Principal Professional Development project

This project, as a part of the National Partnership on Improving Teacher Quality, provides opportunities for

alliances of schools to drive student, school and systems learning and innovation led by school leaders working

together to create new capacity through new skills, new knowledge, and new practice.

Framing our collaboration

Purpose of the PPD project• Create sustainable collaborative learning

alliances underpinned by system wide communities of practices

• Build instructional leadership capacity for school and systems improvement

• Lead improvement, innovation and change • Develop the skills, capabilities, practices and

pathways for emerging principals and aspiring leaders in NSW Public schools

The Call for Systems LeadershipIt involves:•Developing and leading successful educational and organisational improvements•Acting as a curriculum innovator who develops and sustains best practice across the school system•Building capabilities as a change agent to lead transformative change within the complex and rapidly changing local and global contexts of the 21C learning environment

‘System leaders’ care about and work for the success of other schools as well as their own. They measure their

success in terms of improving student learning and increasing achievement, and strive to both raise the bar

and narrow the gap (s).

They are willing to shoulder system leadership roles in the belief that in order to change the larger system, you have

to engage with it in a meaningful way.

Professor Emeritus, David Hopkins, author of Every School A Great School

Vision and

values

Knowledge and

understanding

Personal qualities,

social and interpersonal

skills

Professionalpractices

Leading teaching and learning

Developing self and others

Leading improvement, innovation and change

Leading the management of the school

Engaging and working with the community

High quality learning, teaching

and schooling

The standard for principals : The role in action

Leadership requirements

Successful learners, confident creative

individuals and active informed citizens*

Context: School, sector, community: socio-economic, geographic: and education

systems at local, regional, national and global levels

The Australian Professional Standard for Principals

Australian Professional Standard for Principals Connect & Contribute

Innovation to create a Dynamic Learning System …

Using the NP Principal Professional Development to develop a Dynamic Learning System

What do leaders need to ensure?

What makes a powerful

school system?

1. Learning Alliances

Creating sustainable collaborative learning communities (alliances) and system wide practices of “enabling leadership” that will ensure the learning of leaders and contribute to student, school and systems learning and improvement.

2. Leadership DesignDesigning quality professional learning and curriculum modules to build instructional leadership capacity for school and system-wide improvement

Leadership Mastery

Core Leadership

Mentoring Principal

ProficientPrincipal

Novice Principal/Aspiring

Executive

2. Leadership Design: Building capacity through new knowledge, skills and practices

(after H Timperley)

Providing support through research,

facilitators and implementation

team.

Knowledge generation, sharing and distribution of

innovative educational practice

Recognition of prior learning andProfessional

learning modules.

Using national frameworks and tools including

AITSL 360 degree Reflection tool.

2. Leadership Design: Using the AITSL 360 Reflection Tool

The 360 Reflection Tool provides principals with the opportunity to:• reflect on their leadership capacity• monitor change in their leadership behaviour and actions• learn more about their strengths• better understand and explore opportunities for improvement• gather critical feedback on their performance• use feedback to reflect on their leadership and develop a leadership

action plan• use feedback as one element of their professional appraisal• plan professional learning and development opportunities for

themselves.• Registration for the 360 Reflection Tool will be available in early

2013.

3. Organisational InnovationLeading futures-focused organisational improvement, innovation and change.

3. Organisational Innovation: Embedding Change

Critical to the PPD project is delivering new ways of learning and organisational practice.

It is expected this national partnership will influence school improvement and systems improvement

“DISCIPLINED” INNOVATION - design new learning & practice that is joint, distributed, challenging, evaluative & supported. (After Valerie Hannon)

4. Leadership Succession & Sustainability

Developing accreditation pathways to enhance the skills, capabilities and practices of emerging principals and aspiring leaders in schools.

•The processes, projects, practices used in the delivery of the partnership in NSW DEC schools will support leadership professional learning and school improvement beyond the time frame of the project itself.

•The delivery will focus on making change with and for the people who lead our schools to enable them to sustain new ways of working and leading into the future.

We will be creating the environment for others

to succeed…..(Leon Cameron)

Over to you …What is your idea for an innovate learning & improvement project? What new capacity, skills, knowledge and practice will it create?

Who will work with you on it? (Learning Alliance)

Idea for innovation & improvement

Project report

Learning modules

Project management; learning, strategies & actions

What will support success?

What can hinder success?

NP

EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST ARE DUE BY CLOSE OF BUSINESS, 22 MARCH 2013