1 Leadership for Learning practice from macro perspective Sr Agnes Law fdcc

2 Observations Learning leaders learning staff improving school (Robinson 2008) Leadership & school improvement mutually responsive – organic (Hallinger 2010) Different leadership style adopted in different stages of school improvement (Day et al., 2010) Collaborative (Murphy 1996) & distributed leadership (Fullan 2001) school improvement  School capacity building human capital: high expectations of teachers, consistent quality, strong professional ethic & excellent professional development focused on classroom practice (OECD)

3 Learning leaders - learning staff FOR MORE INFO... Robinson et al, 2008, Leadership for Learning: Results from a Meta-analysis p. 657 Leadership DimensionEffect Establishing goals & expectationsES = 0.42 Strategic ResourcingES = 0.31 Planning, coordinating & evaluating teaching and curriculum ES = 0.42 Promoting and taking part in teacher professional learning, formal & informal ES = 0.84 Ensuring an orderly & supportive environmentES = 0.27

4 Leadership School Improvement? Important catalyst –Leadership as supporting factor for school improvement Contextual impact –School culture or improvement capacity always exercises an even stronger influence on leadership Implication –Systemic change in school needed Hallinger, Mar 2010, HKIEd, Lessons from Research on Leadership for Learning: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

5 Stages of School Development Starting with the turn around phase FOR MORE INFO... Hallinger, Mar 2010, HKIEd, Lessons from Research on Leadership for Learning: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow Taking Ownership Developing Creativity Everyone a Leader Phase 2 Phase 3 Phase 4

6 Towards Distributed Leadership? achievement of a long process of staff professional development planning for individual & whole school professional development – short & long term with implementation & constant evaluation (PIE) and explicit high level of expectation leadership at all levels – key lever for academic improvement & for other aspects including voices of teachers & students

7 Staff Professional Development to reduce gap between highest & lowest achievers (Ss & Ts) to ensure structure and system to support learning & teaching to ensure organisational culture of learning to seek external input to further effect improvement to groom new forms of leadership to accentuate collaboration in learning and distribution of power

8 Organising Professional Development FOR MORE INFO... Refer to handout ‘Organising Professional Development’ & ‘Professional Life Phases of Educators’ ‘Direct’ teaching & practicum Learning in school Learning out of school  Motivation for professional development?

9 Professional Life Phases of Educators 0-3 yrs Commitment: support & challenge 4-7 yrs Identity & efficacy in the classroom 8-15 yrs Managing changes: growth tensions Work life tensions: career advancement? Challenges to sustain motivation 31+ Ability to cope with change, looking to retirement FOR MORE INFO... Day (2006), Notes of seminar on Leadership & the Impact of Continuing Professional Development of Teachers, Teacher & Leadership Research Centre, University of Nottingham

10 Our Practice in SHCC 3 layers of professional learning –Learning according to individual choice/needs, time & interest, respecting learner diversity (e.g. courses by EdB, on- line courses from ASCD) –Departmental staff development day/sessions –Whole school staff development days/sessions

11 Our Practice Leadership in professional learning –Staff Development Team (with the principal) for whole school PD planning –Teachers delivering professional development sessions to colleagues or other schools –Demo lessons to other colleagues &/or teachers of other schools –Peer lesson observation for development

12 Our Practice Long & short term planning –5 year whole school staff professional development plan –Individual professional development planning for future 1 or 2 years, reviewed annually in May

13 Collaborative Leadership? Person In CDimension of School Development PrincipalStaff Professional Development on L & T, School Culture, Religious Formation - Ts & Ss Deputy PrincipalAcademic Dev (curr, KLA), Timetabling, Finance, Building, F & E, Resources Vice PrincipalOLE, CCA, ECA, Student Quality – S leaders, awards & scholarship, extended learning, Ts & Ss international conference, financial assistance to Ss Assistant PrincipalLife Education – homeroom period, counseling, discipline, career & further studies, civic & media ed, sex ed, health edu, student needs, learning support School Policy & Improvement Committee 4 Ps, 5 elected staff (2 senior, 2 basic rank, 1 new blood within 3 yrs in sch.,), 2 appointed staff, 4 elected Ss rep.

14 Sacred Heart Canossian College? … –We struggle in learning how to learn and teach like you –We practise, fail & achieve at times like you –We have high quality & nasty stakeholders like you and We care to learn & improve even if the ‘ESR Team’ or others give a smallest remark… We learn rigorously with high energy like… no one else

15 Leadership for Learning together with all staff in SHCC Thank You! 9 & 11 June 2010