Critical Perspectives in Educational Leadership

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CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES IN

EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP

Developing sustainable leadership Professor Brent Davies

Systems leadership Professor David Hopkins

Leadership for the self-evaluating school Professor John MacBeath

9 November 2007,London

6March 2008,London

13 March 2008,Leeds (Brighouse)Business School


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Three Professors Three Insights

DEVELOPING SUSTAINABLE LEADERSHIPProfessor Brent Davies

The em phasis on short-term accountability m easures has often prioritised

the use of short-term m anagem ent strategies to m eet test and O fsted

m easures. M oving aw ay from short-term ism to the m ore fundam ental

consideration of sustainable leadership is the focus of this presentation.W hile it w ould be naive or unrealistic to suggest that school leaders do not

have to respond to short-term accountability targets and m anagerial

im peratives,it is im portant that these responses are set against sustainable

leadership factors.I propose nine sustainable leadership factors that should

be developed and deployed to battle w ith the dangers of m anagerial short-

term ism ! These factors have been draw n from recent research of sustainable

and strategically successful schools.

SYSTEM S LEAD ERSH IP

Professor David Hopkins

H ard Federations,executive headships,partnering schools in challenging

circum stances are all exam ples of the changing role of leaders in schools.

These system leadership roles are part of the landscape of w ider school

im provem ent approaches being adapted.This em ergent practice w ill be

articulated and patterns of system leadership w ill be explored.H eadteachers

and schools exam ining these future roles and contributions will find this a

valuable insight as they contem plate new challenges.

LEA D ERSH IP FO R TH E SELF-EVALUATIN G SC H O O L

Professor John MacBeath

In England,there is a new relationship w ith schools,w ith self-evaluation now

seen by O fsted as the key to im provem ent and sustainability.M aking self-

evaluation an integral part of day-to-day classroom practice rem ains a

longer-term proposition,how ever,as it is still regarded as an event and an

extra im position.The challenge for leadership is to help teachers,pupils andparents to tell the school's ow n story,in the language of w hat professionals

value and not w hat can be easily m easured.Inspirational exam ples from

school practice in this and other countries w ill be draw n on to illustrate w hat

a genuinely new relationship m ight look like.

H ull U niversity Business School presents


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About the speakers

Professor Brent Davies is Professor of International Leadership

D evelopm ent at H ull U niversity Business School.H e is also a Professorial

Fellow at the U niversity of M elbourne,Visiting Professor at the Institute of

Education (U niversity of London),Special Professor at the U niversity of

N ottingham and a Faculty M em ber of the C entre on Educational

G overnance at the U niversity of Southern C alifornia.H e is an AssociateD irector of the Specialist Schools and A cadem ies Trust.

Professor David Hopkins is the inaugural H SBC C hair in International

Leadership,w here he supports the w ork of iN et,the International arm of the

Specialist Schools Trust and the Leadership C entre at the Institute of

Education,U niversity of London. Betw een 2002 and 2005 he served three

Secretaries of State as the C hief A dviser on School Standards at the

D epartm ent for Education and Skills. Previously, he w as C hair of the

Leicester City Partnership Board and Professor of Education,H ead of the

School, and D ean of the Faculty of Education at the U niversity of

N ottingham .

Professor John MacBeath is C hair of Educational Leadership at the

U niversity of C am bridge in w hich capacity he has continued to w ork closely

w ith schools, local authorities, the N ational U nion of Teachers and

governm ents on self-evaluation. H is self-evaluation books have been

translated into 13 languages.H is research and consultancy has helped to

shape policy in 20 countries in Europe and the Pacific Rim .H e is President

of the International C ongress on School Effectiveness and Im provem ent.H is

recent book School Inspection and self-evaluation:working the new relationship

offers a critique of current policy and suggests how schools can be m ore

successful in asserting their ow n professional priorities.

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H ull U niversity Business SchoolH ull,H U 6 7RX

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Current educational developments provide education

leaders with new challenges and opportunities.How to

evaluate,sustain and share leadership practice is a key

issue for all leaders.This focused conference provides a

unique opportunity to explore this issue with international

experts in the field of education leadership.


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Programme for the day

9.15 9.50 Arrival and registration

9.50 10.00 WelcomeIntroduction to Hull UniversityBusiness School

10.00 11.15 Developing sustainableleadershipProfessor Brent Davies

11.15 11.30 Refreshment break

11.30 12.45 Systems leadershipProfessor David Hopkins

12.45 13.50 Lunch

13.50 15.05 Leadership for the self-evaluating schoolProfessor John MacBeath

15.05 15.10 ConclusionProfessor Brent Davies


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