Professional learning series
LEADERSHIP INNOVATION NZ LTD runs a number of professional learning series each year. These series will focus on middle and senior leadership. (These days are not consecutive.)
Developing Middle Leadership in Secondary Schools: Coping with Chaos!
This programme is specifically designed for secondary school Deans, HoDs, Heads of Faculty and aspirant leaders. It consists of four full-day linked sessions spread over two terms.
Middle leaders in the secondary sector frequently have extensive workloads as they act as leaders, administrators and managers. In addition, they are a conduit between the senior leadership team and classroom-based staff. This organisational location brings its own set of challenges.
This series includes a consideration of current research and practice, and the realities facing HoDs and Faculty Heads. It analyses some of the issues facing middle leaders, including what it means to lead from the middle, and what it means to initiate, lead and manage change processes.
Day 1: Coping with current realities and multiple tasks
Day 2: Focusing on middle leadership and what it means to lead: Coping with the chaos
Day 3: Managing and leading change: Appraising for professional growth
Day 4: Communicating with the Senior Leadership Team: Becoming a leader in your own right
Facilitators: Jeremy Kedian and Invited Practitioners
Register
Dates to be announced. If you are interested in this series please email Jeremy Kedian on jeremy@leadershipinnovationnz.co.nz
Highly effective leadership in primary schools
This series is intended for serving primary Principals and Deputy Principals. It addresses current leadership theory and practice, innovations in leadership practice, innovative leadership and management, the practical implications of sharing leadership, and an opportunity to engage with fellow participants in a networking context.
Dates will be notified to participants at registration
Programme
Day one of this series explores notions of leadership and leading schools of the 21st-century. The day is an opportunity to create an informed platform of leadership theory based on current literature.
Day two focuses on leading effective change in schools and considers the very nature of change itself. This is based on the work by Charles Handy and his development of ‘Second Curve Thinking’ in which he proposes that we need to reimagine what schools might look like in 10 years time. The focus links different notions of change and the leadership of change first considered on day one.
Day three focuses on notions of effectiveness, effective leadership, transformational and transformative change, and how leaders – school principals and their deputies – can develop change strategies that are inclusive and just.
Innovative learning environments
This three-day series supports principals and other school leaders who wish to move from a traditional factory model to an innovative learning environment. It focuses on the concept of an innovative learning environment, the curriculum implications, appropriate assessment methods, staff professional learning activities, assisting the school community to understand a new form, and other issues associated with the change leadership process.
Dates: Thursdays 16 March, 1 June and 22 June.
Costs: $540 per person for the series + GST.
There is a minimum number of participants for each series.
Programme
Day one of the programme is devoted entirely to creating a shared conceptual understanding of an innovative, modern or flexible learning environment. Many schools begin the process of moving towards an innovative learning environment by planning the curriculum and changes to the physical environment. While there is a need for this it is imperative that leaders understand that innovative learning environments are first and foremost a concept. The day draws on current literature in the field and creates a platform for the far more practical sessions to follow.
Day two focuses on staff professional learning, leading change from the factory model to the innovative learning model, probable changes in teachers’ professional practice, reviewing the learning needs of students, considering possible changes to buildings and whether they are really necessary, probable curriculum changes and different ways of assessing students’ learning.
Day three focuses on the changing leadership needs. It is clear from experiences in New Zealand and other countries that innovative learning environments require a substantial degree of collaborative leadership. During the day the group explores the notions of collaboration, collaborative leadership, teacher collaboration, collaborative learning and other central issues in the development of innovative learning environments.
