Student Centred Leadership
It is about creating the conditions to support
effective teaching, and aligning systems and
processes to these outcomes.
What is Student Centred Leadership?
It is about the social exchanges of school: teachers with students, teachers with other teachers, teachers with parents, and all groups with the school principal.
What is relational trust?
Specific, Measurable, Achievable (but challenging), Relevant, and Time-bound.
What is a SMART goal?
Personnel, time, money and systems.
What are your main resources as a principal?
• poorly defined
• multiple causes
• no clear solution pathway
• competing perspectives
What makes a problem ‘complex’?
1.Applying Relevant Knowledge,
2.Solving Complex Problems,
3.Building Relational Trust.
What are the 3 Leadership Capabilities?
Daily interactions and quality conversations are key.
How is trust built?
To establish what is relatively more important than other important things (a narrow and deep focus).
To guide the allocation of scarce resources.
Why do we set goals?
To discuss and openly debate important issues; clarify ideas; solve problems; negotiate.
To build relationships.
Why meet in person in a connected world?
Define the problem.
Identify the likely cause of the problem – focus on reasons that the school has control over.
Identify possible solutions – will it improve student outcomes, be within the budget, not an unreasonable impact on workload.
What are the 3 phases to problem solving?
Look at its impact on the learning and achievement of the students.
How can you judge the effectiveness of educational leadership?
Respecting self and others. Using 'we' language rather than 'I' language.
Explaining your thinking & being an active listener.
Planning & agreeing on next steps together.
What is a win win approach to building trust?
1.People must be personally committed to the goal(s) set.
2.Clarity: School goals must be specific and unambiguous.
3.People must have the capacity to achieve the goal(s) set.
What are 3 conditions needed for goals to be effective?
Resourcing decisions influence student outcomes.
Why is effective resourcing important?
Quick fixes often lead to solutions that are not sustained or only solve surface level symptoms of the problem.
What is the impact of solving a problem with a quick fix, using your intuition?
QT: Bonus Points
QT is the single most important school-based factor in achieving outcomes for students.
Why does quality teaching matter?
QT Bonus Points
It is teachers’ continuous professional growth to develop the will and capacity to choose from a wide range of deep content knowledge and pedagogical approaches.
What is adaptive expertise of teachers?
QT Bonus Points
They create environments that foster engagement, curiosity, motivation & persistence.
What do expert teachers do well?
QT Bonus Points
Name 4 of the 8 themes identified as likely to make the biggest difference to our students (What Works Best).
High Expectations; Explicit Teaching; Effective Feedback; Use of Data to Inform Practice; Assessment; Classroom Management; Wellbeing; Collaboration.
QT Bonus
It helps with: the allocation of resources; the implementation of support schemes for students; increasing professional development for staff members; improving student performance.
Why do we need to understand data?