Conferences are difficult to get right – content especially. And in order to satisfy busy Head Teachers hungry for new, effective ideas, it must be:
1. Innovative
2. Practical
3. Challenging
4. Cutting-edge
Sharing information that has the potential for being transformational in practice terms is what HTs value – information that relates to strengthening a high-performance culture.
At the Wallasey Heads Cluster in the Wirrall a program was delivered around Sustainable Approaches to Leadership, tackling:
1. How to build a self-sustaining system for school improvement and innovation
2. How to create a high-performance culture
3. How to involve and engage all staff in the improvement process
4. How to align school vision, mission and values so that they drive improvement and systems
A Practical Guide to High-Performance
A practical guide is of great help to busy people, a guide that describes how to work ON a school, not just IN it.
Head teacher’s value learning about how to build a high performance culture and specifically:
- Core Framework – how to write a strong and robust vision for a school that provided both challenge and direction
- Strategy Summary – how to write a ‘one-page’ document to provide staff with the ‘need-to-know’ regarding school innovations and their role
- Innovation Cycle – how to put in place a clear structure and operation that enables innovation teams to work effectively
- Standard Walks and 5 Minute Meetings – how to run regular walks that focus on monitoring the quality and impact of key systems and provide real-time feedback for staff via quick, standing meetings.
This proof is in the eating of course – but evidence abounds to support these steps as transforming low to high performance.
Look forward to working with you soon!
