An everyday toolkit for school leaders
We aspire to provide most of what school leaders needs to lead a successful school. It is all about ensuring that provisions for student learning are of the highest quality and that teacher efficacy and high morale for all pervade life at school.
School leaders inspire people to articulate, examine and refine their practice in the light of an agreed understanding of what the most appropriate practice is for their context. They support this growth by actively and visibly leading the growth process, providing the team structures, resources, professional interactions and words of encouragement that are necessary for happy transitions.
This section leads users through all of these facets of school leadership and more, including management practices, approaches to learning and teaching, and organising and managing student groups.
Perhaps most exciting of all, it has a section on ‘Future-ready schools’, an exploration of how the learning needs of today’s students may be best met. It offers a new curriculum, new approaches to learning and teaching, and a brief examination of entrepreneurship, sustainable futures and digital citizenship.
Each section has a collection of all the documents referred to and each has a link so that you can download it at no cost.
About the author - Greg Flattley
Greg created these resources to support new or aspiring school leaders, and those in countries where support is difficult to access.
Greg’s 32 years of experience as a head of schools, Principal, project manager, trainer, coach and consultant in seven different countries has provided many opportunities to try, fail, adapt, adjust, refine and succeed. Over that time, he has gathered quite a collection of approaches, policies, systems and procedures that have proved to work and it makes sense to pass them on.
Greg hopes that these tools will empower school leaders to more quickly create, trial, adapt and share innovations that better serve the needs of today’s students. With that in mind, he has created the ‘Future-ready schools’ tab to get the ball rolling. Please build and improve on this nascent model, make it work and share, share, share.
Future-ready schools
Since the mid-1960’s, enlightened educators saw the need for schools to evolve with changing times. Although many excellent initiatives resulted, they remained largely locked in to structural models of the 19th century.
With the realisation of new work paradigms, critical stresses on our planet, and exponentially evolving technologies, the restrictions of our current school models have become abundantly apparent. Consequently, many innovations are afoot to re-frame curriculum and its provision.
The accompanying resources lead to an exploration of current innovations that seek to transform our approaches.
