Organisational Innovation and Effectiveness

K-12 Cultural Innovation in Australian Schools

23rd - 24th February 2015 | Cliftons, Sydney

Greg PriorDeputy SecretaryDepartment of Education and Communities

Adjunct Professor, School of EducationUniversity of Western Sydney

Organisational Innovation and Effectiveness

Changing concepts

Implications for organisational strategy

Assessing organisational effectiveness

Looking ahead

Students in NSW Schools

Catering for student diversity

“Rethink school readiness: Schools must be ready for different

children, not children must be ready for school.”

Pasi Sahlberg

Implications for Organisational Strategy

• How do we want our students to be learning in the future?

• How will they be behaving, interacting, connecting with others?

• What skills and qualities do our students need to develop for success, now and into the future?

• What does this mean for staff members and school leaders and the way they work and connect?

• How do we best connect with our broader community and with other schools?

• What contributions are we making beyond our schools?

Simon Sinek’s Golden Circle

Success:

When everyone in the organisation can say why we do what we do – the purpose

Successful leaders:. . . all think, act and communicate from the inside.

The cultural change journey

Collarbone: Leadership and organisational change 2014

Why are we doing it?

Purpose:- Why we need our

particular strategic directions and why each is important?

How are we doing it?

People- How do we develop

capabilities of our people to bring about transformation?

Processes- How do we do it and how

will we know?

What does it look like?

Practices- What are our newly

embedded practices and how are they integrated and in sync with our purpose?

Product- What is achieved and how

do we know?

5 Ps – clearly articulate the why, how & what of strategic directions

School Plan Implementation and Monitoring

2015 2016 2017

Published School Plan

Next Cycle…

Dynamic Learning System

A dynamic learning system

Student LearningAssessment of

holistic learning

Consistent Standards

Validating judgements

Planning, Implementing and Reporting

A dynamic learning system

Staff and Leader Learning

Building individual and collective capability

Accreditation and Recognition

Australian teaching standards and principal

standard

Planning, Implementing and Reporting

A dynamic learning system

School LearningSelf-regulation and

efficacy

Validation Processes

External audit and validation teams

Planning, Implementing and Reporting

A dynamic learning system

Staff and Leader Learning

Building individual and collective capability

Accreditation and Recognition

Australian teaching standards and principal

standard

Student LearningAssessment of

holistic learning

School LearningSelf-regulation and

efficacy

Consistent Standards

Validating judgements

Validation Processes

External audit and validation teams

Planning, Implementing and Reporting

• Developing strong, visible and empowering leadership at all levels of the organisation.

• Developing a clear vision that is aligned to the organisation’s strategic directions in all business units, stages or faculties and providing clarity through a strong strategic narrative about the organisation, where it has come from and where it is going.

Leadership:

• Building effective, confident and skilled teams that work collaboratively and have the trust and cooperation of each member.

• Engaging leaders who focus their people on challenging and meaningful work with clear expectations, providing timely feedback on performance, recognition, opportunities for career advancement and coaching through appropriate performance management systems.

Teamwork:

• Establishing a culture and systems that allow each member to contribute and see that their input is valued and informs decision making.

• Ensuring there is employee voice through the organisation, for reinforcing and challenging views, between function units and externally, and that people are seen as central to the solution.

• Developing and implementing highly effective and streamlined systems to deliver educational services to schools.

Culture & Systems:

• Developing the leadership team to create confidence and credibility in education by being exemplars of high ethical and performance standards.

• Ensuring there is organisational integrity – the values on the wall are reflected in day to day behaviours.

Professional Integrity:

“The future is not some place we are going to, but one we are creating. The paths are

not to be found, but made, and the activity of making them changes both the maker

and the destination”.

John Schaar - Political Theorist