Keynote by A/Prof Scott Eacott for the Steiner Education Australia GLaM (Governance, Leadership and Marketing) Seminar 09 September 2020

1. From MySchool to Our School
Steiner Education Australia 2020 GLaM Seminar
09 September 2020
@ScottEacott

3. Amy, principal
We are a really good school. We
are effective. We say we will
educate the kids in a holistic
manner, and that is what we do.
Although we are answerable to
our political masters, at the same
time you have to be true to
yourself and enact what we see
as a good education.
Eacott, S. (2013). Asking questions of leadership: using social theory for more than critique. Leading & Managing, 19(1), 18-31.
Aurora Southern Highlands Steiner School

4. Articulate
your
purpose(s) of
schooling
Locate your
position in
relation to
alternatives
Monitoring
coherence of
position and
action
Recognising
and valuing
diversity in
approaches
Writing,
telling and
sharing the
narrative
NARRATIVECOHERENCECLARITY

5. 1. The purpose(s)
of schooling
You cannot tell the story of
your school without an
explicit and clear articulation
of what you are about.
Eacott, S., & Niesche, R. (2020). Educational and instructional leadership. In S.J.
Courtney, H.M. Gunter, R. Niesche, & T. Trujillo (Eds.), Understanding educational
leadership: critical perspectives and approaches. London: Bloomsbury.

6. 2. Understanding alternatives
Professionalism is built on locating your position
in relation to others as the basis for reasoned
and defensible actions

7. 3. Coherence
Teaching
Learning
Supervision
Meetings
Recruitment
Messaging
Eacott, S. (2019). Empowering educators through flipped school leadership? In D. Netolicky, J. Andrews & C. Paterson (Eds.) Flip the system Australia: What
matters in education (pp. 189-197). New York, NY: Routledge.

8. 4. Different not better
We are not competing with the school down the road.
We are not better, we are different. Together, we are
making the town and the world a better place by what
we do.
Principal

9. 5. From MySchool to Our School
The kids that the school has produced have helped to
make the Smithville community what it is. Everyone
says hello, everyone is friendly, that is just the Smithville
nature and I think that has something to do with the
school. It is the legacy of learning and caring nature.
Community Member

10. Orana Steiner
School

11. THANK YOU!