Growing Leadership Potential: theleadership profiles

Keren Caple and Julie Hyde Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership

Passion and Purpose – setting the learning agendaAustralian Council for Educational Leaders Conference - 3 October 2014

AITSL’s mission is to promote excellence in teacher and school leader practice for the benefit of

all young Australians

Australian Professional Standard for Principals

Vision and

values

Knowledge and

understanding

Personal qualities,

social and interpersonal

skills

Professionalpractices

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

High quality learning, teaching

and schooling

The standard for principals : The role in action

Leadership requirements

Successful learners, confident creative

individuals and active informed citizens*

Context: School, sector, community: socio-economic, geographic: and education

systems at local, regional, national and global levels

The Standard - impact

For individual leaders:

o provided a common language of leadership

o enabled better understanding of the role

o focused leaders own professional learning

For systems:o influenced current system initiativeso shaped professional learning frameworks o reflected in workforce policies and processes

360o Reflection Tool - development

o directly linked to the Standard

o supported by broad consultation

o launched 2013 – extensive uptake from school and system leaders

o resource for aspiring and current leaders

360o Reflection Tool

School leader - individual registration

o Assists in gaining an understanding of the components of leadership, current skills and individual capacity

o Provides a road map for

ongoing professional development

System leader – group registration

o Linked to school leader network or education system

o Enables group leaders to define learning needs

o Assists to focus future professional learning opportunities

360o Reflection Tool User Guide

User Guide includes:

o overview of the processo assistance to interpret

feedback o an action planner

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Leadership Strengths - Australian school leaders

Why have Profiles?

The Profiles will assist school leaders to build their leadership capacity by enabling them to:

o identify their current leadership practiceo reflect on the context of their current practice o plan their next stage of development

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How were the Profiles developed?

Nov 13 Profession - consultations shaped draft Profiles

o Expert Steering Groupo Project Reference Groupo Expert Practitioners Group

March 14 Uni Melb team - validated draft Profiles o survey gained 1600+ school leader responses

May 14 Profession - consulted on draft Profileso 300+ school/system leaderso 9 locations across Australia

Jun/Aug 14 Profiles finalised – reflecting feedback

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What are the Profiles?

The Profiles have been based on the Standard and are made up of sets of statements that progressively increase in complexity

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• Show Profiles diagram – standard view

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Progressive and increasing in complexity:

o Principals promote the benefits of professional learning to all staff and make sure that their willingness and efforts to learn and improve are recognised. The develop and implement an organisational vision which links all learning and development activities to better student outcomes ………

o Principals create challenging roles, responsibilities and opportunities for senior leaders that leverage and grow the talents of others. They build and sustain a coaching and mentoring culture… and have a system of peer review and feedback in place ………

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What are the Profiles?

…AND are able to be viewed through a number of lenses

o Professional Practices - of the Standardo Leadership Requirements - of the Standardo Leadership Emphasis - context of leadership

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Using the Profiles: Professional Practice lens

Focus on the Professional Practices of the Standardo Leading teaching and learningo Developing self and otherso Leading improvement, innovation and changeo Leading the management of the schoolo Engaging and working with the community

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• Show Profiles diagram – standard view

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Using the Profiles: Leadership Requirements lens

Focus on the Leadership Requirements of the Standard

o Vision and valueso Knowledge and understandingo Personal qualities, social and interpersonal skills

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Using the Profiles: Leadership Emphasis lens

Focus determined by time, place and stage of development

o Operationalo Relationalo Strategico Systemic

With the person next to you:o Read and consider your school

leader persona.

o What is the current issues or concern for them? What Professional Practice is their major focus?

o What resources linked to the Profiles would support their next leadership actions?

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o 1,100+ leadership resources

o full electronic format

o local and international journals

o reports and articles

o topical reading lists

o websites/multimedia

o Monthly eNews links

http://clearinghouse.aitsl.edu.au/

School Leadership Clearinghouse

(soon to be renamed School Leadership e-Collection)

Teaching and learning tools and resources

o My Standards app

o Classroom Practice Continuum

Teaching and learning tools and resources

Teacher Toolkit

o Self-Assessment Tool

o Illustrations of Practice

o Teacher Toolkit

Learning Frontiers

• Leadership

• Pedagogy

• Assessment

• Technology

• Community/parent partnerships

• Learner agency

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