1. School Leadership in India Mapping Challenges but with a silver lining
Rashmi Diwan
NUEPA

2. What is leadership in the most simplistic terms?

3. Do you consider yourself a leader in your school and why?

4. How one looks at Leadership?

5. The Current Reality
Leadership - an important factors influencing school effectiveness – yet little attention paid so far to develop effective school leaders
School leaders senior teachers - ageing; newly appointed or prospective leaders with little orientation:
Range of schools with high PTR to feeble PTR, multigrade teaching , multiage situations to big issues and issues linked to big schools – makes school leaders’ role very challenging
Functionaries supporting the school have an ‘inspection’ mindset rather than a supporting approach - Tend to be reactive instead of proactive
Ownership? The element that the school belongs to me missing
Different sets of administrators in a State- cycle of accountability in question
Political interference in the school affairs; the head teachers and even other education functionaries act helpless - with no accountability

6. SCHOOLS -MUST IMPROVE-
Immediate Concerns
SCHOOLS -MUST IMPROVE-
MUST TRANSFORM
Shift in the role of School Heads: from principalship to a broader role of leadership
Leadership Development : SPOTLIGHT FOR SCHOOL TRANSFORMATION AND QUALITY IMPROVEMENT
To pursue transformative agenda

7. National University for Educational Planning and Administration National Centre for School Leadership

8. Two Pronged Approach
LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT NEW, CURRENT, ASPIRING SCHOOL HEADS TO DEVELOP SCHOOLS OF TODAY
LEADERSHIP SUCCESSION FUTURE LEADERS TO GOVERN NEXT GENERATION SCHOOLS

9. VISION AND MISSION
Vision: To develop new generation leaders to transform schools so that every child learns and every school excels
Mission: To enhance leadership capability at school level for institution building to deliver quality education

10. COMMITMENT TRANSFORMING SCHOOLS
Build leadership capacities for change and improvement
through
LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT
Continuous Engagement
New, current, aspiring school heads
team of teachers
system level officials
professional learning communities
Community (SMCs, SDMCs, and other leaders)

11. Operational Framework
Collective learning Experience
NCSL
National Level
SYNERGY
National Advisory Group, National Resource Group, Mentors
State Nodal Institution
SRG, Partner Institutions, State Leadership Academies, Critical Mass of Experts as extended arms of Leadership Academies 11

12. THE FOUR STRANDS
Capacity Building
Networking and Institution Building
Research and Development
Curriculum and material development
Delivery of programme through a critical mass (teams of SRG and facilitators) at the State/UT level
Curriculum Framework and Handbook for SRG- Translated and Contextualized
Networking with State
Level Institutions, NGOs,
Expert, Universities
National and
International
Organizations
Establishing Regional
Leadership Academies
Drawing learning
and facilitating
policy dialogue on
School Leadership

13. CURRICULUM FRAMEWORK
6.LEADING PARTNERSHIPS
7.LEADING SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION
Has Special Focus areas mainly on the learner, learning and teaching and all actions by the school
2.DEVELOPING SELF 1
PERSPECTIVE ON SCHOOL LEADERSHIP
5.LEADING INNOVATIONS
3.TRANSFORMING TEACHING LEARNING PROCESS
4.BUILDING AND LEADING TEAMS

14. NCSL- Perspective Leadership begins with changing self
Leading to change in the school- nurturing climate conducive for improving core functions.
Contextual leadership by sharing, collaboration ensuring equity and inclusion across schools.
Success of the school system

15. SELF AND SCHOOL IN THE FIRST INSTANCE Is it that simple?

16. 1 year Engagement to build School Head’s capacity
Reflective, Preparatory exercise that the School Heads bring before attending the workshop
Pre-capacity building
10 day residential capacity building programmes
2 Review-Feedback workshops (4th & 8th month)
1 Retreat (12th month)
Practicum to be carried out in the school
Capacity building workshops
Onsite support from block, cluster level by SRG
Peer Visits
Developing Professional Learning Communities
Continuous Engagement
PLC - 16

17. Therefore we begin from Perspectives on School Leadership