Principal Professional
Development project
This project, as a part of the National Partnership on
Improving Teacher Quality, provides opportunities for
alliances of schools to drive student, school and systems
learning and innovation led by school leaders working
together to create new capacity through new skills, new
knowledge, and new practice.
Framing our collaboration
Purpose of the PPD project
• Create sustainable collaborative learning
alliances underpinned by system wide
communities of practices
• Build instructional leadership capacity for
school and systems improvement
• Lead improvement, innovation and change
• Develop the skills, capabilities, practices and
pathways for emerging principals and aspiring
leaders in NSW Public schools
The Call for Systems Leadership
It involves:
• Developing and leading successful educational
and organisational improvements
• Acting as a curriculum innovator who develops
and sustains best practice across the school
system
• Building capabilities as a change agent to lead
transformative change within the complex and
rapidly changing local and global contexts of the
21C learning environment
‘System leaders’ care about and work for the success of
other schools as well as their own. They measure their
success in terms of improving student learning and
increasing achievement, and strive to both raise the bar
and narrow the gap (s).
They are willing to shoulder system leadership roles in the
belief that in order to change the larger system, you have
to engage with it in a meaningful way.
Professor Emeritus, David Hopkins, author of
Every School A Great School
The Australian Professional Standard for Principals
Context: School, sector, community: socio-economic, geographic: and education
systems at local, regional, national and global levels
The standard for principals : The role in action
Leadership requirements
Professional
practices
Vision
and
values
Knowledge
and
understanding
Leading teaching and learning
Developing self and others
Leading improvement, innovation and change
Leading the management of the school
Engaging and working with the community
Personal
qualities,
social and
interpersonal
skills
High quality
learning,
teaching
and schooling
Successful
learners,
confident
creative
individuals
and active
informed
citizens*
Innovation to create a
Dynamic Learning System …
• LEARNING
ALLIANCES
• LEADERSHIP
DESIGN
Principal
collaborative
learning
communities
Building
instructional
leadership
capacity
 Australian Professional Standard for Principals 
Connect & Contribute
Leading futures
focused
innovation
• ORGANISATIONAL
INNOVATION
Principal
preparation
pathways
• SUCCESSION &
SUSTAINABILITY
Using the NP Principal Professional Development
to develop a Dynamic Learning System
What makes a
powerful
school system?
Culture of
Collaboration and
Connectedness
Evidence-Seeking
Knowledge
Generation
Organisational
Innovation and
Agility
What do leaders
need to ensure?
Principal
collaborative
learning
communities
Building
instructional
leadership
capacity
Leading
futures
focused
innovation
Principal
preparation
pathways
Engaged and
Accomplished
Community of
Learners
Evolving
Leadership
1. Learning Alliances
Creating sustainable collaborative learning
communities (alliances) and system wide
practices of “enabling leadership” that will
ensure the learning of leaders and contribute to
student, school and systems learning and
improvement.
2. Leadership Design
Designing quality professional learning and curriculum modules
to build instructional leadership capacity for school and systemwide improvement
Leadership
Mastery
Mentoring
Principal
Proficient
Principal
Core Leadership
Novice
Principal/
Aspiring
Executive
2. Leadership Design: Building capacity through
new knowledge, skills and practices
(after H Timperley)
Providing support
through research,
facilitators and
implementation
team.
Using national
frameworks and
tools including
AITSL 360 degree
Reflection tool.
What is
known?
What we
know?
(Expert
research)
(Practitioner
knowledge)
New Knowledge
What we can
create together
Knowledge
generation, sharing
and distribution of
innovative
educational practice
Recognition of prior
learning and
Professional
learning modules.
2. Leadership Design: Using the AITSL 360 Reflection Tool
The 360 Reflection Tool provides principals with the opportunity to:
• reflect on their leadership capacity
• monitor change in their leadership behaviour and actions
• learn more about their strengths
• better understand and explore opportunities for improvement
• gather critical feedback on their performance
• use feedback to reflect on their leadership and develop a leadership
action plan
• use feedback as one element of their professional appraisal
• plan professional learning and development opportunities for
themselves.
• Registration for the 360 Reflection Tool will be available in early
2013.
3. Organisational Innovation
Leading futures-focused organisational improvement,
innovation and change.
Past Focus
Improve
Supplement
Future Focus
Reinvent
Paradigm
Shift
3. Organisational Innovation: Embedding Change
Critical to the PPD
project is delivering
new ways of learning
and organisational
practice.
It is expected this
national partnership
will influence school
improvement and
systems improvement
“DISCIPLINED” INNOVATION - design new
learning & practice that is joint,
distributed, challenging, evaluative &
supported. (After Valerie Hannon)
4. Leadership Succession & Sustainability
Developing accreditation pathways to enhance the skills,
capabilities and practices of emerging principals and aspiring
leaders in schools.
• The processes, projects, practices used in the delivery of
the partnership in NSW DEC schools will support
leadership professional learning and school improvement
beyond the time frame of the project itself.
• The delivery will focus on making change with and for the
people who lead our schools to enable them to sustain
new ways of working and leading into the future.
We will be creating the
environment for others
to succeed…..
(Leon Cameron)
Over to you …
What is your idea for an innovate learning &
improvement project? What new capacity, skills,
knowledge and practice will it create?
Who will work with you on it? (Learning Alliance)
What will support success?
Idea for
innovation &
improvement
Project
report
Project management; learning, strategies
& actions
What can hinder success?
Learning
modules
NP
EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST ARE DUE BY
CLOSE OF BUSINESS, 22 MARCH 2013