This document summarizes a workshop on courageous leadership for times of turbulence in education. It discusses the challenges schools currently face in areas like curriculum, pedagogy, assessment, and resources. These challenges represent a transition period between the traditional industrial model of schooling and new 21st century personalized learning approaches. The workshop helps leaders understand these challenges, identify the biggest challenges in their own schools, and think about how to respond with courageous leadership. This involves stopping or improving current practices, redesigning aspects of the school, and starting new initiatives while focusing on equity, student success, teacher support, and community engagement.

1. Courageous
Renaissance Leadership
- Leadership for a Time
of Turbulence
Workshop 1
Stephen Murgatroyd, PhD FBPsS FRSA

2. What this workshop will help with ….
 Understanding the challenges of the “in-
between time”
 Identifying 5 big challenges faced by
schools and school systems
 Identifying the barriers to effective
leadership with respect to these
challenges
 Understanding what courageous
leadership looks like

3. The In Between Time
21st Century
Personalized
System Maturity
Learning in
Industrial In School and
Form of Between Community /
Schooling Time 4th Way
/ 3rd Way Policies
Policies
Paradigm Shift
Time and the Investment of Energy
and Effort

4. “In Between Time”
Challenges
 What should we teach? The Curriculum Challenge.
 How should we teach? Pedagogy and Learning
Challenge.
 Who should teach and support learning? The
Professionalism Challenge
 How will we assess learning ? The Assessment /
Accountability Challenge.
 Who decides which technologies (if any) we should use?
The Appropriateness Challenge.
 How do we pay for education? The public policy /
resource challenge.

5. But our response to…
 these challenges only
have meaning in the
context of the school,
teachers and learners –
it’s the only place in the
end that matters.
 these challenges shape
the nature of schools as
cultures, experiences
and performers.
 these challenges shapes
the future of our
communities

6. Framework for All Decisions
A Great School for ALL
 No student should feel  Students get the help
alone, lost or out of place they need when they
in our school need it, not just when
we chose to make it
 Each student will find a available
route through school that
maximizes their chances  Teachers are supported,
of success in their terms enabled and resourced
 Equity does not mean  Curriculum is nimble,
that everyone is treated adaptable
the same – to achieve  Instruction is
equity we need to treat differentiated and
everyone as a person enabling

7. Identify Your Schools 3
Biggest Challenges
Activity 1

8. What Do Leaders Need to Do
to Respond to these
Challenges?
Activity 2

9. What should we Stop,
Improve, Redesign and/or
Start?
Activity 3
Think: Personal, School, Teams within the School

10. Renaissance Leadership
 Practice Personal Mastery
 Apply a Glocal Mindset
 Practice Cross Boundary Learning
 Think Back from the Future
 Lead Systematic Change
 Drive Performance with a Passion

11. Key Roles and Understanding
Think
Ahead
Focused Capability
Communication Based
Management
Leadership
Lead Deliver
Across Within

12. 5 Lessons for Leadership
 No one else is coming – its your
collaborative action that counts.
 Collaboration and engagement are the
DNA of the knowledge economy.
 Authentic listening to teachers, students,
parents and the community provides the
answer.
 Its never just about the resources.
 Culture, focus and alignment will drive
your response.

13. This is a VERY good book..