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Summer School summary

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This (rather long) post summarises most of the links to our Leadership Summer School. As more links appear, we will update this post. Please share with us your own thoughts, experiences and links for the event!

The ‘official site’

You can get more information (including the programme) on the  Summer School site. Copies of all the Powerpoints will be available here soon!

Twitter

Before, during and after the 4 days, some colleagues used Twitter to discuss the leadership topics. If you want to see their links, thoughts and comments, here’s what to do:

1.       Go to http://tinyurl.com/lss09latest

2.       Read the comments made. (Please note for those unfamiliar with Twitter, each comment must be less than 140 characters. This can sometimes lead to perceptions that commenters are a tad brusque!)

3.       Click on blue links with http:// in front of it to follow a link

4.       Click on blue @ to see who is making the comment (eg@cpdscotsman will take you to Con’s Twitter account)

 

 Monday

Chair – Annette Bruton, HMIE

10.30 – 11.00

 

Creativity, Leadership, CfE – Setting the Scene.
Are schools killing creativity?


Bruce Robertson
Director of Education, Learning and Leisure, Aberdeenshire

11.00 – 12.30

 

Bob Fryer Department of Health

13.30 – 14.00

 

Fiona Hyslop Cabinet Secretary for Education & Lifelong Education

14.00 – 16.10

 

Adaptive Leadership


Irwin Turbitt
University of Warwick


Marie Lindsay St Mary’s College, Northern Ireland


Dennise Sommerville Headteacher, Dumfries & Galloway Council

16.15 – 16.30

 

Chair’s Remarks

     
     
     
     
     
     

 

Tuesday

Chair – Tony Townsend

09.30 – 09.45

 

Chair’s remarks

09.45 – 10.45

 

Jim Spillane Northwestern University, Illinois, USA

     

11.15 – 12.30

 

Jim Spillane

12.30 – 12.35

 

Creative Space

 

13.30 – 14.30

 

Jim Spillane

14.30 – 14.35

 

Graham Thomson – Setting the Context

14.35 – 16.15

 

CfE – Here’s what we’re doing. Successes, challenges, issues. CfE Round Tables


Ollie Bray LTS

Anne Paterson Q10, Argyll & Bute Council


Wendy Laing & Lorna Sim Highland Council


Phil Black Bell Baxter High School, Fife

16.15 – 16.30

 

Chair’s Remarks

     
     

 

Wednesday

Chair – Frank Lennon

09.30 – 10.30

 

Steve Munby National College of School Leadership in England

     

11.00 – 11.05

 

Creative Space

11.05 – 13.00

 

Magnificent sevens “My big idea for CfE/Scottish education”

·         Do Coyle

·         Raymond O’Hare Microsoft

·         Tom Hamilton GTCS

·         David Miller St Ninians, Bishopbriggs

·         Mhairi Stratton Humbie Primary School

·         Con Morris National CPD Team

·         Dennise Sommerville St Michael’s Primary School

·         Rona Lindsay South Ayrshire

     

14.00 – 16.10

 

How we come up with good ideas

Ewan Macintosh Channel 4

16.10 – 16.15

 

Creative Space

16.15 – 16.30

 

Chair’s Remarks

17.00 – 19.30

 

Optional Event
TeachMeet on Leadership Carlton Hotel

 

Thursday

Chair – Michael Kellett

08.30 – 09.30

 

Breakfast Process Group

09.30 – 09.45

 

Chair’s remarks

09.45 – 11.00

 

Cliff Dennett

     

11.15 – 12.15

 

Denese Belchetz, The Ontario Experience

12.15 – 13.00

 

Buffet lunch & process group

     

13.15 – 14.15

 

Process Group Presentations

14.15 – 15.00

 

Jim Conroy, University of Glasgow

 

 

Close

 

Leadmeet09

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Slideshow courtesy of @mikecoulter

During last week’s Summer School on Leadership, I was privileged to host a TeachMeet ‘unconference’ on the broad topic of educational leadership. If you haven’t heard of them before, an unconference is where the participants take charge. There are no special guests, keynote speakers or even an agenda!

