This document summarizes a master class on future schools and leadership challenges presented by Stephen Murgatroyd. The class covered topics like foresight and understanding leadership, key factors shaping the future of education, the transition to more personalized learning models, and six major challenges for schools. Murgatroyd discussed different leadership theories and characteristics of renaissance leadership. He also outlined ten global challenges for educational leaders, including work-life balance, sustaining teacher engagement, strategic focus, building communities of practice, and developing leadership throughout schools.

1. Master Class:
Future Schools and the Challenge of
Leadership
Master Chef : Stephen Murgatroyd, PhD

2. SIX SIGNS OF NOTE!

9. Foresight and the Future
Understanding Leadership
Leadership Within and
Across
Top Ten Challenges

10. STRATEGIC FORESIGHT AND THE
FUTURE SCHOOL

11. Key Factors for the Future
(2030, 2020, Right Now)
• Demographic Change
• Finance for Education
• Economy and the Implications for Curriculum
• Technology and Pedagogy
• Environmental Change and Citizenship
• Community Change and Development
• Identity – Student, Teacher, Parent

12. We’re in the midst of a significa nt
change.A..
In Between
Time
Time and the Investment of Energy and Effort
SystemMaturity
Industrial
Form of
Schooling / 3rd
Way Policies
21st Century for
of Personalized
Learning in
School and
Community / 4th
Way Policies
Paradigm Shi
The Future School in the In Between
Time

13. 6 Key Challenges for Schools
• Building adaptive capacity and resilience
• Equity of outcomes – a great school for all
• Strengthening collaborative professional autonomy and
building the learning design capacity of teachers
• Securing the conditions of practice needed for effective,
engaged and mindful learning
• Enabling leaders to lead at the level of the school and the
student voice to be heard
• The challenge of public assurance

14. The 2 Solitudes of Educational Policy
GERM
• Standardized curriculum –
STEM, 21st Century Skills
• Frequent testing
• De-professionalized
teaching
• Market based systems
• Competition
Equity Movement
• Liberal curriculum – STEAM
and social science
• Assessment for learning
• Collaborative professional
autonomy
• Public systems
• Collaboration

15. Lets Remind Ourselves..

16. UNDERSTANDING LEADERSHIP

17. 10 Leadership Theories in 5 Minutes

18. No Doubt You Have Studied..

19. Renaissance Leadership

20. Six Characteristics
• Practice Personal Mastery
• Have a glocal mindset
• Practice cross-boundary learning
• Think Back from the Future
• Lead Systematic Change
• Drive performance with a Passion

21. LEADERSHIP WITHIN THE SCHOOL &
THE SYSTEM

22. STARTING A MOVEMENT

23. The Three Big Roles

24. This what I see Jean P Stiles do…
• Build and empower teacher
teams..
• Build and empower supports for
learners and learning
• Enable the student voice to be
heard
• Connect to others around the
world..collaborate
• Focus, focus, focus on equity as
an ambition in terms of outcomes
• Never let a crisis go to waste..

25. Strategy as Simple Rules
• Priority Rules
• “How To” Rules
• Boundary Rules
• Timing Rules
• Exit Rules

26. Noise, Black Swans, Distractions

28. Murgatroyd’s 7 Rules for Leadership Survival
• Forgiveness is easier to get than permission.
• You cannot cross a chasm in two small leaps. Bold is good. Be bold often,
people get used to it. Stay within the rules – but just!
• Never let a good crisis go to waste. Use them as the basis for innovation
and change.
• The future is not a straight line from the past – so bend the line often.
• Make your expectations clear and then empower and engage and let the
team do the work. Think not distributed leadership, but renaissance
leadership everywhere – students, teachers, administration.
• If in doubt, trust your instincts – the brain can often get in the way.
• Less is more.

29. TOP TEN CHALLENGES

30. Before we Get to the Top 10
• What can we STOP doing?
• What do we need to significantly IMPROVE?
• What do we need to REDESIGN?
• What do we need to START?

31. Some Resources
http://www.teachers.ab.ca/ go to Research Publications and explore

32. Your Top 10…

33. Global Top 10
• Work-Life Balance for Leaders in School Systems.
• Sustaining meaningful engagement with teachers.
• Staying strategically focused – “don't sweat the small stuff”!
• Finding the evidence base for decisions within the school and not
being too concerned with PISA, TIMMS or other standardized
measures over which teachers and schools have very little
influence. What are the indicators you need to show that you are
making progress and what predictive measures can you use?
• Building effective communities of practice networks locally,
nationally and globally. Be a hub and a spoke.

34. • Finding and keeping a mentor, coach and guide – no one can be a
leader without help: asking for help when you need it is a sign of
strength.
• Finding time to read and reflect. Most leaders subscribe to
periodicals and buy books – they don't read them. READ!
• Building leadership throughout the school and empowering
teachers as leaders.
• Understanding your own leadership development needs.
• Remembering to celebrate, have fun and enjoy this work – life is
too short!

35. Thank You..
murgatroydstephen@gmail.com
+1 (780) 993 7784 sms
@murgatroydsteph = Twitter
Web site: stephenmurgatroyd.com