Developing Whole School Leaders
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On September 23, ACAMIS hosted a Job-Alike for Educational Leaders with responsibility for planning, facilitating, and/or supporting leadership development in their school. The four facilitators for this Job-Alike, Renee Rehfeldt, Claire Peet, Ewen Bailey and Michael Iannini, designed this Discussion Guide.
WHY DID WE MEET:
Most, if not all International Schools, have professional development (PD) resources for developing middle leaders. However, there seems to be a significant gap in leadership resources and support for Aspiring Senior Leaders. It is often assumed that Aspiring Senior Leaders and Senior Leaders themselves, assume this burden by reading and attending conferences and workshops. These individual professional learning tracks, though, don’t always contribute to the development of the school, and in particular, to developing the next generation of leaders for the school.
WHAT DID WE DISCUSS:
The 4 facilitators for this job-a-like developed this Discussion Guide, from which they facilitated experience sharing and discussions that surfaced best practices and tools for:
Building consensus on and get buy-in for cultivating the Leadership of Learning
Identifing activities and resources that align leadership development with school development initiatives
Conceptualizing a plan to develop aspiring senior leaders
THE DISCUSSION GUIDE:
Use this Discussion Guide to provoke thinking and reflection about your current leadership development activities and resources. This guide was designed in line with appreciative inquiry practices. Appreciative inquiry (AI) is a model for reflection and growth that builds on positive practices rather than a purely deficit model. AI builds on what is working, digs into why it is working, and extrapolates what may be expanded or extended in a new context. AI relies on sharing case studies and sets the stage for further inquiry, introspection, and paths for growth.