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Profiles of School Leadership
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Transcript of Profiles of School Leadership
Profiles of leadershipA Deadly Journey
MATSITI National School Leadership Forum
16 October 2014
www.matsiti.edu.au/events/leaders
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
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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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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