Are you a leader for the future? Ready to lead your school community well into the 21st Century?

Confident and capable to manage:

Multi-professional group dynamics
The personalised learning agenda
Integrated Children's Services
Extended Schools
Community Leadership
New relationship with schools (e.g. SSE/SIP)
Extended Schools
Building Schools for the Future
Trusts, Federations, Specialist Schools and Academies

Twenty12 – developing future school leaders

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This programme is for aspiring school leaders to help them make the mindshift to lead schools differently by 2012 and beyond. The programme creates opportunities for participants to develop their understanding and capability in key areas of leadership and learning.

The programme is designed to be innovative and experiential.

How is it delivered and what is the cost?

Sessions are co-tutored/facilitated by key Local Authority or School Network colleagues partnered by a BPN facilitator (facilitator participant ratio 1:8, minimum group size of 16). This ensures the local contextual needs are met and that the professional supportive relationship of LA/Networks with schools is maintained. The BPN consultant adds an external facilitation dimension that complements the LA/Network facilitator. The components of the programme may include:

Forty-eight hour residential event followed by four one day or half day workshops over six months
Co-Coaching in pairs/triads related to development of leadership competencies necessary in challenging environments
An international experience to study leadership of change in an evolving social environment
Future Sight activities
Modules on Core Purpose of Headship, Management of Change, Emotional Intelligence, Community Leadership
Action Research placements in a regeneration/development project team of Children's Services, wider public sector and private sector organisations
Bespoke modules specifically relevant to your school's context - co-created in partnership with you

The cost of the basic programme is £1,495 + VAT. Additional modules, including Executive Coaching, are also available.

Best Practice Network continue to seek out and share best practice by developing a range of innovative programmes tailored to suit the specific needs of local authorities, school leaders and their teams. For example, Improving Team Performance has been co-developed with HOLT (a leading national provider of experiential learning for team and leadership development) and Changing Organisations draws on the unique style of working below the surface of the Tavistock Consultancy Service (TCS).

We are able to offer National College of School Leadership team programmes (WTfS, DCSI, NCSL Multi-agency team development) and, as an accredited centre for the Institute of Leadership and Management, a range of ILM Coaching and Mentoring Programmes. For more information email: melaniegreville@bestpracticenet.co.uk