Who is Leading from the Middle for

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Who is Leading from the Middle for?

• Subject/curriculum leaders
• Heads of department/faculty/year/house
• Key stage co-ordinators academic and pastoral
• Literacy/numeracy/strategy co-ordinators
• PHSE/Citizenship/Careers/ICT co-ordinators
• Attendance/behaviour co-ordinators
• SENCOs
• Support staff who have a role in school leadership

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Programme
Activities
ISA a
ISA b
ISA c
Leadership Focus
Leadership Focus discussion
Events
Middle Leader Diagnostic
Development Day 3
LC day
Development Day 1
Development Day 2
Induction - Twilight
Celebration
C
C
C
C
C
C
Support
Facilitator Contact
Facilitator Contact
Facilitator Contact
LC twilight
C School Coaching Session ISA
Inter-sessional Activity
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Role of Leadership Coaches

• Coaches are crucial and need to be totally
• committed to the process. They
• monitor,
• support,
• challenge,
• encourage middle leaders to complete tasks and
  implement the leadership competencies,
• help middle leaders to develop effective
  leadership and coaching skills, through example.

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The LftM qualification

• At the Celebration at the end of the programme
  participants and coaches receive a certificate
  from the National College to recognise the
  achievement
• Completion of LftM is widely recognised in
  educational establishments across England
• As Granada Learning has links with Higher
  Education Institutions in the SW area, we can
  provide you with details of how you might be able
  to join a free tutorial programme in which you
  will use your work on LftM as part of a
  submission worth 60 M level credits

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Learning Sets

• Whichever type of LftM group is used, it will
  contain a number
• of Learning Sets. These comprise
• A Leadership Coach
• Between 2 and 4 participants
• Usually everyone in a Learning Set comes from the
  same school but sometimes participants from two
  schools get together and share a coach,
• Lone participants can often be catered for by
  being partnered with another school. Granada
  Learning will sometimes organise these marriages
  of convenience but it is more normal for schools
  to arrange their own.

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What other commitments are there?

• Coaches attend one full day at the start of the
  programme and one twilight session part-way
  through. They also attend two further twilights
  alongside the participants, one at the beginning
  of LftM and one at the end,
• Participants attend three full days and the two
  twilights described above,
• Ideally there will be seven coaching sessions,
  one-to-one between each participant and the
  coach. On average, these take place every five
  or six weeks and last up to half an hour,
• Coaches will also arrange learning sets two or
  three times during the programme when all
  participants and the coach meet together for a
  session in school,
• Online activities and participation in online
  communities,
• Development and delivery of the Leadership Focus

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Cost

• The fee from April 2009 is 530 per state school
  participant (this is subsidised by the National
  College and may rise slightly from April 2010)
• All training for coaches is free
• Small schools (those with fewer than 100 pupils)
  do not pay any fee and may get some support with
  cover and travel
• Independent schools are very welcome to join the
  programme but as their participants do not
  receive a subsidy from the National College the
  fee will be in the region of 1,000 per person.
  Please talk to us in advance if you might be in
  this situation.

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How to Enrol

• We expect to have up to ten LftM groups, spread
  right across the South West, for Cohort 14
  starting Spring 2010,
• There is a limited number of places for
  participants in each group so we may need to use
  a first come, first served approach,
• The first step to enrolling is to register
  interest in joining the programme (details about
  this in a moment),
• Once we receive details from the National College
  about when the registration and enrolment window
  is open, all those who have registered interest
  will receive an e-mail alert with further
  instructions

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Registering interest

• Please send an e-mail to gillian.gee_at_granadalearni
  ng.net
• This must contain
• Your name and whether you are a coach or a
  participant
• Your school name and your role in school
• A list of towns convenient for you to travel to
  for the face-to-face sessions
• Details of who else is going to be in your
  learning set (coach and participants)
• If you cannot make up a learning set please be
  clear about who/what is missing and what ideas
  you have for making the learning set complete

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What will happen next?

• Your e-mail expressing interest will be
  acknowledged. Please note that at this stage you
  are not guaranteed a place
• As soon as we know when the window for
  registration is open you will get an e-mail
  alert. The window will probably open during
  December and close towards the end of January

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The online application process

• Full details of this will be provided when you
  receive the alert e-mail.
• You just need to know that there are two stages
• Registration this is when you apply to be a
  member of the National College and choose a
  username and password
• Enrolment once your registration has been
  accepted you will then be able to enrol for the
  Leading from the Middle programme itself
• You will only have completed your application
  when you have finished both of the steps above.

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Key Contacts

• Education Manager
• gillian.gee_at_granadalearning.com
• 01297 631295
• LftM co-ordinator
• 0208 996 6039