Alma Harris conference in Vilnius

1. Distributed School Leadership Professor Alma Harris

3. “ How do we ensure success for all students in all settings?… “

4. How do we transform our school systems so all young people can succeed? Page 6

5. Leadership and Transformation

7. Impact of Leadership on Learning (Leithwood et al, 2007) Leadership is second only to teaching and learning in its impact on student learning. Page 6

12. So Leadership Matters Page 6

14. Individual Leadership?

15. Good to Great : Jim Collins Level 1 Capable individual Level 2 Team manager Level 3 Competent manager Level 4 Effective Leader Level 5 Executive

26. Leadership for transformation is distributed and lateral

43. What does it look like in schools? Structures Roles Teams Ways of Working Learning

46. But it looks Different in Different Schools

48. How is Leadership Distributed? Kanes Hill Primary School- Southampton Distributed Leadership by Design ‘Distributed leadership is not just a nice thing to do it’s an absolute necessary thing to do’

58. ACTIVITY 4 What are the barriers to Distributed Leadership? iers

65. ACTIVITY 4 Self Assessment Questionnaire

66. How do you distribute Leadership in Practice?

67. VIDEO CLIPS

68. Reflection and Discussion

70. Professional Learning Communities within, between and across Schools (SEF, 2008) High performing schools help teachers improve instruction by learning from each other. (McKinsey 2010)

77. An effective professional learning community has the capacity to promote and sustain the learning of all professionals in the school community with the collective purpose of enhancing pupil learning . Bolam et al (2005)

79. Features of a PLC (Harris and Jones, 2009) Distributed Leadership Focus on Learner Needs Attention to Instructional Core Enquiry driven- outcomes lead to change in practice

80. 2 Key Principles (Harris and Jones, 2009)

82. Building Blocks of PLCs (Harris and Jones, 2009)

85. Task Where would you place your school on the PLC continuum? What needs to happen in your school for teachers to work together more effectively? What are the challenges to this way of working and how may these be overcome?

89. Harris and Jones (2010)

90. Phases of establishing a PLC Harris and Jones 2010 Establish Enquire Extend

92. So what? Outcomes result in change : Teachers Instructional Practice Pupils’ learning experiences /outcomes

94. Pupils’ Focus (School Effectiveness FrameworkWalWales 2008)

95. Pupil Leadership – Why? ‘ Giving every single child the chance to be the best they can be, whatever their talent or background’

96. School Effectiveness Committee Health and Eco School Council Play leaders Peer Mediators

97. Progress so far Moodle- VLE Assessment for Learning PDAs/ Mini Laptops Topic choice

99. Progress so far Enrichment Weeks Garden design Health week Fair Trade Biodiversity week Medieval week

100. Progress so far Beyond the classroom Trips Visitors Clubs

102. Examples from yr 2 and yr 6 Learning Log

105. So is there a Blueprint For DL?

106. Vision

107. Transparency

108. Making Connections: Relationships

109. Closing gaps

112. You can accomplish anything in life, provided you do not mind who gets the credit (Truman)

114. http://www.almaharris.co.uk