SWALSS

Day 1: What is Effective Leadership?

• Differences between leadership and management
• Strategic, visionary and operational leadership
• Leadership styles
• Characteristics of effective leadership

Day 2: Leading Learning

• Understanding learning – contexts and processes
• Principles and values that underpin learning
• Sharing a vision for learning and taking other people on board
• Personalised learning

Day 3: Pedagogical Leadership

• Defining quality of teaching based on the Ofsted criteria
• Systems for tracking pupil progress
• Supporting differentiation
• Enabling systems – processes and procedures

Day 4: Evaluative Leadership

• Systems management
• Monitoring to prove and monitoring to improve
• Evaluating impact
• Evidence based judgements

Day 5: Strategic Leadership

• Leading change within an organisation
• School improvement planning systems
• Building teams – roles and responsibilities
• Converting aspiration into reality

Day 6: Curriculum Leadership

• Defining a special curriculum
• Curriculum balance in a special school
• Effective curriculum leadership
• Curriculum innovation

Day 7: Review of the Journey

• Celebration of success
• Sharing learning
• Building networks
• Identifying next steps

£380 for SWALSS schools / £475 for non-SWALSS schools

(including membership of SWALSS - the cost of a second delegate from a non-SWALSS school would be £380, as you will only need to pay for membership once through the fee for the first delegate.