But purpose alone can’t be realised without systems.
Leadership expertise is about having a well connected mental model of school leadership that enables us to design systems that enable action at scale. 11/11
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School and MAT leaders: What’s your school improvement model?
How do you go about improving your school?
Here’s a model and a thread explaining it…
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First some assumptions about school leadership.
▪️Schools are complex
▪️Improvement is more about problem solving than applying a ‘formula’
▪️Problem solving requires expertise
▪️(Groups of) schools therefore need to be good at building and sharing knowledge
2/11
That last point is critical not just for the chain of reasoning above but because there can be no improvement to children’s outcomes without the individual adults, teams and the organisation as a whole learning more, better and faster.
Great session with @LouiseStoll@CEL_IOE on educational setting as learning organisations.
▪️The concept of school leaders and teachers as knowledge workers who need to find / create knowledge
▪️Schools need to learn fast because of complexity
Pulling together some thoughts on professional development…
1️⃣ What do teachers need to get better at?
2️⃣ What conditions are necessary for teachers to learn?
3️⃣ What mechanisms and forms can we use?
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1️⃣ What do teachers need to get better at?
While we often describe the actions that we want teachers to do (better), in some cases it may be an underlying belief that needs to shift because actions are sustained by beliefs.