0. Growing Leadership Potential: the leadership profiles Keren Caple and Julie Hyde Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership Passion and Purpose – setting the learning agenda Australian Council for Educational Leaders Conference - 3 October 2014

1. AITSL’s mission is to promote excellence in teacher and school leader practice for the benefit of all young Australians

3. Australian Professional Standard for Principals
Context: School, sector, community: socio-economic, geographic: and education systems at local, regional, national and global levels
The standard for principals : The role in action
Leadership requirements
Professional practices
Vision and values
Knowledge
and understanding
Personal qualities, social and interpersonal skills
High quality learning, teaching and schooling
Successful learners, confident creative individuals and active informed citizens*
Leading teaching and learning
Developing self and others
Leading improvement, innovation and change
Leading the management of the school
Engaging and working with the community

4. The Standard - impact For individual leaders:
provided a common language of leadership
enabled better understanding of the role
focused leaders own professional learning
For systems:
influenced current system initiatives
shaped professional learning frameworks
reflected in workforce policies and processes

5. 360o Reflection Tool - development
directly linked to the Standard
supported by broad consultation
launched 2013 – extensive uptake from school and system leaders
resource for aspiring and current leaders

6. 360o Reflection Tool

7. School leader - individual registration
Assists in gaining an understanding of the components of leadership, current skills and individual capacity
Provides a road map for ongoing professional development

8. System leader – group registration
Linked to school leader network or education system
Enables group leaders to define learning needs
Assists to focus future professional learning opportunities

9. 360o Reflection Tool User Guide
User Guide includes:
overview of the process
assistance to interpret feedback
an action planner

10. Leadership Strengths - Australian school leaders

12. Why have Profiles?
The Profiles will assist school leaders to build their leadership capacity by enabling them to:
identify their current leadership practice
reflect on the context of their current practice
plan their next stage of development

13. How were the Profiles developed?
Nov 13 Profession - consultations shaped draft Profiles
Expert Steering Group
Project Reference Group
Expert Practitioners Group
March 14 Uni Melb team - validated draft Profiles
survey gained school leader responses
May 14 Profession - consulted on draft Profiles
300+ school/system leaders
9 locations across Australia
Jun/Aug 14 Profiles finalised – reflecting feedback

14. What are the Profiles?
The Profiles have been based on the Standard and are made up of sets of statements that progressively increase in complexity

15. Show Profiles diagram – standard view

16. Progressive and increasing in complexity:
Principals promote the benefits of professional learning to all staff and make sure that their willingness and efforts to learn and improve are recognised. The develop and implement an organisational vision which links all learning and development activities to better student outcomes ………
Principals create challenging roles, responsibilities and opportunities for senior leaders that leverage and grow the talents of others. They build and sustain a coaching and mentoring culture… and have a system of peer review and feedback in place ………

17. What are the Profiles?
…AND are able to be viewed through a number of lenses
Professional Practices - of the Standard
Leadership Requirements - of the Standard
Leadership Emphasis - context of leadership

18. Using the Profiles: Professional Practice lens
Focus on the Professional Practices of the Standard
Leading teaching and learning
Developing self and others
Leading improvement, innovation and change
Leading the management of the school
Engaging and working with the community

19. Show Profiles diagram – standard view

20. Using the Profiles: Leadership Requirements lens
Focus on the Leadership Requirements of the Standard
Vision and values
Knowledge and understanding
Personal qualities, social and interpersonal skills

22. Using the Profiles: Leadership Emphasis lens
Focus determined by time, place and stage of development
Operational
Relational
Strategic
Systemic

24. With the person next to you:
Read and consider your school leader persona.
What is the current issues or concern for them? What Professional Practice is their major focus?
What resources linked to the Profiles would support their next leadership actions?

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26. School Leadership Clearinghouse
(soon to be renamed School Leadership e-Collection)
1,100+ leadership resources
full electronic format
local and international journals
reports and articles
topical reading lists
websites/multimedia
Monthly eNews links

27. Teaching and learning tools and resources
My Standards app
Classroom Practice Continuum

28. Teaching and learning tools and resources
Self-Assessment Tool
Illustrations of Practice
Teacher Toolkit
Teacher Toolkit

29. Learning Frontiers Leadership Pedagogy Assessment Technology
Community/parent partnerships
Learner agency

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