Posted in Finance, Leadership, Management, Public Services, Scottish Executive on Dec 9th, 2007 No Comments »
The concordat agreed by the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities and the Scottish Government sets out how funding and outcome agreements will operate over the next three years.
The document is worth reading on a number of counts but it’s the section relating to efficiency savings that perhaps sets out the greatest challenge for education.
The text reads [...]
Posted in Culture change, Leadership, Learning and teaching, Management, Partnerships, Positive Behaviour, Positivity, School visits, Unconditional Positive Regard on Nov 27th, 2007 1 Comment »
I visited Sanderson’s Wynd Primary School in Tranent this morning.
In the course of a very enjoyable visit where I observed a number of classes and talked with Headteacher Fiona Waddell and some of her staff about how they create a purposeful learning environment. The school is not without its challenging pupils but what struck me was [...]
Posted in Children's Services, Conferences, Head Teachers, Ideas, Leadership on Nov 23rd, 2007 No Comments »
I’m just back from the Association of Directors of Education Scotland (ADES) annual conference which was held in Aviemore.
Fiona Hyslop, Cabinet Secretary with responsibility for Education and Lifelong Learning, was speaking and was stressing the importance of everyone involved in education working together, particularly in the new world of local outcome agreements.
As she was speaking [...]
Posted in Culture change, Leadership, Seven Sides on Nov 8th, 2007 3 Comments »
Over the next few months I intend to attempt to write a paper on the Seven Sides of Educational Leadership for possible publication in an academic journal.
The first part of the process is to come up with an abstract. Does the following: a) make any sense; b) provide an expectation about what the paper might be [...]
Posted in CPD, Ideas, Leadership, Partnerships on Nov 4th, 2007 3 Comments »
(John Muir and President Teddy Roosevelt above Yosemite Valley)
I’ve been researching some of John Muir’s writings to establish core values for our proposed John Muir Leadership Programme.
The quotations certainly provide direction and form to any development:
“Most people are on the world, not in it; have no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them, undiffused, separate, [...]
Posted in Culture change, Head Teachers, Ideas, Leadership, Learning and teaching on Nov 4th, 2007 2 Comments »
During the workshop sessions I recently led at the AHDS conference I gave a presentation on The Seven Sides of Education Leadership - I’ve experimented here with Jing to try to capture the concept in a five minute video - It proved to be something of challenge to compress an hour and half into five [...]
Posted in Culture change, Ideas, Leadership, Performance Indicators, Using data, honesty on Nov 2nd, 2007 7 Comments »
I spent today at the AHDS (Assocation of Headteachers and Deputes Scotland) Conference where I led a couple of workshops about the Seven Sides of Educational Leadership.
I’ll posts a series of short posts about elements of the conference and I’ll kick off with something which Jim Reid (one of the founders of Wolfson Electronics) said about [...]
Posted in Culture change, Leadership, Strategic on Oct 29th, 2007 3 Comments »
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I’ve been invited to lead two seminars on the Seven Sides of Educational Leadership at the Association of Headteachers and Deputes Scotland national conference this Friday. Here’s an outline of what I might be doing. Learning Intention – We are going to learn how to use the seven sides of educational leadership to help us [...]
Posted in Leadership, Research Papers on Oct 21st, 2007 1 Comment »
One of the things I’m going to try to keep up over the next few months is to regularly review educational research papers. Hopefully the reviews will build up into a useful resource to inform my own practice. The research papers will be derived from resource links on my blogroll (not really too comfortable with that word [...]
Posted in Leadership, Leadership Dilemmas, Uncategorized on Oct 7th, 2007 7 Comments »
Following on from the first Leadership Dilemma here’s the second on the series.
You are a newly appointed Headteacher/Principal (two months). The Depute Headteacher/Vice Principal applied for the post and was unsuccessful. You have gone out of your way to accommodate the Depute’s opinion and to be sensitive to her/his feelings.
You have been told by someone you trust that she/he is making [...]