Transcript Leadership in the Twenty

Leadership in the 21st Century
Geoff Barton
Head, King Edward VI School, Suffolk
Download this presentation at www.geoffbarton.co.uk
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Talk about leadership
Health check
Debunk some myths
Tame some big beasts
Do something
Provocations:
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Vision is overstated
Strategy is overstated
Much futures thinking is
hot air
Britain isn’t Sweden
Learning styles may be a
cul-de-sac
There’s no cavalry
Our
Us Them
schools
The Anxiety
of Influence
Heroes & Villains
Heroes & Villains
• Inside education
• Outside education
Me
Lawrie Lowton
Steve Jobs
What can
we learn
from
Gordon
Brown?
School Improvement
Health Check
History boys pic
50s, 60s, 70s …
Social
engineering via
grammars and
comprehensives:
sink or swim
mentality
prevails
Postcode
determines your
life chances
80s, 90s…
National
prescription,
self-evaluation,
LMS,
specialisation,
some autonomy
Postcode
determines your
life chances
1997-2009
National
strategies,
school
improvement,
heavy
accountability,
investment,
ECM, leadership,
academies
Postcode
determines your
life chances …?
Beacon Schools
Super Heads
Training Schools
Consultant Heads
Coasting Schools
Executive Heads
Schools are becoming immune
to school improvement
London Challenge
National challenge
Leading Edge
Consultants
Gaining Ground
Leading Light Schools
National strategies
School improvement partners
Trust Schools
So now, it’s over to us
TAMING
THE BIG
BEASTS
Our
students
Our staff
Implications
Ourselves
Our future
leaders
Theory
Practice
TAMING
THE BIG
BEASTS
Michael Barber
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Identify what works and
“implement”
Targets to monitor progress
Consistency
Best-performing systems:
Teacher training = craft
Teacher recruitment = tough
Teacher CPD = collaborative
Teachers focus on pedagogy
SEN is SEN, but not as we know
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Dylan Wiliam
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Architect of ‘real’ AfL
No hands up
Better questions
No marks
Questions VAK, etc
Teacher learning communities
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John West-Burnham
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Leadership a moral activity
Schools account for 20% of a child’s
life-chances (versus personal and
social influences)
Focus on learning, not teaching
The purpose of a caterpillar is not
to be a better caterpillar
Need to move from schooling to
education = transformation
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Leadership in the 21st Century
Geoff Barton
Head, King Edward VI School, Suffolk
Download this presentation at www.geoffbarton.co.uk