CPD Team

As previewed before the summer break (The Summer School on Glow), the CPD Team intend to ‘+glow’ the Leadership Summer School to enhance the event and improve its impact. This will provide benefits for both attendees to the Glasgow event and those who come along on Glow

There will be 3 outputs of this work.

1. An online community to share resources, host discussion points and help with evaluation of impact
2. A series of CPDMeets (live video streaming from the event). These will feature sessions led by Mick Waters, David Hopkins and David Mongon.  
3. A series of CPDShorts. These will recordings of the CPDMeets with appropriate reflection / discussion points

Please feel free to express an interest in this unique event on Glowand you will be contacted with more details shortly. 

• More details on the CPDFind opportunity – The Summer School on Glow
• You can see highlights from the previous 3 Summer Schools on the Summer School website

Thanks to CPD Managers at local authority level for returning the leadership survey. Interesting now for the National CPD team to be looking at models of leadership development within schools. Really worthwhile to hear of interesting initiatives on this to support our own observations.

We enjoyed holding our second meeting of the leadership advisory group in June.  This is a consultancy group formed with the purpose of informing and advising the National CPD Team.  From the evidence of the leadership survey we agreed some action points on leadership development designed to support local authorities. 

The experience of Margaret Barclay, Danny Murphy, Gillian Hamilton and Charlie McAteer continues to be invaluable in determining our contribution to the national agenda.  We will take forward these action points and be in liaison with CPD Managers as we do this.  One of the action points is to review and redraft “CPD For Educational Leaders (2003)” which we know many of us continue to use to provide a structure for leadership development at school and authority level.

Jim Keegans 13.07.10

We were all inspired by the FRH Leadership conference over two days in May.  We joined 42 aspiring headteachers from 11 local authorities and 22 professional development coaches.  We focussed on the themes of strategic leadership, coaching and personal learning plans.  We were very pleased with the positive evaluation of the programme and look forward to meeting up again withour colleagues at our next one day seminar in November. 

We have attached a copy of the FRH model for your information.

FRH Model

Jim Keegans 13.07.10

Excellent TED talk by Charles Leadbetter who works with Cisco.
http://tinyurl.com/373j5fo

Also check out the article that followed his input at the Scottish Learning Festival which covers much of the same ground

http://tinyurl.com/2wuubv4

Photo from LTScotland

Warmest congratulations to all of the successful children, young people, teachers and schools who attended the Scottish Education Awards in Glasgow last Friday. It was an unrelentingly positive experience with butterflies to welcome us, dancers to entertain us, and an X-Factor finalist to sing to us.

Positive messages were everywhere. It was a wonderful celebration.

Don’t miss out – get your nominations in for next year just as soon as the invitation is made!

This is a recording of  a CPDMeet held on Friday June 18th, 2010. It features a presentation by Curriculum for Excellence with John McCann (Director of Next Practice in Scotland’s Colleges) with contributions by David Cameron (leading educational consultant). John’s message is powerfully simple; Scotland’s Colleges have been on the CfE journey already (eg from external to internal assessment) so why not invite them into the CPD conversations?

You can get more information, including links to other related material on the CPDMeet 10 Glow page

CPDMeets are run regularly on Glow. More information on the CPDAnswers blog post; What is a CPDMeet?

Journalist Douglas Blane describes his exeperience of observing a Learning Rounds in this week’s TESS. Six teachers, a QIO and Margaret Orr from our team spent a day at St Winnings Primary School in North Ayrshire observing and discussing – always using the descriptive voice of course.

Read the full article here.

http://www.tes.co.uk/article.aspx?storycode=6048112

The 3 day event in Birmingham had again as its theme “Seizing Success”. The delegates came from across the UK and abroad and represented colleagues from evey sphere of education and partner agencies. The highlights of the conference can be sourced on the National College website and may give you food for thought on aspects of leadership and the challenges which the new financial orbit present to us all but school and service leaders in particular. There was a specific focus on the need for heightened collegiality in the world of CPD and it was heartening to be able to see that much of the collaborative work between the CPD Team , local authorities and schools ( on-line connections CPDFind /CPDReflect/GLOW ; FRH and Learning Rounds)chimes with the latest educational thinking and delivers it in an accessible and meaningful way.

The Scottish Government’s Summer School on Educational Leadership is now in its 4^th year.

From August 4^th to 6^th of this year, teams from local authorities and national organisations will be addressing the issue of System-wide change in the context of Curriculum for Excellence.

 Participating teams will be supported, not to say challenged, by radical thinkers and doers in the area of leadership:

• John Seddon of Vanguard, who help organisations change from ‘command and control’ to ‘systems-thinking’ leadership
• Mick Waters of the Curriculum Foundation. This not-for-profit organisation’s starting point is the conviction that there is a universal core at the heart of every successful curriculum
• David Jackson and Denis Mongon of the Innovations Unit, a not-for-profit organisation who support the strategic leadership of change
• David Hopkins of Institute of Education, University of London

The National CPD Team will be opening up parts of the 3-day event on Glow using Glowmeet and the CPDLead professional community on Glow. Please feel free to express an interest in this unique event on Glow.

You will be contacted with more details in July. 

• More details on the CPDFind opportunity – The Summer School on Glow
• You can see highlights from the previous 3 Summer Schools on the Summer School website