Building resilience through challenge
Since the devastating earthquakes of 2012 the town of Kaiapoi has been supporting our young people and families to get through tough times and build resilience. The skills and strategies used then helped though other challenges to come including an arson, losing a member of a school family in a terrorist shooting, and through COVID-19 lockdowns, remote learning, and reintegration back to school. The constant through all of these were caring staff, strong Values and Beliefs, letting children express their feelings in ways they were comfortable with, and having strong clear guidance for staff to support their own resilience and the resilience of children in their care.
Jason Miles, Principal, Kaiapoi North School, New Zealand
Making best use of the 2020 Headteachers' Standards
The publication of the 2020 Headteachers’ Standards was delayed by the pandemic leading to a phased introduction. This webinar will indicate the research and evidence base used to develop these Standards and cover the introduction of the completely new Section 1 to the Standards: Ethics and Professional Conduct.
Malcolm Trobe, Chair, Review of Headteachers' Standards Group
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A Toolkit for Coaching Leaders to Implement Change
Have you ever felt at a loss as to how to set out a change strategy or uncertain about the next steps to take? Coaching a leader to learn the change process will develop their skills, confidence, and resilience and importantly benefit the long-term performance of the organisation. It is about questioning and reflecting. Through coaching a leader, you will ensure they are asking the right questions. Using coaching is a learning opportunity for both parties. The benefits enhance involvement and ownership of the learning process.
Steve Playford, Leadership and Resilience Consultant
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Restructuring the SLT – Roles & Responsibilities
Does your SLT require a restructure? Are you a new Head or Principal who has inherited a team that you need to develop? Ensuring the right people are in the right jobs can make or break a team, it can also provide opportunities for development and further training while building on existing strengths to ensure that best practice is shared while also maximising outcomes for students.
Gary Moore, Headteacher, Regent High School
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Appraisal is changing: A guide to adopting a developmental approach
Following the recent ASCL and BlueSky Education Information paper ‘Changing approaches to performance management and appraisal’, and the latest Guidance paper, this Leading On session offers a guide to implementing a developmental appraisal practice in your school or trust. BlueSky Education CEO Denise Inwood and ASCL Conditions of Employment Specialist Louise Hatswell will explore how to develop an appraisal strategy, taking into consideration the related policies, procedures and school processes as well as offering a model timeline for the transition.
Denise Inwood, CEO, BlueSky
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Your first year as a new Headteacher
This webinar is aimed at new Headteachers, who started their role in September 2022. After a month in post, this webinar will provide delegates with the opportunity to reflect upon their first month of headship and consider how they plan to address the many challenges that lie ahead.
Gareth Burton, Headteacher, Wordsley School
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The Road to Zero Exclusions
This session will focus on providing transferable lessons to apply in various contexts to reduce exclusions and improve school-wide behaviour substantially. Delegates will develop an understanding of behavioural work for developing responsibility. In addition, there will be advice and guidance on how to develop policies that prevent poor behaviour that leads to exclusion. Alternatives to exclusion will also be examined within the context of a shared vision for all stakeholders.
Gary Moore, Headteacher, Regent High School
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Sustaining your Leadership; a toolkit to flourish and avoid burnout
This webinar will give you the opportunity to consider models of measuring risk, assess your priorities and whilst being authentic and true to your values.
The webinar will also look at your resilience, wellbeing, your routines, and how the body deals with stress and burnout, and the emotion of change when you move out of your comfort zone.
Steve Playford, Leadership and Resilience Consultant
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Leadership Development through Coaching
In this session, leaders will learn skills to bring out the best in themselves and their teams and enable them to be more reflective practitioners. We will learn how to set meaningful behaviour changing goals with specific steps on how to achieve them, how to reflect on successes both individually and with our teams, how we ‘design a team alliance’ and a ‘leader alliance’ committing to the culture and ethos of the team. We will also learn more about effective conversations through great listening, paying attention, and great speaking including using powerful questioning.
Trish Dooley, Education Consultant
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Co Active Coaching - transforming the professional, personal and well-being development of senior leaders
Julian is committed to supporting school leaders at all levels, particularly Headteachers, Principals and senior leaders, to navigate their way through the immense professional challenges they face in the current climate, as well as embrace their full leadership potential, whilst re-discovering or sustaining a state of positive well-being and fulfilment in their personal lives. Co-Active coaching possesses the techniques, power and evidence base to achieve this -
with you.
Julian Burrows, Professional Coach and Education Consultant
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Head of School - Making it count!
This webinar is designed to help bridge the gap between Deputy Headship and the role of a Head of School, whilst still having a Headteacher or CEO in place. The session will look specifically at the skill set required for a Head of School role and provide opportunities to ask questions and to take advantage of a networking opportunity in a role that is increasingly used in schools.
Lisa McCall, Head of School, Wales High School
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Leadership can be lonely
Using humour, real-life stories, practical fun tools Pete will share a number of tried and tested tools and tricks to coach ourselves, use the voice in our head to help us move on with confidence and a lightness of heart.
Peter Hall Jones, Personal Coach, Organisation, Culture and Leadership Consultant
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