New Forms of Leadership and Governance Task Group

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• New Forms of Leadership and Governance Task Group

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? Main Aims of the task group

• Purpose of the November 2006 seminar was to raise
  awareness and secure interest and commitment
• Purpose of the task group is to produce guidance
  and framework.
• produce some further clarification and
  understanding of models and opportunities
• draft a framework within which these models can
  be appropriately considered by schools, groups
  of school, the local authority etc.

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? Remit of Task Group

• What are the different motivations and drivers in
  Essex for adopting new forms of leadership and
  governance?
• What are our aims and purposes, in Essex, of
  applying new forms of leadership and governance?
• What are the models we wish to examine and test?
• How can we promote and implement these?
• What are the particular issues relating to these?
• What are the key types of development already
  operating or planned in Essex and what are we
  learning from them?

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?Why do we need to address this?

• Collaboration between institutions in the
  interests of students is at the heart of much
  current educational policy
• Progress on Every Child Matters and Change for
  Children is likely to require new approaches to
  school leadership and governance
• Looming recruitment challenge almost half of
  heads and SLT are 50 (Shaw, 2006).

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? There is no-one model of headship (or
governance) to suit all circumstances (NCSL, 2006)

• no sufficient evidence yet to confirm that new
  models of headship can contribute to improving
  manageability and attractiveness of the role
• any new, radical, or unconventional model needs
  broad support of all stakeholders
• consideration of new forms of headship needs to
  move hand-in-hand with examination of governance
  at school and LA and interaction between
  them.

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So ?

• Examination and guidance on models needed.
• Framework in which to consider models required.
• This meeting will
• examine again the scenario cards effect on their
  respective merits / attractiveness consider how
  they might be used in guidance
• consider what would be the elements of a guidance
  framework
• consider what evidence / input of current
  activity in Essex the group needs for the next
  meeting.

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