Friday 21 June 2013 - AITSL presents an exciting opportunity for school leaders and/or leadership teams to work with Prof Alma Harris and Dr Michelle Jones, Institute of Educational Leadership, University of Malaya. The workshop titled Distributed Leadership Matters: Perspectives, Practicalities and Potential will extend your thinking on distributed leadership and leading collaborative practice in your school.

1. Distributed Leadership Matters:
Perspectives, Practicalities and Potential
Prof Alma Harris & Dr Michelle Jones
Institute of Educational Leadership, University of Malaya
Workshop outline
The session is designed to extend your thinking about distributed
leadership and leading collaborative practice in your school.
Exploration of the relationship between distributed or shared
leadership and organisational improvement and consideration of
how collaborative professional practice is best led and facilitated
within and between schools, will be a focus.
Key Themes
• distributed leadership and organisational improvement
• leading collaborative professional practice for high performance
• how to make collaboration happen in schools and school to school
networks
The session will have a practical focus. It will revisit and build on
the ideas presented in Alma and Michelle’s Local Leadership
Conference workshops (but this is not a pre-requisite for
attendance).
This workshop is open to individual school leaders or leadership
teams. Places are limited – register now.
Details
Cost: $50 per person
When: Friday 21 June 2013 - 9.30 - 3:30pm
Where: 440 Collins Street, Melbourne
RSVP: By Friday 9 June 2013
Travel arrangements are the responsibility of participants.
Email localleadership@aitsl.edu.au for registration or enquiries.

2. Prof Alma Harris
Institute of Educational Leadership
University of Malaya
Institute of Education, London
Prof Alma Harris’ current role is Director of the
Institute of Educational Leadership, University of
Malaya. Her research work focuses on organisational
change and development. Alma is internationally
known for her work on school improvement, focusing particularly on
improving schools in challenging circumstances.
Alma has written extensively about leadership in schools and she is an
expert on the theme of distributed leadership. Her book ‘Distributed
Leadership in Schools: Developing the Leaders of Tomorrow’ (2008) has
been translated into several languages. Alma’s newest book ‘Distributed
Leadership Matters: Perspectives, Practicalities and Potential’ will be
published shortly.
Alma also works with the process of system wide reform. In 2013 she
took up the Presidency of the International Congress of School
Effectiveness and School Improvement (ICSEI).
Dr Michelle Jones
Institute of Educational Leadership
University of Malaya
Dr Michelle Jones has over 28 years experience
in the education sector. Michelle’s most recent
substantive position was that of principal of a large
school in one of the highest areas of deprivation in
South Wales, UK. In 2008, Michelle became a
School Effectiveness Associate for the Welsh Government and
subsequently a Professional Education Adviser assisting with teacher
and principal professional learning in over 2,000 schools.
Most recently, Michelle has been working with government agencies in
England, Russia and Australia to contribute to the design and delivery of
their professional learning programs and her current role is in
development and internationalisation at the Institute of Educational
Leadership, University of Malaya.