Improving School Leadership:
Were to go from here
Beatriz Pont
Education and Training Policy Division
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Brussels, VLOR
2nd Workshop of Participating Countries
1-2 February 2007
In summary…
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The Background Reports
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The comparative report
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Other
The background reports
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Catalyst for change at national level and for international
comparison.
March 30th, 2007, Friday: Final/almost final versions: 11 ready,
still waiting for other 11.
Edit and revise them to:
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Refine the final section to provide assessment of key
challenges, critical analysis; executive summary
We might contact you individually for additional information;
Ensure that the final version is OK for public distribution
http://www.oecd.org/edu/schoolleadership
Inform us on the impact it is having: national seminars,
workshops, influence in policy making and legislation, in national
level discussions: For our Newsletter updates.
The comparative report: issues
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Challenges for school leadership: external factors,
dealing with complexity within and from outside the
system: social, economic and policy context;
Governance traditions/structures and impact on school
leadership. No common concept of leadership or practice
Leadership: is there a new ‘paradigm’ or ‘beast’?
– What is the nature of effective leadership?
– Is the systemic approach at the heart of it? Is distributed
leadership part of it?
– What are the characteristics required?
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The comparative report: issues
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Leadership for learning and achievement: at the heart of
leadership
– Professionalism
– Accountability (reciprocity)
– Skills of successful principals
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The core: Developing (quality/sustainable) school
leadership
– Different models of sustainable investment/leadership
– initial training programmes
– in-service training, (support for the profession).
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And supporting school leadership:
– Making it an attractive career
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– Ensuring recruitment,
– Employment conditions,
The comparative report
The process: Highly consultative.
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Develop outline and send for feedback: End of march 2007 by email.
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June seminar to discuss annotated outline with small group???
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Discuss draft at Ireland Oct/November 2007 Workshop.
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Present findings to the OECD Education Committee for comments.
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Discuss final report in Final Conference March/April 2008.
Dissemination – no budget!!!!
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Final Comparative Report distribution
Develop short stand alone papers on assessment and
recommendations for dissemination
Strongly encourage organisation of national dissemination events:
We can help you with OECD presence and press dissemination.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS
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