1. Dave Harris @bravehead

2. WHO AM I??  Formed a 3-18 school by amalgamating a secondary, junior & infants in record time  Formed an innovative academy with a university  Author of “Are You Dropping the baton?”  Author of “Brave Heads”  Author of “Leadership Dialogues” with Prof. John West Burnham  Writing “Dialogues around vulnerability and equity” with Prof John West-Burnham  Working on leadership with heart around the World  Working around the world supporting education across the ages  Business Director for Independent Thinking  Organise educational tours of the UK  Believe that work without passion is pointless

3. ARE YOU HUMAN TOO??

4. HOW DO YOU SEE YOUR ROLE?

11. We do not see the world as it is, we see the world the way we think it is Aristotle.

12. ONE OF THE ONLY PLACES OPERATING LARGELY AS IT DID MORE THAN 50 YEARS AGO WOULD BE THE LOCAL SCHOOL Numella & Caine

14. THE WORLD OUR KIDS ARE GOING TO LIVE IN IS CHANGING FOUR TIMES FASTER THAN OUR SCHOOLS Dr. Willard Daggett

15. HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT TECHNOLOGY?

17. KIDS ARE DIGITAL NATIVES

19. How must this change education?

20. Vs

21. What is education for?

22. EDUCATIONS SHOULD NOT BE JUDGED BY A NARROW SET OF RESULTS!

23. PISA RANKINGS 1.Singapore 2.Hong Kong 3.South Korea Do we really want to be like them? One of the countries of the world with the worst results in the Index of Happiness (90º) Highest number of teenage suicides in the world One of the countries of the world with the worst results in the Index of Happiness (100º)

25. THE SIGMOID CURVE

26. WHERE ARE YOU ON THE SIGMOID CURVE

27. TAKING CONTROL OF THE JOURNEY

28. A UČINKOVITO VODENJE BSTRATEŠKO RAZMIŠLJANJE CVODENJE UVAJANJA INOVACIJ IN SPREMEMB DVODENJE POUČEVANJA IN UČENJA EVODENJE IN UPRAVLJANJE VIROV FVODENJE LJUDI GSODELOVANJE HSODELOVANJE Z UČENCI, STARŠI IN LOKALNO SKUPNOSTJO

29. WHY IS DIALOGUE IMPORTANT?

30. DIALOGUE : Enhances relationships Builds trust Secures effective communication Facilitates learning Engages motivation Models effective leadership

31. SO WHAT DOES RESEARCH TELL US?

32. Biggest single effect is internal variation in teaching 90 th % 37 th %

33. WHAT PERCENTAGE OF YOUR NORMAL WEEK? People Systems Leadership Management

34. LEADING PEOPLE

35. 1. SHARED VALUES “Authentic leaders anchor their practice in ideas, values and commitments” - Sergiovanni (See Finland for agreement around key values)

36. MORAL LEADERSHIP “Education is effectively a moral activity. Morality is a crucial factor in educating the next generation, so schools, given the nature of their professional and social responsibilities need to be moral communities.”

37. TOPIC A2 Leadership Dialogues

38. TOPIC A2 Leadership

39. 2. TRUST “trust remains a powerful and strong predictor of student achievement even after the effects of student background, prior achievement, race and Gender have been taken into account” Day et al What happens when people make mistakes at your school?

40. 3. PROFESSIONAL LEARNING Effect size comparison: (by Robinson) 0.84 - promoting & participating in teacher learning & development 0.42 - Establishing goals and expectations 0.42 - Planning, coordinating and evaluating the curriculum 0.31 - strategic resourcing 0.27 - Ensuring an orderly and supportive environment “The leader participates in the learning as a leader, learner or both… both informal and formal” JWB

41. 4. MOVE FROM FIND AND FIX TO PREDICT & PREVENT “The best way to close the gap is to prevent children failing and that means actively challenging poor and inappropriate performance and that in turn means identifying and embedding appropriate performance…. It is not just what we do, it’s the way that things are done!” JWB

42. RECAP: WHAT THE RESEARCH IS TELLING US 1. Shared Values 2. Trust 3. Professional Learning 4. Move from find and fix to Predict & Prevent Is this what is happening in your schools?

44. TOPIC G5 Educating across the ages Leadership Dialogues

46. Does the brain require a change at 11?

47. IT IS NOT A QUESTION OF GROWING WISER AS YOU GROW OLDER. THIS IS A THOROUGHLY MISGUIDED CONCEPT. There are, after all, some very stupid old people.

50. Up, up and away!!

52. JSLA

55. Margaret Wheatley “Leadership in the 21 st century”

56. “Self similarity is achieved not through compliance to an exhaustive set of standards and rules, but from a few simple principles that everyone is accountable for, operating in a condition of individual freedom”.

57. take action, not notes

58. www.independentthinking.co.uk

59. daveharriseducation@gmail.com @bravehead

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