Only a few weeks before the event a blank page was posted on the Teachmeet web site.  Participants were urged to sign up to deliver a micro-presentation (no more than 7 minutes), a nano-presentation (no more than 2 minutes) or just to ‘lurk’. Distributive leadership in action or sheer madness expecting educational staff to give up a holiday evening to attend a CPD event?

Word of the event spread through email, blogs and Twitter. The online conversation included suggestions of topics for debate by a number of colleagues including @frankcrawford of HMIE. By the evening of the event, we had a sell-out crowd (more than 60), generous sponsors, and more speakers than we could fit in.

The format was a mixture of group activity, learning conversations and short thought-pieces. Group activities included:

The speakers were randomly selected using a tool from classtools.net . Sadly, many were willing but only a few were chosen! The lucky ones included David Noble, Margaret Alcorn, Frank Crawford, Gary Johnstone and David Pyper (all the way from Ontario, Canada!)

Even the unlucky ones get a say thanks to the power of online technology. Here’s Ian Stuart’s presentation on Situational Leadership

The online aspect continued throughout the event. Some people attended remotely using webconferencing technology set up by @parslad . In addition, many attendees ‘tweeted’ their comments, asked questions and  posted pictures (thanks @tessawatson).

The last part of the event was the ‘show and tell’. You can see a selection of the Lego Leaders here (thanks @annemcghee). Other collaborative works, such as the ‘Leadership Blues lyrics’ and ‘The French Revolution in 20 seconds movie clip’ are awaiting permissions and legal advice! ;)

The next Teachmeet is a fringe event to the Scottish Learning Festival. I would recommend it!

If you want to know more, or if you attended #Leadmeet09, please leave a comment and share your thoughts.

Con (aka @cpdscotsman)

Sorry you missed the Summer School?

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- Well don’t miss the next major event in the School Leadership calendar. There are still a few places left for the SELMAS Leadership Conference in Stirling Management  Centre on Friday September 11th.

The theme is “The Impact of Change” and you can reserve a place by contacting selmasbooking@st-georges.edin.sch.uk.

 

 

Jim Conroy’s closing address to Summer School 09

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Colleagues from Ontario at Summer School 09

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One of the exercises from day 4 of the Summer School 09

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 Cliff Bennett, as part of his workshop on innovation, asked us to turn our intentions on their head by moving the verb and the object. These are the fascinating results:

Instead of . . .

Try . . .

How do we involve more parents?

How do we parent more involvement?

How do we act on ineffectiveness?

How do we affect action?

How do we improve our leadership?

How do we lead improvement?

How do we make learning more enjoyable?

How do we enjoy more learning?

How do we connect ideas?

How do ideas connect?

How do we motivate teachers

How do teachers motivate?

How do we remove inadequate educators?

How do inadequate educators remove themselves?

How do we manage schools?

How do we school managers’ lead?

How do you enjoy learning?

How do you learn enjoying?

How do we train more teachers?

How do we teach more trainers?

How do we inspire more leaders?

How do we lead more inspiration?

 

 

 

 

Instead of . . .

Try . . .

How do we build partnerships?

How do we partner more builders?

How do we connect more leaders?

How do we lead more connectors?

How do we teach more students?

How do we study more teachers?

How do we create leaders?

How do we lead creativity?

How do we teach our children well?

How well do our children teach?

How do we motivate our staff

How do we staff our motivators?

How do we value our stakeholders?

How do we stakeholder our values?

How do we promote creativity?

How do we create promotion?

How do we best motivate students?

How do we study the best motivators?

How do we improve leadership?

How do we lead improvement?

How do we train our leaders?

How do we lead our trainers?

How do we achieve more creativity

How do we create more achievement?

How do we support staff

How do we staff support?

How do we aim for perfection?

How do we perfect our aims?

How do teachers improve learning?

How do learners improve teaching?

How do we achieve smaller class sizes?

What do smaller class sizes achieve?

