1. Next Practice in System Leadership www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/innovation-unit www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/innovation- unit/investigation/nextpractice_main/ ?version=1

2. Next Practice in System Leadership ‘Practice that is aware of conventional 'good' practice, its strengths and its limitations; and which explicitly sets out to move it to a new level, or even in some cases radically to change it.’ What is Next Practice? Conducted by very able, informed practitioners Informed by critical scanning of the environment to ensure that the projects are not replicating other work Directed at serious, contemporary problems Not (yet) officially sanctioned and therefore maybe entailing some risk.

3. CURRENT PURPOSES/DRIVERS Support schools causing concern Deliver ECM ‘five outcomes’ Deliver ‘All-age’ learning Develop 14-19 curriculum provision Develop ‘whole town’ services Deliver shared services more efficiently Resolve headteacher succession issues FUTURE PURPOSES/DRIVERS Market development Dissolving school boundaries User demands for personalised services LBSI Leadership development needs User- centred Shared Leadership Multiple Sites Multi- Agency Wider system receptivity/support Govt Policy Scaling-up Next Practice in System Leadership Structures Roles Strategies Knowledge Behaviour Skills

4. Roles Responsibilities and structures Knowledge and skills Tasks Approaches and Processes Linking Connecting Assembling Constructing Operating Functioning Lived in Designing, sourcing, gathering L E A D E R S H I P

5. Decentralised, Participatory Lateral, Occasional Top-down, Closed Stakeholder Orientated User Orientated Organisation Orientated GOVERNANCE ARRANGEMENTS

6. Next Practice in System Leadership Some comparisons: –The Conglomerate –The Community –The Alliance –The Self-organising network –The Employee-owned school network –The Consumer governed service