Creativity and School leadership. Definition elements and key issues ENTER STUDY DAYS, PLOVDIV Introduction to parallel session N°3 M.O.Nouvelot, AgroSup, Dijon

CREATIVITY WITHIN AN ORGANISATION Imagination Finding an original solution Building a new disposal Not an aim in itself Capacity in each of us Possibility to innovate anywhere Expression and application of a new idea

Leadership = animation = pass = steering of interactions systems CooperationIdentification, allocation, coordination, use of resources Coherent guidelines Recommandations OCDE, UE « School effectiveness » Accountability. Self evaluation Accepts / challenges / synthesizes Existing way of doing Involvement Empowerment Management of change School strategic and development plan Development of skills and competences

Headteacher ‘ s role is evolving towards a more systemic approach of the job, in order to empower the school and to change it into a learning organisation, monitoring more than running « Monitoring by sense making » The « distributed leadership » is not a practice clearly defined. Management staff are not enough trained for and this activity is not enough supported and and estimated, (OCDE, Pour 2008).

CreativityOrganisation Leadership Several styles of creativity - « adapter » within the school system - « innovator » prêt à s’écarter de la norme Need to combine the both profile in a steering group

Several approaches of what is an organisation, each valid but incompatibles within them (Maggi) - a predetermined system, a « box ». Individuals are power less - a system built by interactions between individuals - a process of actions and decisions Tension between « creativity » and « control » in a bureaucratic organisation Need to find a balance between risking and controlling. Idem between the right side of human brain (empathy) and the left side ( logic, rationality). Need to make the both working! THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION