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Dear colleagues Seasons’ greetings! I am sure you are looking forward to a wellearned break as we turn the corner into the New Year. We have had an exceptionally successful term in LCLL including over 170 leaders completing masters programmes, 1500 + leaders joining our leadership development programmes and awards of prestigious research projects. Our aim is to connect and apply knowledge and evidence about leadership and learning across all these areas and thank you for joining us to do so. Professor Toby Greany, Professor of Leadership and Innovation at LCLL, gives the LCLL annual lecture in March 2014. He is exploring what a self-improving school system looks like and how to work towards one, so do consider making space in your diaries. You can see some forthcoming Spring events on the right-hand panel with further events in the calendar here. We look forward to welcoming you. On behalf of everyone at LCLL, we wish you a festive and relaxing Christmas and a happy New Year. Vivienne Porritt Executive Director, LCLL
________________________________________ Latest news and opportunities Grand Curriculum Designs: Are you ready for the new school curriculum: improving outcomes for learners. Grand Curriculum Designs is a pioneering new professional development programme for school leaders and other educators to provide schools with skills to design curricula that are flexible, innovative and responsive to the needs of their students and communities. The national programme is co-led by the IOE, the RSA and a small number of selected schools across England. Be part of a growing national interest in curriculum innovation in 2014. Click here for info! _______________________________________________________
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December 2013 LCLL Membership Spring events Your professional development opportunities in 2014! Exciting learning for leaders and colleagues in educational settings through informal Hot Topic events, seminars and lectures. LCLL membership explores up to the minute ideas, research and practice in education. LCLL members access a members’ only area on our website where presentations and materials from events are posted. Events are open to both members and non members with LCLL members receiving FREE or discounted entry. Join now by calling 020 7612 6689/6245 or email the team at londoncentre@ioe.ac.uk. Or complete an application form. Click here for LCLL events information . Here’s a taste of what we have coming up: Professional Development Quality Mark Award Date: Thursday 23 January 2014 Time: 14.00 - 15.30 Cost: FREE information session Find out about the Professional Development Quality Mark Award and its benefits. Download: booking form (pdf, 0.14mb) | flyer (pdf, 0.62mb) Leading transformational change Date: Wednesday 29 January 2014 Time: 5.00pm - 7.00pm (Registration 4.45pm) Cost: £50.00; £40.00 to LCLL members With: Sue Hellman, LCLL Leading and managing change is a very complex process. Why change? How do you gain commitment and deal with people who are resistant to change? Download: booking form (pdf, 0.14mb) | flyer (pdf, 0.40mb) Ofsted - friend or foe? - *Hot Topic* Date: Wednesday 5 February 2014 Time: 5.00pm - 7.00pm (Registration 4.45pm) Cost: £50.00; FREE to LCLL members With: Professor Peter Earley and Dr Melanie
Network and Partnership News Working with School Partnerships at the IOE The Institute of Education works in strong partnerships with individual schools, clusters of schools and Teaching School Alliances to support improved outcomes for your colleagues, children and young people. Find out more about our new School Partnership Awards. Click here for info! _____________________________________________________
Accredited and professional programmes NEW MA Inspection and Regulation (flexible distance learning) recruiting for 2 March 2014 start A new programme has started with colleagues from England and school inspectors from Abu Dhabi. Places are still available for students to join the programme in March. This MA has been developed with OFSTED, is only offered at the IOE and develops your understanding of the changing demands of the inspection systems and contexts in your own country. Contact: Amanda Williams Click here for info! Flexible distance learning in the Applied Educational Leadership and Management MA Study on this highly-regarded and well-established online Masters programme, connecting and studying with an international cohort. Contact: Isobel Bowditch Click here for info! Leading teacher learning and development Our suite of masters leadership programmes, such as Educational Leadership (International) MBA and MA Leadership offers high quality professional learning. Additionally, Innovative leadership of professional development is tailored to colleagues with experience of leading professional development. This exciting programme, developed by the LCLL, also supports you in the verification of the Professional Development Quality Mark.
Establishing goals and expectations The Professional Development Quality Mark is a very valuable resource for leaders to benchmark the quality and impact of professional development in school improvement practice. The PDQM mark is verified by the IOE. For more information and to download the Quality Mark Framework and Verification process click here Download: Booking form | Flyer
Ehren, LCLL Discover new research evidence, highlighting how the positive aspects of inspection can be enhanced to facilitate school improvement, and discuss ways to enhance our understanding of the impact of school inspection. Download: booking form (pdf, 0.14mb) | flyer (pdf, 0.69mb) Using coaching to create a culture of achievement Date: Wednesday 26 February 2014 Time: 1.30pm - 4.30pm (Registration 1.15pm) Cost: £85.00; £70.00 to LCLL members With: Max Coates, LCLL This session shows how and why coaching creates a positive culture that supports staff and student achievement. Download: booking form (pdf, 0.14mb) | flyer (pdf, 0.69mb) LCLL Annual Lecture - Are we nearly there yet? progress and next steps towards a selfimproving school system Date: Tuesday 18 March 2014 Time: 17.30 - 19.30 Cost: £50.00; FREE to LCLL members With: Toby Greany, Professor of Leadership and Innovation, LCLL What might a self-improving school system actually look like in practice and what might be required from government and schools for it to succeed? Download: booking form (pdf, 0.14mb) | flyer (pdf, 0.57mb)
Special offer on Professional Learning Community service for members Access a bundle of resources for online access for staff to acclaimed CPD magazines, including School Leadership Today, Leadership Briefing and Professional Development Today. LCLL members obtain this fantastic resource at a special rate of £250.00 Primary Schools (normally £500.00), and £350.00 (normally £700.00) Secondary Schools. Full details at http://www.teachingtimes.com/articles/plcforl cllm.htm
International Middle leaders: making the most of your teams through innovative professional development This practical and interactive opportunity supports you to: learn about latest approaches to effective professional development (PD) develop a strategic vision for PD ensure that PD makes a difference for your colleagues and pupils
Use this link for information about all our international leadership activity Contact: Chris To Transforming Education – Authentic Leadership programme at Roots International School, Pakistan
plan for effective PD collaborate with middle leader colleagues. Contact: Eirini Konstantinidou Click here for more info! Foundations for successful coaching A two day programme that will help you to develop your coaching skills to support change, personal performance and learning. This programme offers a blend of theoretical input with extensive opportunities to practise core coaching skills. Contact: Eirini Konstantinidou Click here for more info!
