1. 1 Innovative practices strand: Case studies of innovative practices Question A: New models of school organisation and management that distribute leadership roles and responsibilities in innovative ways Question B: Promising programmes and practices to prepare and develop school leaders

2. 2 Innovative Distribution of Leadership Roles and Responsibilities UK October 30-November 2, 2006 --Department for Education and Skills --Outwood Grange College, Wakefield, W. Yorkshire --Federation of Chalvedon School & Sixth Form College and Barstable School, Basildon, Essex r Finland January 16-19, 2007 --Ministry of Education and National Agency for Education, Helsinki -- Tampere City School System and school --Jarvenpaa municipality and General Upper Secondary School r Belgium, April 2007 --To Be Determined

3. 3 Initial findings r United Kingdom -- Clear, powerful national vision and coherent, aligned national policy system, -- Head teachers: Transformational, strategic, adaptive -- High performance schools -- Distributed leadership -- System leadership -- Policy implications

4. 4 Initial Findings (cont’d.) r Finland r Finnish approach to leadership: embodies the systemic and distributed approach. r Features of the systemic approach: r -steering by curriculum r -governance structure reform processes r Trust in teaching profession: high quality and well respected (collective teacher efficacy) r -Drive for special needs education r -Municipality, subsidiarity and community: Investment in public education and public life r -General and political consensus on investment in education r -Assessment based only on self evaluation, resistance to heavy inspection -Culture of lifelong learning

5. 5 Next Steps r Complete Question A case studies r Select and complete Question B case studies r Selection criteria: (1) Country representativeness, breadth of stakeholders, scope, duration, promise of impact (2) Focus on leading for learning, theory of action, apply principles of adult learning and leadership development r Sites under initial consideration r International workshop