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Overview
Leadership of learning institutions and programmes: staff development, quality culture, resource decisions and leading change with people who did not ask for it. Built around a live improvement project.
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Aims of the Course
- Lead teaching quality and staff development
- Build a culture of honest quality assurance
- Make resourcing decisions with evidence
- Lead change with consent and clarity
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Course Structure
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Leading Learning
- Instructional leadership models
- Observing and coaching teachers
- Development conversations
- Distributed leadership
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Quality Culture
- Quality assurance versus policing
- Data-informed improvement
- Handling underperformance fairly
- Learner voice
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Organisational Strategy
- Vision to operational plan
- Curriculum and provision decisions
- Financial sustainability
- Marketing, reputation and ethics
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Leading Change
- Diagnosing readiness
- Communication and consultation
- Managing resistance at every level
- Sustaining improvement
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People and Wellbeing
- Recruitment and retention
- Workload and staff wellbeing
- Difficult conversations
- Safeguarding as a leadership duty
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Improvement Project
- Scoping a live improvement
- Implementation and monitoring
- Measuring impact
- Presenting to governors or trustees
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Learning Outcomes
- 01Observe and coach a teacher with actionable feedback
- 02Produce a school or programme improvement plan
- 03Lead a live improvement initiative to measurable effect
- 04Manage a staff performance concern lawfully
- 05Present an evidence-based case to a governing body
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Assessment
- Improvement project and impact report
- Coaching observation cycle
- Governance presentation
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Entry Requirements
- Teaching experience and current leadership responsibility
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Progression and Careers
- Head of department or division
- Programme director
- Education quality manager