Profiles of School Leadership

Profiles of leadershipA Deadly Journey

MATSITI National School Leadership Forum

16 October 2014

www.matsiti.edu.au/events/leaders

What does AITSL do?

AITSL’s mission is to promote excellence in teacher and school leader practice for the benefit of

all young Australians

AITSL …

• defines and maintains national standards for teachers and principals

• leads and influences improvement and innovation in teaching and school leadership

• supports, recognises and extends high quality professional practice

Australian Professional Standard for Principals

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

360o Reflection Tool

School Leadership eCollection

Why Profiles?

To assist school leaders to build their leadership capacity

• to understand current practice• to plan the next stage of development

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Work so far Nov 2013: Consultation groups shaped draft Profiles

o Expert Steering Groupo Project Reference Groupo Expert Practitioners Group

March 2014: Uni Melb team - validated draft Profiles o survey gained 1675 school leader responses

May 2014: Profession consulted on draft Profileso 300+ school/system leaderso 9 locations

Aug 2014: Profiles finalised - based on feedback

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What are the Profiles?

Sets of statements about the leadership role that progressively increase in complexity AND which can be viewed through a number of lenses

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Statements showing gradually increasing complexity …….

Leading teaching and learningo Principals set expectations that all activities are

focused on improving student outcomes. They lead staff and students in identifying and planning high quality teaching and learning………

o Principals lead high aspirations in learning and inspire the same in students , staff and parents. They establish systematic methods for collecting and interpreting evidence to identify excellent teaching and share successful strategies………

AND statements that can be viewed through a number of lenses …….

o Professional Practices (the Standard)

o Leadership Requirements (the Standard)o Leadership Emphasis (leadership

context)

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Using the Profiles: Professional Practice lens

Focus on the Professional Practices of the Standardo Leading teaching and learningo Developing self and otherso Leading improvement, innovation and changeo Leading the management of the schoolo Engaging and working with the community

Leading Teaching and

Learning

Developing self and others

Leading the management of the school

Leading, improvement

innovation and change

Professional Practice

lens

Engaging and working with the community

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• Show Profiles diagram – standard view

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Using the Profiles: Leadership Requirements lens

Focus on the Leadership Requirements of the Standard

o Vision and valueso Knowledge and understandingo Personal qualities, social and interpersonal skills

Knowledge and

understanding

Vision and values

Personal qualities

Knowledge and

understanding

Personal qualities

Vision and values

Personal qualities

Vision and values

Knowledge and

understanding

Leadership Requirements

lens

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Using the Profiles: Leadership Emphasis lens

Focus determined by time, place and stage of development

o Operationalo Relationalo Strategico Systemic

SystemicSystemic

Operational

Strategic

Relational

Operational

Strategic

OperationalRelational

Operational

Systemic

Relational

Strategic

Relational

StrategicSystemic

Leadership Emphasis

lens

Workshop task #1

Reading ……

Look through the Profiles and get the feel for what each Professional Practice is describing.

Follow the Professional Practice across to see how the Profiles show progression through the Practice.

Workshop task #2

Writing ……

Complete the workshop card.

It asks you to think about o your own leadership strengthso where your leadership might need to growo the direction of your own leadership learning

Where to next?

• ‘Soft’ Launch of the Profiles – end Novembero Webpage – information and overviewo Booklet

• Full Launch of the Profiles – back to school 2015o Interactive webpages – views and resourceso Self-reflection Tool - linked to Profiles

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