CPD Team

Over the last two weeks, Frank Crawford of HMIE has been kindly sharing some leadership thoughts and links on his Twitter account ( @frankcrawford ). For those of us going to LeadMeet in Edinburgh on the 29th July or the International Summer School on Leadership, they are valuable thought-pieces. I have taken the liberty of reproducing them below.

• @mcleod RT My #necc09 Effective leadership in an era of disruptive innovation. http://is.gd/1×9gD 
• Leadership in education needs to be learning-focused. http://tinyurl.com/lcgspb
•  Principles of leadership for learning. http://tinyurl.com/mqbd9w
• Great leaders spend time on the dancefloor as well as on the balcony watching the dance. How good is your dancing?
• Check out posts on #leadershipday09
• And it is all teased out in The Journey to Excellence.
• For best outcomes, leaders develop the core business (learning) vision, partnerships/networks, people and ethos/culture.
•  http://tinyurl.com/na46f7 For education leaders, every minute is a learning opportunity – and every minute counts.
• Some school film clips on leadership. http://tinyurl.com/mdcq9g
• Leadership purposefully distributed essential for transformation, p13. http://tinyurl.com/na46f7 http://tinyurl.com/lkuclp
• @krysiaS Are most school leaders ‘risk takers’? Great question for #leadmeet09.
• Leadership purposefully distributed essential for transformation, p13. http://tinyurl.com/na46f7 http://tinyurl.com/lkuclp
• Check out http://tinyurl.com/n3wma4 5:28 PM Jul 6th from web
• Leadership and exhilaration. http://tinyurl.com/qw5ov8
• @hambudge Developing curriculum IS changing pedagogy – maybe not only using best practice, but thinking about future practice.
•  One school’s leadership academy. http://tinyurl.com/l6dody
• Ninety percent of leaders’ decisions don’t matter. It’s spotting the ten percent that do matter that does matter.
• Literacy and numeracy are thinking skills. Great leaders lead learning in these skills.
• The second of two attributes of leadership is humility – that you are still a learner too! (Jim Collins).
• The first of two attributes of leadership is professional drive – integrity – accepting nothing but the best (Jim Collins).

You can find other thoughts by searching for #leadmeet09 on search engines like Google.

This is a guest post from colleagues at HMIE

 ‘Learning Together: Opening up Learning’ draws together themes, features and characteristics of effective improvement through self-evaluation, and descriptions of good practice. It is a reference point for teachers who are working together to improve the impact of their work and to plan for the changes which will be necessary as Curriculum for Excellence is adopted.

It can be used alongside the many examples of good practice published at www.journeytoexcellence.org.uk, the quality indicators and illustrations described in ‘How good is our school?’, ‘The Child at the Centre’, and ‘How good is our community learning and development?’, and the series of self-evaluation guides and portraits published at www.hmie.gov.uk.

HMIE publication: Learning Together: Opening up learning

Journey to Excellence is an excellent, online CPD resource which covers 10 dimensions of excellence with a comprehensive set of video and downloadable think-pieces. Look out for the specialist CPD trails through the materials!

CPDFind links

1. The J2E  provider complete list

2. look also at the associated providers on the CPD Register; HMIE Publications and HMIE Good Practice

One of the partners in the CPD network, HMIE has just published their third corporate plan , covering the years 2008 to 2011. It has been drawn up following a series of internal discussions, consultation with a range of stakeholders, and discussed with and approved by Scottish Ministers. It sets out in broad terms the work which HMIE plan to undertake over the next three years to achieve our aims.

It’s good to see a continuing emphasis on building capacity through CPD and self-evaluation and an explicit commitment to online technology as one means to do both!

This is a guest post from Roddy Stuart who acted as a facilitator at the event

How DTS, GTCS, HMIE and SQA are currently using CPD online.

Determined to Succeed (Jean MacMillan)
Jean had recently had the chance to speak to a group of young people who were firmly in the ‘More choices, more chances’ category and who are near to leaving school.  They share a considerable uncertainty about their future, with one exception.  Many of the aspects which the school thinks are preparing them for life Read more…

http://www.hmie.gov.uk/documents/publication/exo.pdf

This report published today  looks at the experience of those young people who broaden their learning and develop their essential skills by undertaking school-college partnership programmes. Its primary aim is to identify what makes these programmes successful for young people and what needs to be done better. It is intended to help schools, colleges and local authorities to build on key messages of success to further improve the learning experience for all. 

Section 7.4 deals with professional development and support issues for staff involved in this partnership working.

Peter McNaughton of HMIE opened the CPD network meeting with a presentation and workshop on ‘Self evaluation, Improvement and INEA2′.