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Building Early Leadership
GEOFF BARTON
Building Early Leadership
How it was How it is How it could be
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How it used to be
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Roy SamsonLawrie LowtonJohn Baumber
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Michael Fullan:
Teachers’ careers
= 1 x 25
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Teacher Training
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LEADERSHIP
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Step 1:
Create a leadership culture
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The need for leadership
Nowadays all the children behave like adults and all the adults behave like children
(Terry Waite)
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If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can’t, you’re right.
(Henry Ford)
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The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
(Frank Lloyd Wright)
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Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win.
(Bernadette Devlin)
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"I've missed over 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times I've been trusted to take the game-winning shot . . . and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."
(Michael Jordan)
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If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more … you are a leader.
(John Quincy Adams)
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Step 2:
Create a learning-enriched school
Rosenholtz
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Learning enriched schools“It is far easier to learn to teach, and to learn to teach
better, in some schools than in others”
Rosenholtz
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Learning enriched schools(Schools are places where students go to watch the teachers
working - JWB)
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Learning enriched schools
Research culture
Collaboration
Challenge hierarchies
Experiment & evaluate
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Step 3:
Talk pathways & expertise
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THEN:
Fixed roles
Individual
Autocratic
Control
Managed
NOW:
Flexible roles
Shared
Collaborative
Release
Managing
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Central place of the portfolio
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Novice
Advanced beginner
Competent
Proficient
Expert
Initial Teacher Training
QTS / Career Entry Profile
Induction
Aspiring subject leader
Subject leader qualification
Middle management
Whole-school coordination
Leadership Team
NPQH
HeadshipLPSH
Advanced skills
teacher
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Core role
Teaching expertise
Career management
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Step 4:
Demystify leadership
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Break up groups
Challenge age = experience assumption
Open up the leadership team
Publicise decision-making processes
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Step 5:
Grow your ownleaders
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In-house middle management training:
Key ingredients
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Step 6:
Look beyond your school
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Placements
Coaching
Case studies
Shared training opportunities
Visits
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Summary:
Leadership is central to good teachingCreate a culture of leadership
Don’t underestimate the quality of educational leadershipEvery teaching appointment is a potential
leadership appointmentIn-house leadership training, however rough
around the edges, is essential
Use a good model of learningLook beyond the school
Building Early Leadership
GEOFF BARTON
