1. Leading Educational Transformation: Future Challenges & POSSIBILITIES Professor Alma Harris Director, Institute of Educational Leadership

2. High Performing Education Systems
The world’s centre of high performance in school education is now Asia. Four of the five top- performing systems are in Asia. Hong Kong, Shanghai, South Korea and Singapore

3. How do we ensure success for all students in all settings?…

4. TWO Most Powerful Levers
Leadership Quality Teacher Quality

5. IMPROVING School performance
Leadership is second only to the influence of teaching and learning on student outcomes (Leithwood, Harris and Hopkins, 2008)

6. School /SYSTEM Improvement
Does not occur without some change in leadership or leadership practice

7. Leadership: What we Know
Leadership is the key lever of high organisational performance.
Successful organisations have wisely and widely distributed leadership.
Effective leaders grow and manage other leadership talent

8. FIVE DIMENSIONS OF EFFECTIVE SCHOOL LEADERSHIP
(Robinson, 2008)

9. What type of school leadership transforms organisational performance and outcomes?

10. Past and present leadership practice

11. Successful heads distribute leadership progressively
Successful heads use the same basic leadership practices, but there is no single model for achieving success
(Source: Leithwood, Harris and Hopkins (2008)
Successful heads distribute leadership progressively

12. RESEARCH EVIDENCE: Distributed LEADERSHIP

13. Distributed Leadership Matters (Harris, 2013)
Distributed leadership is primarily concerned with leadership practice. Rather than a preoccupation with those ‘who lead’ it addresses what and who leadership is for?

14. Distributed Leadership MATTERS (Harris, 2013)
Leadership shifts according to need
Collaborative teams formed for specific purposes
Team membership changes according to task, roles and expertise

15. High Performing SCHOOLS & EDUCATION Systems
One of the hallmarks of educational excellence and success is the nature and extent of professional collaboration.
Focused and systematic professional collaboration can be a powerful influence upon changing and improving teaching and learning.

16. High Performance Leadership

17. Institute of Educational Leadership
An International Hub for Excellence in Leadership
Academic Icons and Distinguished Associates
New Masters in Educational Leadership

18. Asia Leadership Research Project ‘Leading Educational Transformation in Asia’
Alma Harris, Michelle Jones, Esther Daniel, David Reynolds and Christopher Chapman Published by Springer in their series: Education in Asia Pacific Region: Issues Concerns and Prospects

19. Asia Leadership Summit Leadership in 2050 January 8 – 10 2014 Who challenges your thinking?

20. YOGYAKARTA, INDONESIA 2-7 JANUARY 2014 Royal Ambarrukmo, and Yogyakarta State University Redefining Education, Learning, and Teaching in the 21st Century: The Past, Present and Future of Sustainable School Improvement