The National College for School Leadership
Developing leadership and management skills for
the future.
A presentation for UNESCO
jonathan.dale@nationalcollege.org.uk
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Department for Education
The School Leadership Role
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School principals
Aspiring school principals
Middle leaders- heads of curriculum areas
or heads of year
School business managers
The senior leadership team
Key factors
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International trend is towards devolution
of school leadership and management
Recruitment, retention and succession
planning
Complexity- Skills and knowledge for the
21st Century
Professionalising teaching and school
leadership
The School Leadership Role
Changing and
evolving
Responsive
to its context
Complex,
accountable,
relentless
AND
rewarding
Data
and
evidence
based
Successful
school
leadership
today is
Learningcentred
More
collaborative
than ever
Focused on
leadership
capacity
Distributed
across
staff and
professional
disciplines
What we know about school leadership, NCSL, 2007
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The Importance of School
Leadership
Student results will not improve without good school
leadership. In England, we know from our inspection data that for
every 100 schools that have good leadership and management, 93
will have good standards of achievement. For every 100 schools
that do not have good leadership and management, only 1 will
have good standards of achievement. There is not a single example
of a school turning around its performance in the absence of good
leadership. It is almost impossible, in England's system at least, to
have good results without good leadership and management.
(DCSF, 2008)
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There is an emerging international
consensus on how to support school leadership
Finding
“One of the key revelations over the last ten years is that
school leadership is not just an HR issue – it is a strategic
issue.”
Singapore
Implication
Leadership focused on teaching, learning
and people is critical to the current and
future success of schools
“We are moving from pulling people out of schools to making
schools engines for building talent.”
New York
Spot talent early and move leadership
development into schools, but avoid
recycling low level practice
“Our whole purpose is delivering improvement – we’re not
interested in leadership development for its own sake.”
Victoria
Ensure leadership development is focussed
on school improvement
“Replacing an outstanding principal is the toughest and most
frightening experience of your life.”
Ontario
Support governing bodies to make the right
appointments and make the process fit for
purpose
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National College
The National College for School Leadership works to develop
and inspire great leaders of schools, early years settings and
children’s services so that they can make a positive difference
to children’s lives.
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National College Scope
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Leaders at all levels in all state maintained schools in England
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23,000 heads
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75,000 deputy heads and members of school leadership groups
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13,000 school business managers
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220,000 middle leaders
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3,500 Children Centres and early years leaders
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National College’s goals are:
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Inspiring new leaders: identifying, inspiring and
developing future leaders to sustain the supply of talent
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Great leadership development: giving all leaders the
expertise they need
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Empowering successful leaders: harnessing the
expertise of great leaders to drive improvement
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Shaping future leadership: changing how leaders work
to respond to new demands and influencing policy and
advising government
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Leadership Development
The National College offers leadership development activities for school leaders
at all stages of their career
At the moment this is broadly grouped as follows:
England- 500,000 teachers
• Middle and senior leaders
• Aspiring headteachers
• New headteachers / children centre leaders
• Experienced headteachers
• System leaders
-------------------------------------• School business managers
• Strategic leadership of ICT
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200,000 middle leaders
25,000 heads
Leadership Development - How
• Programmes based on leadership standards
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Shaping the future – creating a vision
Leading learning & teaching
Developing self and working with others
Managing the organisation
Securing accountability
Strengthening community
A blended delivery model
− Face-to-face learning
− Individual self study and online learning
− Collaborative reflection
− Real application or enquiry based work in school
− Masters level accreditation
England- 500,000 teachers
Building leadership quality:
the College’s provision
GCSE 5A*-C improvement of maintained secondary
schools engaged with core College programmes
2005-08
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6.6
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Engagment
Engaged with Engaged with Engaged with Engaged with
one core
2 core
3 core
4 or 5 core
programme
programmes programmes programmes
National Average
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Secondary
schools that
are more
engaged with
the College’s
leadership
development
programmes
have
consistently
achieved
faster rates of
improvement
in GCSE
results.
National College Programmes
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Certificate/Diploma in School Business Management
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Leading from the Middle
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Leadership Pathways
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Accelerate to Headship including Future Leaders
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National Professional Qualification for Headship (NPQH)
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Head Start support for first time appointed head teachers
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National Professional Qualification for Integrated Centre Leadership
(NPQICL)
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The Strategic Leadership of ICT
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National Professional Qualification
for Headship (NPQH)
Pre entry
Access resources to help gauge your readiness
Entry Stage
Online application with supporting statement
Two-day assessment and development event
Development Stage
Introductory day
Coaching
Placement
Materials
Peer learning
Work-based learning
Events
Online learning
Graduation Stage
Graduation board assessment
First headship
Continued support in Early Headship Provision
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The Strategic Leadership of ICT
The programme will:•Help create a vision for leading ICT in
schools
•Provide time to develop vision
•Help you evaluate developments to date
•Understand issues relating to ICT
•Challenge thinking about the future use of
technology
•Recognise long term and short term
solutions
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The programme will not:•
Give answers about how
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Teach ICT skills
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Help write schemes of work
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Give technical advice on solutions,
software, hardware or providers
All of the College’s
programmes are accessed
through a learning portal.
This is the pathway for
NPQH.
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The National College working internationally
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The National College is the first College anywhere in the world uniquely
dedicated to the professional development of school leaders.
We work in partnership with an increasing number of ministries of
education and other organisations to develop sustainable approaches to
school leadership development.
We understand the absolute importance of context.
Our work includes consultancy, designing leadership development
programmes and access to our resources through the National College
membership scheme
Our International Programme for School Principals is a 2 week residential
programme that can be delivered at the College in the UK or Internationally
Three final messages
• School leadership is moving up the
agenda around the world
• There is a global trend towards school
autonomy
• Hence, the increasingly high priority
given to leadership development
around the world
Contact: jonathan.dale@nationalcollege.org.uk
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