Democratic
• Target setting
• Control
• “Do what I tell you”
• “Come with me”
• “People come first”
• “What do you think?”
• “Do as I do, now”
• “Try this”

44. Leadership styles
Consider the leadership style that you have been
given, what are the pros and cons of the style.
Visionary
Coaching
Affiliative
Democratic
Target setting
Control
Be prepared to share your views

45. Leadership in Your School
What are the prevailing leadership styles in your
school?
Do the leaders in your school always stick to the
same
styles?
How does the school
leadership context
impact on your
leadership?

46. In Summary…
An effective leader will recognise that
context matters and that context can
provide opportunities. All contexts
contain positive elements that can
support learning, teaching and
leadership
“Control the controllables”

47. Next steps....