Collaborative Leadership Learning

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Collaborative Leadership Learning

• Every child in a well led school, every leader a
  learner
• NCSL Goal

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Leadership Learning

• The most powerful reason for principals to be
  learners as well as leaders comes from the
  extraordinary influence of modelling behaviour.
  In many schools, the more important you are, the
  further you are removed from learning. But when
  the leader is learner, when the principals
  learning is continuous, sustained, visible and
  exciting, a crucial and very different message is
  telegraphed to the community this school is a
  community of learners learning is its most
  important characteristic the principal is a
  first-class citizen of the community of learners,
  the head learner.
• Barth, R.S.

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The Three Fields of Knowledge
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Facilitation Skills
Models of Learning
Nature of Leadership
Enquiry focus to Inform practice
Working with LLG
Leadership Learning Group CLL Programme
Leadership Learning Participant Group
Reflection on that experience
Reflection on experience of CL
Questions/ideas for the learning of co
participants
Collaborative Learning
Tool kit tools, processes and materials
Personal benefit
Benefits to the groups
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A typical day

• Group activity
• Sharing experiences Initial meetings
• Beginning to get a group together
• Getting an existing group to work differently
• Outcome Guidelines for start-up of groups
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• Discussion question
• Drawing on your experience of facilitating other
  groups and the articles we have read what does
  the facilitator of a Leadership Learning Group
  need to learn / do?
• Group exercise Group dynamics and facilitation
  
• Group to plan Day 5
• Readings for next session
• Reflections on the day

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Questions for your CLL Groups first meeting

• What do you as a group want to get out of the
  next twelve eighteen months of working
  together?
• What could get in the way of achieving these
  aims?
• What commitments can you make at this stage to
  alleviate these potential problems?
• What can you do to make sure you get the benefit
  of what the facilitator does on the support
  programme?
• How does the group choose, and authorise, the
  facilitator?

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Commitments and Dates

• 15th July Closing date for applications for the
  support Programme
• End August successful applications informed
• September CLL groups meet and review questions
• 1st/2nd October First residential for CLL
  facilitators on the support programme
• Ongoing CLL groups meet regularly during 2003-4
• Ongoing CLL facilitators attend all nine
  sessions of the support programme

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Evidence of learning

• Solutions familiar to some can be innovations
  for others
• Interesting to hear totally outside
  perspective on your own thoughts/actions and
  judgements
• It is clearly helpful to have access to
  someone who is knowledgeable about the way groups
  operate and strategies to move groups forward
• Today has drawn together many strands from
  previous sessions been very useful for me
• The wealth of knowledge/range of skills
  available within our group never underestimate
  this within a group, even if people do not appear
  to engage
• The process was also helpful in developing
  collaborative learning the group engaged in
  mutual questioning and solution-seeking as not
  done before