The nature of Continuing Professional Development is changing in schools from the one day course chosen from a booklet or website to teachers engaging in their own research. This research may be undertaken as part of the National Professional Qualification for Senior/Middle Leader, as part of an extended leadership programme – for example, the SSAT Aspiring Senior Leaders Programme – or the more traditional Masters qualification. Continue reading
The term distributed leadership has now become a bit of a mantra in education. According to many of us, in leadership positions, we are distributing leadership all the time. I sometimes wonder how many people in our schools or organisations would agree. Benevolent dictatorship was a style I felt I mastered pretty easily and employed very well but distributing leadership has been quite a challenge. Continue reading
In September I launched our first CPD programme that had been deliberately written for teachers who were good, stuck at good and to be frank pretty fed up that they had not yet been able to take their desired step to outstanding. The professional development sessions that we have shared were, without doubt, one of my highlights of last term. Teaching and learning just fascinate me. Continue reading