1. ExE – British Council Colombia, June 2012 School Leadership Development Raphael Wilkins Sub-brand to go here

2. Relationships between business management and school leadership A personal narrative Schools as ‘big business’: general (campus) management The ‘industry specifics’ of school leadership How schools work as organisations 2

3. Two meanings of ‘Education’ 1.Social control and training, to transmit culture and prepare people for (a predictable) life 2.Enabling the ‘blossoming’ of the individual to the full extent of their aptitudes so they can optimise an unknown future 3

4. Education and Culture ‘ Education embraces formal and informal domains’ Colin Brock (2011) ‘Education is the process of “encounter” between individual capacities and culture, in which both are changed’ Jane Roland Martin (2011) 4

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7. School leadership in context 1.Headteacher as sustainer of continual improvement 2.Headteacher as expert problem-solver 3.Headteacher as the unlocker of potential 4.Headteacher as initiator and builder 7

8. Dimensions of educational innovation Aims and purposes: changing aspirations The nature of interpersonal relationships: from fear to student voice ‘Technologies’ of teaching and learning, including ICT Curriculum Organisational form 8

9. Through what activities do ‘leaders’ ‘lead’? Influencing policy-making Contributing to governance Management Professional practice Administration Symbolic actions and personal example Communication: oral/written, external/internal, formal/informal, conscious/unconscious 9

10. Leadership development: a hierarchical model Development programmes in: Beginning leadership Early leadership Middle leadership Senior leadership Preparation for Headship Induction and early development for headteachers Development for experienced headteachers System leadership 10

11. Leadership development: a thematic model Development programmes in: Leadership of teaching and learning Strategic and business leadership Pastoral leadership and student engagement Leadership of professional development and culture Leadership of resource management and learning environment Leadership of research engagement Leadership of external relations and partnership with parents 11