22 July – Further Unpacking: Principles behind Successful Practices
This session picked up from the last one by exploring not just what worked well but why it worked. By looking at the principles behind the successful practices you have identified and by understanding any potential barriers that might be present, you will develop a plan for more wide-spread adoption of these promising practices amongst…
Read More24 June – Drawing together: Leadership for sustainability: What structures and relations need to change?
In the final workshop for this term our focus was in the context of coming out of the lockdown crisis. It was timely to investigate the need for consistency that feeds into leadership practices that bring a sense of well-being through stability. We took a pause to reflect on how we might bring a sense…
Read More3 June – Equity and values in Action Part two: Leadership inquiry into a change in season
Our guiding question for this online session was: What has the Covid-19 experience exposed you to, that you didn’t see before, especially in relation to equity? Linking with 6 May workshop: Dilemmas and decision-making Part One: Leadership Inquiry in the ‘dark’? In preparation for when you meet in your school team to view this session:…
Read More6 May – Dilemmas and decision-making Part 1: Leadership inquiry in the ‘dark’?
This is the first of a two-part leadership inquiry focus on the dilemmas schools are facing. Part One, Leadership inquiry in the dark, focuses on the dilemmas associated with ‘wicked problems’ we face due to an external, unanticipated, disruptive (and ongoing?) event, and decision-making. Part Two (June 3rd), Leadership inquiry into a change of season,…
Read More15 April – What Really Matters Now
This workshop splits into 3 segments as we consider “What Really Matters Now” 3 weeks into Covid-19 lockdown. Maggie Ogram, Howard Youngs and Cathy Wylie as a team co-facilitate the following material. Segment 1: Coaching to support learning, teaching and leading adaptably: Making it real We introduce this workshop by revisiting the belief in coaching…
Read More4 March – Ways of being’ that enable leadership to support impactful professional learning
This session focused on some of the ‘ways of being’ that enable leaders to support effective professional learning in their school. Drawing on research on the development of adaptive expertise, you had the opportunity to self-select into groups to explore what ‘ways of being’ such as adopting an evaluative inquiry stance , being agentic, and…
Read More19 February – TRANSPARENCY – sustaining and developing collaborative practices for 2020
Collaboration threads through all of the leadership practices and settings identified by ELN schools at the close of our workshops in 2019. Themes included schools’ recognition of the need for practices such as strong relational trust, connectedness, critical collaborative inquiry, clarity and creating opportunities. Sitting beneath these is the crucial need for transparency. In this…
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