Publications and Social Media resources Timely new and existing resources adding impact to your research and practice NEW Making Evidence Matter: A new perspective for evidence-informed policy making in education, Chris Brown, (IOE Press) This title re-examines the arguments in favour of evidence-informed policy making in education, examines why evidence is often disregarded by policy makers and advances the idea that a paradigm of partnership between researchers and policy makers is required in order to improve the current situation. It is aimed at researchers, practitioners and policy makers interested in enhancing the use of evidence in policy making. Click here for more info! Contact: Chris Brown Click here to read an interview with Chris Brown See Chris’s IOE London Blog - Time to re-think the unthinkable: how can we get our research messages discussed by politicians? NEW Exploring the School Leadership Landscape, Peter Earley, Bloomsbury Drawing on a wealth of research, Exploring the School Leadership Landscape critically considers the ways in which school leadership and its practice have evolved, exploring what has changed and what has remained the same over the last decade. Both empirically and theoretically informed, it covers: - the relationship between leadership and student learning - school autonomy, accountability and the market - leadership and governance - leadership intensification and distribution - new models including system leadership. Click here for more info! NEW Capacity for learning: getting serious about practice improvement, in Leading Educational Change: Global issues, challenges, and lessons on whole-system reform, Teachers College Press A collection of original essays from international experts in the field of educational change representing 15 countries across 6 continents, includes a chapter from Louise Stoll. Each chapter draws
An intensive interactive 5-day leadership programme ‘Transforming Education – Authentic Leadership’ was th led 24-29 October 2013 in Islamabad, Pakistan by Dr Raphael Wilkins, Director of International Affairs at the London Centre for Leadership in Learning with Joyce Macfarlane as programme leader. It included topics ranging from the appropriateness of specific leadership styles to the leadership of interactive methods for engaging learners. Post-course tasks offered space for the change teams to lead improvement and to identify specific leadership development needs. ‘The programme went well because it provided exposure to world-wide information and learning through peer interaction through a confident and focussed approach.’ Taqaddus Fatima, Branch Head. LCLL are in discussions with Roots for follow on consultancy support to help build the organisation’s leadership capacity as it aims to expand into the Middle East. Walid Mushtaq, the inspirational Founder and CEO of Roots International Schools (RIS) in Pakistan (shown in the picture with LCLL staff and programme participants), sought out the IOE as he has high ambitions for his rapidly growing chain of schools. Contact: Joyce Macfarlane, Programme Leader, International Consultancy
Professional programmes IOE’s suite of leadership programmes Following up on performance reviews this term? Maybe you are considering professional leadership training for some of your staff – or for yourself? Then why not let us help you? Start one of the excellent accredited programmes from our LCLL suite in January or April – choose from Early Leadership – for new and aspiring middle leaders; Developing Middle Leaders – for established middle leaders with experience of leading teams or Widening Leadership – for more senior middle leaders new to or about to move up to SLT. Book your place or for more information contact Maggie Woods or call 0207 612 6616. Click the links for information about the individual programmes. Costs are £530 or £550 for the six month programme.
on the latest knowledge from research, policy, and practice to provide important insights for creating systemic, meaningful reform. Contact: Louise Stoll
News from IOE: Leadership CoLab on the National College for Teaching & Leadership’s Leadership Curriculum programmes
NEW Law, Education, Politics, Fairness: England's extreme legislation for education reform, Dan Gibton, IOE Press This title analyses how and why England has had so much law-based education reform in the last three decades and asks what can be learned about the pros and cons of legislation as a policy tool. Focusing on the period 2000 to 2011, it looks at the politics and mechanisms of education policy and reform and the figures and organisations involved in it and that bear its impact.
NPQH – If you have already made an application for NPQH and have been told you have passed the entry assessment, you will know that you have to find a provider for the programme to start at the end of January, and we will be delighted to work with anyone who wishes to join us. More information and how to register your interest in working with us here.
Riley, K (2013) Leadership of Place: Stories from Schools in the US, UK and South Africa Click here for info! NEW School Inspection Impact See LCLL's Dr Melanie Ehren discussing the impact of school inspections on teaching and learning (video) http://bit.ly/19yRvyH
NPQH – Please note that the next application round for entry assessment opens on Thursday th 12 December with a deadline for submission of th 11 February, and if successful, you will start the programme in September 2014. More info and online application form here. Middle/Senior Leaders – we are recruiting right now to start NPQML and NPQSL in the late spring term and these qualifications are already being requested in job descriptions. More info and application forms for both programmes can be found here.
IOE London blog It carries views, news and thought pieces from IOE academics, practitioners and occasional guest writers, and is a key way for you to engage with policy, practice and debate. Click here for info!
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