There is a growing emphasis on school leaders’ use of data to make informed-decisions about improvement. Both the National Educational Leadership Priorities and the Leadership Strategy identify the use of data as a key driver/capability for improving the quality of teaching and learning. Gathering and sharing data during the pandemic was also important for schools…

Have you ever wanted to introduce something new in your school but been faced with what feels like ‘resistance to change’. Do you wonder why people sometimes say they are keen to try something new but nothing actually changes? In this session we explored how perceptions of risk can get in the way of change…

Middle leaders play a crucial role in shaping collaborative decision-making processes. They look out from their ‘team’ as an advocate and look in to their ‘team’ as a shaper of collaborative processes. With an acknowledgement of perceived capacity levels (our last session of term one), we looked into three interrelated considerations regarding collaborative decision-making: classifying…

At the end of the second workshop, we asked how you get a ‘measure’ of well-being and capacity across the staff and students. Being well means we are more likely to learn well, individually, collectively and collaboratively. As we approach the latter part of the first term – How much ‘giving capacity’ is across the…

Over the last two years we have been learning to live with disruption. For many of us the degree of disruption is perhaps unprecedented. At times it may seem like we are continually in a storm of unpredictable and fluid events. We may not be able to control the environment around us, but one thing…