How do we develop reluctant leaders?

How do we lead reluctant developers?

How do we make learning more fun?

How do we make fun about learning?

How do we make learners more open?

How do we open more learners?

How do we improve attainment?

How do we attain improvement?

How do we lead learning?

How do we learn leading?

How do we learn internationally?

How do we internationalize learning?

How do we improve joint working?

How do we work to improve the joints?

How do we get better at falling?

How do we fall to get better?

How do we maintain focus whilst being creative?

How do we ensure creativity whilst remaining focused?

How do we make learning more interesting?

How do we interest more learners?

How do we engage all our learners?

How do we learn how to engage?

 

 

 

 

Instead of . . .

Try . . .

How do we motivate more teachers?

How do we teach more motivation?

How do we develop the capacity?

How to capacitate more developers?

How do we allow for innovation?

How do we innovate for mission?

How do we improve our buildings?

How can we build for improvements?

How can we teach more children?

How can children teach more?

How can we build capacity in leaders?

How can leaders build capacity?

How do we encourage teachers to take more risks?

How does taking risks encourage teachers?

How does consistency improve learning and teaching?

How does learning and teaching improve consistency?

How do you encourage problem solving in headteachers?

How do headteachers encourage problem solving?

How does sharing good practice improve learning and teaching?

How does learning and teaching improve sharing practice?

How do we switch more kids on?

How do kids switch on?

How do we raise achievement?

How is achievement raised?

How do we build better classrooms?

How do classrooms build better learning?

How do we get teachers to talk to each other?

How do teachers get to talk?

How do we ensure Quality in our teaching and learning?

Does our teaching and learning ensure quality?

How do we make trouble?

How do we trouble make?

How do we manage budgets?

How do budgets manage us?

How do we create more time?

How can time be used more creatively?

How do we lead more creativity?

How do we create more leaders?

How do we learn more enjoyably?

How do we enjoy more learning?

How do we improve our schools?

How do we school our improvements?

How do we ensure self-evaluation has more impact?

How do we impact to ensure self-evaluation?

How do we ensure consistency in teaching?

How do we teach consistency?

How do we know our schools?

How do our schools know?

How do we improve student success?

How do we succeed in student improvement?

How do we engage and motivate all staff in professional learning?

How do we learn to motivate and engage all professionals?

How do we improve the quality of teaching?

How do teach quality improvement?

 

 

 

 

 

Instead of . . .

Try . . .

How do we develop the capacities to deliver the new curriculum?

How do we develop the new capacities to deliver the curriculum?

How do we staff our schools?

How do we school our staff?

How do we engage more learners

How do we learn more engagement?

How do we improve more successes?

How do we succeed in our improvements?

How do we fund our work?

How do we work our funds?

How do we achieve consistent good practice

How do we practice consistent achievement?

How do we encourage attendance?

How to we attend to encouragement?

How do we create more trust?

How do we trust more creativity?

How do we challenge children more?

How do children challenge more?

How do we facilitate more leadership opportunities?

How do we lead more facilitation opportunities?

How do we create more ideas?

How do we idea more creativity?

How do we make leadership more interesting?

How do we make more interesting leaders?

How do we move extraneous pillars?

How do we build movement?

How do we get more people on board with CfE?

How does CfE get people on board?

How do students learn best?

How do best students learn?

How do teachers support learning?

How does learning support teachers?

My big idea for CfE / Scottish education – 4

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This is a presentation from Do Coyle of University of Aberdeen

The Big Ideas from Summer School 09

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All the participants at the Leadership Summer School were asked to contribute their big idea for CfE and Scottish education. At the behest of the National CPD Team, Anne McGhee added images from Flickr : Creative Commons to create this slideshow for the conference.

Please feel free to:

  •  link to this presentation and use it in your own work
  • tell us your big idea for education (and if possible an appropriate image)
  • copies of the original available on request from cpdanswers@ltscotland.org.uk

Steve Munby on day 3 of Summer School 09

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Tony Townsend’s end-of-day 2 of Summer School 09

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