The Lionheart Bespoke Leadership Training Pathway will provide you with a wide range of opportunities to explore and widen your skillset, build your knowledge and understanding and develop leadership expertise to improve outcomes for the teachers and pupils you work with. Hearing from experts, reading educational research, managing whole school change and shadowing experienced colleagues you will commit to an approach that will support you to be truly confident for your next step into leadership.
Who
can join the Bespoke
Leadership Training
Pathway?
The pathway is intended for colleagues within Lionheart who have substantial impact/experience at middle leadership and are keen to progress into, or within, senior leadership in education.
How and when can I apply?
The pathway will run annually, from the start of the academic year, with some preparation to establish individual needs taking place the term prior. Applications to join the pathway will open during each summer term. Expressions of interest can be made via Line Managers, Heads of School or HR. Lionheart may also identify and invite members of staff who have applied for senior leader roles without success.
The Pathway
2024-2025
Timeline What How
Summer 2024
Establishing your needs
Cohort 1: Autumn 24
Cohort 2: Spring 25
Throughout 2024-2025
Throughout 2024-2025
Vision setting
Summer 2025
Bringing the role to life
Throughout 2024-2025
Implementing change project
Lionheart self-audit electronic tool linked to Headteacher standards. Insights from your line manager to help shape goals.
Lionheart Leadership Conference evenings with key note speakers linked to the importance of vision, culture and ethos.
Autumn date: September 2024 Spring date: March 2025
Linked to your goals and areas for development we will commit to 3-5 days for shadowing.
Developing a whole school strategy linked to school priorities, demonstrating impact through successful implementation. Leadership coaching monthly will support you to explore, prepare, deliver and sustain a new approach benefiting your school community.
Lionheart leaders showcase Presentation evenings planned to celebrate success and share best practice.
Research informed approach
Throughout 2024-2025
Leadership twilight workshops
A choice of recommended reading provided to all delegates
A wide range of expert led, research informed workshops presented online throughout the year.
Lionheart Leadership Twilight Workshops
All delegates will commit to specific sessions linked to their training needs and will opt into at least 6 throughout the course of the academic year.
Workshops will run on Wednesday afternoons, 4-5pm
Focus Description
Evidence led implementation
Curriculum leadership
Community engagement
School funding and financial management
The Power of Diversity and Representation
Building culture and modelling
Working in partnership and effective transition
This session will explore the complex factors linked to effective implementation approaches. We will consider an evidence led approach that links to the behaviours and processes needed for effective implementation.
Here we will explore the importance of curriculum leadership for senior leaders and the relationship between intent, implementation and impact whilst exploring the vital role senior leaders hold in supporting and challenging middle leaders as subject experts.
Why is good community engagement important? How can we support all stakeholders to understand, support and promote the aims of the educational institution? How do we establish and embed respectful dialogue for all involved to benefit and shape the future.
A session to build knowledge and understanding of key statutory responsibilities and the importance of efficient and effective financial management.
When stakeholder see themselves represented in organisations a unique level of psychological safety and familiarity is established, leading to increased morale, productivity and innovation. This session explores this in the educational landscape.
Purposefully building a positive school culture that is inclusive and equitable is essential to ensure that all learners can access learning and fulfil their potential in an environment where they are supported and valued. The ethos and culture of a school enables them to achieve inclusive education
Transition for pupils- at every level- and their families are significant changes. We will explore how far we can maximise on the opportunities for a seamless transition for all.
Evidence led staff development
The educational landscape is busy and in recent years the research surrounding effective CPD has been analysed. This session will present the up to date research and our best bets in supporting staff development.
Focus
Creating a culture of safeguarding
Description
A session to reinforce our first and last responsibility and exploring how a culture of safeguarding can be established and embedded across provision taking into account context and all
Behaviour and Ethos
Effective middle leadership management
Embedding Cognitive and Metacognitive Practice
This session will examine how establishing, developing an embedding whole school ethos must be approached through explicit modelling and reinforcement.
Exploring the complex role of an outstanding middle leader and analysing how best senior managers support and challenge them.
Understanding how we learn is crucial for educators. This session looks at the science behind learning and examines how we can best enable expertise to flourish.
Improving Whole School Attendance
Understanding EIF and judgements
High quality teaching for all: removing barriers for SEN learners
Principles of Timetabling
Leadership of Reading
Talent Spotting recruitment and retention
Working with Governors
Change management
Assessment and Feedback
Examining all research and up to date thinking through to considering a whole school approach to implementation, this session tackles the challenges of school attendance.
This session will unpack the EIF framework and provide exemplification of the current areas of judgement.
This session will challenge delegates to shift from a deficit approach to SEND learners, and explore how universal high quality provision will remove barriers and enhance educational opportunity for all.
Exploring principles of whole school timetabling and the importance of prioritisation linked to context and the planned curriculum.
This session will outline the fundamental importance of reading and its place in education and challenge leaders to prioritise a joined up approach.
In the backdrop of a challenging landscape, this session will explore the research linked to employee motivation and engagement and will examine important school approaches to support continued investment in workforces.
This session will help you to understand the important monitoring role governors undertake in the strategic direction of your school and how close partnership work should enhance provision.
This session will look at the theory and research behind effective change management exploring the opportunities and costs and offer practical models for change that can be implemented in school settings.
A session to unpack the importance of assessment and feedback in education and the planned curriculum, considering a review of the evidence.
Focus Description
Emotional Literacy
Trauma informed practice
Enhancing social mobility
Alternative Provision
SEN Code of Practice: 4 Broad Areas of Need and removing barriers
Emotional literacy is made up of the ability to understand your emotions, the ability to listen to others and empathise with their emotions, and the ability to express emotions productively. This session explores the research and the potential for this approach in education.
Trauma-informed practice is an approach to health and care interventions which is grounded in the understanding that trauma exposure can impact an individual’s neurological, biological, psychological and social development. This session explores this and provides practical strategies to develop in school.
Education is a driver for social mobility. Social mobility brings many benefits. It helps to build fairer and more inclusive communities and combats social exclusion. It promotes better employment, economic productivity, access to higher education and skills for lifelong learning.
This session will explore the place of alternative provision within the landscape of the education system and outline the importance of a robust approach for some of the most vulnerable learners.
An exploration of the statutory guidance and the importance for school leaders to understand the 4 broad areas of need and the need to drive forward improvements with teaching and learning to remove barriers.
Personal Development and our responsibilities
Leading Academy Trusts
Lionheart processes, systems and approach
HR processes
Managing processes with Challenging Situations: Exclusion policy
Assessment
Exploring the statutory requirements and our responsibilities to our students to enable a full holistic provision.
This session will explore the role of the executive team, board of trustees, compliance and risk management in multi academy trusts.
A session for all delegates to understand the network of processes and systems that support efficient work across Lionheart Education Trust.
An exploration of a range of HR processes useful to schools to support effective resource management and get the best from the workforce.
This session will examine the legal frameworks surrounding challenging situations and explore the principles and our duties to all young people facing challenging situations.
Leadership project submitted for assessment to trust executive leadership at the end of the cohort. (Spring or Summer 2025)
