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Renaissance:
an Advanced Leadership Programme
With Professor John West-Burnham
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Are there times when you feel you've reached your sell-by date? Do you feel be-leaguered? Renaissance is for you..... |
You are invited to join this challenging and ambitious programme that will focus on the personal development of education professionals who have been in post for a number of years and who are, by most criteria, highly successful in their role and context.
'The writers, artists and musicians working in Florence in the late fourteenth and early fifiteeth centuries had no idea that they were part of what is now known as the Renaissance. But through networks, shared knowledge and influence they created a climate that allowed a new creativity to flourish'.
West-Burnham J (2009) Rethinking Educational Leadership, Continuum p25
The programme is designed to meet a number of the needs of this group and to develop a cadre of highly effective and experienced leaders with the knowledge, skills and confidence to contribute to the school improvement and transformation agenda. The programme is designed to affirm and challenge, support, refresh and develop by sharing and building on strengths and successful experience.
It is expected that the group will b in a position to make a significant contribution to building capacity in schools and supporting improvement and transformational strategies. The culture of the programme will be collegial with an emphasis on the development of shared problem solving approaches and an understanding of the processes involved in leading successful innovation and change. The programme will focus on innovation and alternative approaches to teaching and learning and will be cheerfully heretical in its approach. There will be an explicit emphasis on communication skills specifically: influencing strategies, modelling, negotiation, brokering and networking.
This programme is designed to meet the following outcomes for participants:
- Developing the capacity to contribute to policy and system development
- Sustaining school improvement and raising standards
- Developing perspectives on national and international issues
- Updating and renewing their professional knowledge and understanding
- Reviewing and reflecting on their leadership
- Developing new networks and creating a community of practice
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Target Audience:
- Executive leaders: those with the responsibility for the leadership of more than one school.
- Leaders of networks, clusters and federations
- System leaders: those involved in the development of policy and strategy at community, Children's Services/LA, association, organisational and national level.
- Leaders of community initiatives/social entrepreneurs
- Experienced heads and leaders in educational settings
Or those aspiring to these roles |
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Programme Design:
The programme will focus on leadership in a context of rapid developments at system and institutional levels and will have a particular emphasis on the leadership of change, innovation and creativity. Specific topics will thus be approached from three perspectives: personal change, institutional change and system change. Sessions will seek to balance the practical issues of school leadership with broader moral and social issues. The programme will have an explicit focus on the development of appropriate learning strategies. The implementation of the programme will require a leadership development across the following themes in order to develop understanding, enhance knowledge and identify appropriate behaviours and strategies:
- The implications of Every Child Matters and The Children's Plan
- Learning centred leadership, standards and personalization;
- The leadership of networks, clusters and federations;
- Educational leadership in the community, relationships with parents;
- Leading professional learning;
- Leadership for change, innovation and creativity;
- New models of accountability;
- Working across public sector agencies
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Programme Culture:
The success of the programme will be the result of:
- high calibre participants
- acquisition and immersion in shared vocabulary and conceptual framework
- high quality facilitation
- high calibre keynotes
- time to reflect and grow personally and professionally
- collaborative learning
- challenge
- diversity of the cohort
- quality venues
- rich and sustained professional dialogue
- the international experience
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Programme Structure:
The year long programme consists of a core Systems Leadership module the start of which is a Residential. An outline is given below. The diagram also indicates some of the specialist modules and additional features:
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The System Leadership Module:
The systems leadership module would provide a generic overview of the issues involved in moving from the traditional institutional view of headship or educational leadership in other contexts. The module will explore the issues and implications of systems leadership, leadership beyond the school, sustainable leadership and outward looking leadership:
- The changing context of education, social trends, policy developments
- Outward looking leadership; leadership beyond the school, systems leadership
- Moral leadership, issues around equity, inclusion and social justice, leadership in a morally complext environment.
- Strategies to raise achievement, personalizing learning and learning centred leadership.
- Building capacity and sustainability in schools, professional development, shared leadership and mentoring.
- Leadership beyond the school, extended services, working in networks and clusters
- Leading change and innovation, understanding personal change
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Specialist Modules:
There will be within the programme a range of specialist modules and experiences including an international experience. These might include:
- Expert workshops with highly successful practitioners
- Seminars on key themes and current issues
- Visits to appropriate schools, Children's Services/LAs or to shadow in multi-agency settings
- A structured programme of inter-visitations/leadership enquiry visits
- An international experience
- Business practice
The Specialist Modules will provide an opportunity for the group to focus on specific areas of leadership. The precise nature of the module programme would be negogiated with the group. |
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Additional Features:
The regional groups will be an opportunity for members of different interest groups to come together to share ideas and perspectives. These small groups will be facilitated and will set their own agendas.
Other learning opportunities therefore could include:
- Action learning sets
- Peer mentoring and coaching
- Further activities from specialists/specialist groups
- Case studies/action research
- Access ot a dedicated e-learning site
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Programme Staffing:
Programme Director: Professor John West-Burnham
Programme Consultant: Professor Dame Pat Collarbone
SELT Consultants: Maggie Roger and Tom Whittingham
For further details please contact:
SELT Principal Programme Co-ordinator: Carly Shannon
Email: carly.shannon@selt.org.uk
Telephone: 01795 416812
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