CPD for Senior Leaders and preparation for Headship

The Crypt Teaching School Alliance Invites you to attend our FREE On-Line CPD Sessions Teaching Staff Continued Learning and Professional Development Training Program (On-line) – 3.30pm – 5.30pm 2020-21

Pathway 4: Senior Leadership Who should undertake this pathway?

Experienced middle leaders, or existing senior leaders, will find this pathway useful to their exploration of the nature of senior educational leadership.

Lead: Nick Dyer & Phil Stanlake This pathway will commence with all participants undertaking a 360 evaluation of their current strengths, their understanding of educational leadership, and of self as a benchmark through which they will be able to both focus their professional development pathways on, and as a means through which they can evaluate their own progress as a leader. This pathway will also require all participants to conduct a short in-school research project in an identified and agreed whole-school area, linked to whole-school priorities as set out in the annual School Improvement plan. Participant are also encouraged to undertake a school visit as part of this course.

Participants will be provided with an in-school mentor to help support them through the program and with their project.

Unit

Focus

1: What is senior leadership in an educational context?

This introductory session will focus on the characteristics and nature of senior leadership in schools and allow participants to develop their own understanding of their roles as senior leaders.

2: The different roles and responsibilities of senior leaders

3: Working with stakeholders

It will also consider the importance of educational context in developing one’s approach to senior leadership This session will investigate the varied roles and duties that senior leaders play in school and help enable participants to consider their own roles or their planned future role

This session will focus on the importance of working with all stakeholders in seeking to bring about school improvement and institutional change

Content

Date

Lead

1. The key characteristics of outstanding leaders 2. The nature of senior leadership 3. Understanding context 4. Leadership behaviour’s

12/11/20

Nick Dyer (Headmaster) Phil Stanlake: (Senior Deputy Headmaster)

1. Leading effective pedagogy and the curriculum 2. Efficient and effective deployment of staff and resources 3. Leading and managing staff 4. Strategic direction and school development 5. Managing Risk 1. Identify a range of local and national partners that can support school improvement.

2. Put in place systems, processes or structures which facilitate knowledge transfer and shared best practice within and beyond the school.

3. Identify the most effective partnerships for improving pupil progress.

21/1/21

Phil Stanlake: (Senior Deputy Headmaster) Jo Hitchings (Bursar)

18/3/21

Nick Dyer (Headmaster) Paulina Kirkpatrick (Director of Learning and Pedagogy)

Unit

Focus

4: Working with Trustees

Headteachers must develop strong relationships with their Board of Trustees, who offer challenge and support to the Head and their senior teams.

This session will focus on the role of school trustees and how to build and sustain a strong relationship with them This final session will allow participants to consider the nature of headship and where they feel they are on their leadership journey

5: Towards Headship

Content

Date

Lead

1. Who are trustees?

2. What constitutes an effective board?

3. What do trustees do: accountability and oversight; strategy; financial regularity; conduct; reputational management; working with other stakeholders

27/5/21

Richard James (Chair of Governors and NLG)

1. Developing a clear educational vision for their school and seeking support for that vision from all key stakeholders.

2. Accountability to Trustees and external agencies 3. Relationships across the School 4. Trust leadership – moving beyond one school 5. Understanding yourself and your own leadership and management styles.

17/6/21

Nick Dyer (Headmaster) Phil Stanlake: (Senior Deputy Headmaster)

Registration

To register for all 5 sessions, please click on the link below:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeUZktgiHeLIF80XLR8XpZyDWkSh-Os-MAHL9dhzvT-CN3Mg/viewform?usp=pp_url

Contacts: pkirkpatrick@crypt.gloucs.sch.uk, Paulina Kirkpatrick, Director of Teaching School sbailey@crypt.gloucs.sch.uk, Sharon Bailey, HR/TS Administrator