1. Opportunities for effective headteachers
Area Headteachers Meeting June 2009
Graham Lancaster
Primary Area Improvement Manager (Mid Essex)

2. Professional Partners
Confused?
Professional Partners
Mentors
NLEs
Executive Heads
LLEs
Advisory Heads

3. Advisory Headteachers
Recognition by OFSTED and LA as highly effective
Employed by Essex LA
Deployed on a temporary basis to cover vacancy or absence in school in difficulties
If available deployed in coaching capacity
2 x primary currently
Secondary recently appointed (Executive HT)

4. Executive Headteacher
Experienced and effective headteacher
Substantive headteacher in one school, seconded part time (or full time) to school with no headteacher and insufficient capacity to appoint acting headteacher
Head of a hard or soft federation
Can be applied to headteacher of Academies

5. Interim (acting) headteacher
Freelance Headteacher – employed directly by school, through agency or via LA to fill headteacher vacancy on a temporary basis.
Can be full time or part time

6. Mentors Existing Essex model
Headteacher providing support for colleague in first year of headship
Usually brokered by LA (SIA)

7. Professional Partners
NCSL scheme – Essex part of pilot
Training/accreditation – 2 days
Coaching and mentoring skills
4 x primary currently in Essex
Plans under way for introduction across Essex from September

8. Local leaders in education
Experienced serving headteacher – good/outstanding leadership
Experience of working with other schools to “support sustainable change”
Recruited and trained through NCSL
Learner centred consultancy and coaching model
In Essex funded for 15 days support per year
To work with new head in challenging circumstances or twice “satisfactory” leadership team
Approximately 20 primary, secondary and special LLEs in Essex

9. National Leaders of Education (NLEs)
Outstanding headteachers
Application through NCSL
Previous work in schools in difficulty
“Rigorous selection process”
Funded by LA
Provide additional leadership to schools in difficulty – emerging from an OFSTED category or in danger of going into one
300 primary by 2012 – currently 2 primary in Essex

10. Host school for NPQH Good/outstanding leadership and capacity
Identified by NCSL
Good/outstanding leadership and capacity
Able to provide learning environment for NPQH candidate
5-20 days internship

11. Associate Headteacher
Successful leadership team
Able to provide leadership placement for deputy head/aspiring headteacher
10 days placement – shared costs?
Significant research project – what are we doing now? What could we do better?
Similar to existing secondary internship model

12. Sustainable Leadership Group
Essex headteachers
Primary, Secondary and Special
Remit – research causes and possible solutions of present and projected headteacher shortage at a local level
Develop range of strategies for immediate action