Course Details
Learning-centred leadership
Schools are increasingly recognising the close relationship between effective leadership and effective learning, and the vital role that teams play in both. The aim of this course is to offer a holistic model of leadership, learning and team working focused on strategies to support pupils' learning and achievement.
The course will be useful for:
- members of school leadership teams (headteachers, deputies, assistant heads, Sencos, etc)
- governors with a responsibility for leadership and learning
- any other staff aspiring to these positions
The course will use current research and best practice to help you reflect on your own practice and practice in your school and so develop a model of optimum effectiveness. The course deals with the following four interrelated themes:
- What is leadership?
- Understanding effective learning
- Learning-centred leadership
- Effective learning-centred leadership teams
Author Biography
Meet the course author:
Hilary Street has been an Associate of the International School Effectiveness and Improvement Centre at the Institute of Education, London University since 1995.
She has worked as a classroom teacher, head of department in secondary schools, an LEA adviser and deputy and acting director of a comprehensive sixth form centre in inner London. She has worked cross-phase in primary, secondary and post-16 sectors since 1978. She spent five years working in Hong Kong, working for the Hong Kong Open University and managing a project on education for more able children for one of the English Schools’ Foundation Schools.
In 1987 she joined the Evaluation team at the Research and Statistics Department in the Inner London Education Authority. Here, she worked with schools on the construction, implementation and evaluation and monitoring of school development plans and the associated leadership and management issues. Since then she has been actively involved in the school improvement field and now divides her time between being an Associate of ISEIC, a school improvement adviser for two inner London boroughs and the editor and writer of the Leadership Paper series for the primary and secondary membership of the National Association of Head Teachers.