2. Building Early Leadership GEOFF BARTON

3. Building Early Leadership  How it was  How it is  How it could be 6

4. Building Early Leadership How it used to be

5. Building Early Leadership Roy Samson Lawrie Lowton John Baumber

6. Building Early Leadership Michael Fullan: Teachers’ careers = 1 x 25

7. Building Early Leadership Teacher Training

8. Building Early Leadership

9. LEADERSHIP Building Early Leadership

10. Step 1: Create a leadership culture

11. Building Early Leadership The need for leadership Nowadays all the children behave like adults and all the adults behave like children (Terry Waite)

12. Building Early Leadership If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can’t, you’re right. (Henry Ford)

13. Building Early Leadership The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen. (Frank Lloyd Wright)

14. Building Early Leadership Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win. (Bernadette Devlin)

15. Building Early Leadership "I've missed over 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times I've been trusted to take the game- winning shot... and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed." (Michael Jordan)

16. Building Early Leadership If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more … you are a leader. (John Quincy Adams)

17. Building Early Leadership Step 2: Create a learning-enriched school Rosenholtz

18. Building Early Leadership Learning enriched schools “It is far easier to learn to teach, and to learn to teach better, in some schools than in others” Rosenholtz

19. Building Early Leadership Learning enriched schools (Schools are places where students go to watch the teachers working - JWB)

20. Building Early Leadership Learning enriched schools Research culture Collaboration Challenge hierarchies Experiment & evaluate

21. Building Early Leadership Step 3: Talk pathways & expertise

22. Building Early Leadership THEN: Fixed roles Individual Autocratic Control Managed NOW: Flexible roles Shared Collaborative Release Managing

23. Building Early Leadership Central place of the portfolio

24. Building Early Leadership Novice Advanced beginner Competent Proficient Expert

25. Initial Teacher Training QTS / Career Entry Profile Induction Aspiring subject leader Subject leader qualification Middle management Whole-school coordination Leadership Team NPQH Headship LPSH Advanced skills teacher

26. Building Early Leadership Core role Teaching expertise Career management

27. Building Early Leadership Step 4: Demystify leadership

28. Building Early Leadership Break up groups Challenge age = experience assumption Open up the leadership team Publicise decision-making processes

29. Building Early Leadership Step 5: Grow your own leaders

30. Building Early Leadership In-house middle management training: Key ingredients

31. Building Early Leadership Step 6: Look beyond your school

32. Building Early Leadership Placements Coaching Case studies Shared training opportunities Visits

33. Building Early Leadership Summary: Leadership is central to good teaching Create a culture of leadership Don’t underestimate the quality of educational leadership Every teaching appointment is a potential leadership appointment In-house leadership training, however rough around the edges, is essential Use a good model of learning Look beyond the school

34. Building Early Leadership GEOFF BARTON