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Education Leaders Forum - Enhancing Learning Culture, 21&22 August 2014 Christchurch Enhancing the learning culture and improving student outcomes by strengthening professional collaboration
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How to enhance the learning culture within an education community by strengthening
professional collaboration between communities.
Future-Focused Learning in Connected Communities (MOE, May 2014)
Building and sustaining improvement in the long term (NZSTA, June 2014)• The power of collective capacity (collaborative practice)
is that it enables ordinary people to do extraordinary things.(Fullan)
Performance beyond expectations (Hargreaves & Harris, 2011)
Performance beyond expectations (NCSL, 2011)
What characteristics make organisations of different types successful and sustainable, far beyond expectations?
How does sustainability of performance beyond expectations in leadership and change manifest itself in education compared with other sectors?
What are the implications for school and school leaders?
Performance beyond expectations (NCSL, 2011)Framework
F1: the fantastic dreamF2: the fearF3: the fightF4: fundamental futuresF5: firm foundationsF6: fortitudeF7: counter flowF8: fast and fair trackingF9: feasible growth
Performance beyond expectationsCulture and Collaboration
Leadership in performance beyond expectations keeps people together through active trust among a team whose
members work effectively together.F10: high fidelity – a deep commitment to what works best for studentsF11: fraternity – building and sustaining a sense of communityF12: flair, flow and flexibility – having a talented team, prepared to take risks and who are creatively valued, and there is interchangeable roles and responsibilities
Performance beyond expectationsCulture and Collaboration
F13: fallibility – an acceptance that mistakes are made and acknowledgedF14: friendly rivalry – combining competition with collaboration, recognising that their success partly rests on the success of others, and they have a sense of social justice in providing service to less fortunate schools.
Performance beyond expectationsCulture and Collaboration
F15: fusion leadership – investing in leadership and followership that raise and rally the performance of schools by lifting communities morally, emotionally and spiritually, through a combination and progression of leadership styles and strategies.
Performance beyond expectationsLeadership in Action
Collaborating with competitors and rivals but not so that some schools would prosper at the expense of others.
It is vital this collaborative ethic, with its decisive impact on students achievement, persists in the coming years even when resources become more scarce.
Innovation will necessarily entail mistakes.
Performance beyond expectationsLeadership challenges
Proper sense of urgency but not depleting resources and energy by change that is too fast of too many directions.
Intelligent and informed use of evidence but not driven by data.
Knowing how to run against the grain and ‘bowl uphill into the wind’
Not relying on one leader, in one moment, with one style. Exhibiting fusion leadership of many skills, styles and people
