This document summarizes the key topics from a leadership conference. It discusses the challenges of leadership in a changing world, including increased responsibilities after inspections, demographic changes, and building teacher skills. It questions how to attract people to work in schools and refill reservoirs of hope and joy. It also addresses identifying student progress, priorities, ignoring noise, and schools as places where people can learn and grow.

1. Leadership in a Post
Everything World
EOS Conference
28th April 2015

2. Stephen Tierney
Executive Director - BEBCMAT

4. Photo Credit: Jason Devaun via Flickr cc
Leaders Keep their
Eyes on the Horizon

5. Post Local Authority:
Building Capacity
(in Complex Times)

7. Acknowledgement: A Node in the Learning Network
The LAN & The WAN

8. Post Ofsted:
Increased
Responsibility
Photo Credit: Micolo J via Flickr cc

11. Post Election:
The
Demographic
Time Bomb

13. Why Would Anyone
Want to Work in
Your School? Do You?
No Really?

14. Post Lesson Grades:
Building Teacher Mastery

15. Developing
Shared
Understanding

17. Post Levels:
It’s a Curriculum Not a Data Issue

18. “Our evidence suggests that the assumptions of
many pupil tracking systems and Ofsted inspectors
are probably incorrect. The vast majority of pupils
do not make linear progress between each Key
Stage, let alone across all Key Stages. This means
that identifying pupils as “on track” or “off target”
based on assumptions of linear progress over
multiple years is likely to be wrong.”
Acknowledgement: Education Datalab (2015) Measuring Pupil Progress Involved More than Taking a Straight Line

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How’s Your Reservoir of
Hope & Joy Been of Late?

23. Noise or Necessity
• What is noise what is
necessary?
• What noise could you
ignore?
• What would is your
overriding priority for the
next twelve months?
Two Years? Five Years?
Acknowledgement: Essentialism: The
Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown

24. A People Place (William J. Crocker)
If this is not a place where tears are understood,
Where do I go to cry?
If this is not a place where my spirits can take wing,
Where do I go to fly?
If this is not a place where my questions can be asked,
Where do I go to seek?
If this is not a place where my feelings can be heard,
Where do I go to speak?
If this is not a place where you’ll accept me as I am,
Where can I go to be?
If this is not a place where I can try to learn and grow,
Where can I be just me?

25. Photo Credit: Eustaquio Santimano
How Will You Refill
Your Reservoir?