Preparing for Headship - Tuesday 12 November 2024 (Online)
This course is for: Aspiring Heads of HMC and other independent schools.
Description
Course outcomes:
- Learn about headship and its opportunities and challenges, including advice from a serving HMC head
- Understand your own development needs and career pathway in preparation for headship
- Increase your awareness of the application, interview and recruitment process for headship
- Acquire strategies for making an effective transition to headship
- Have the opportunity for structured reflection: how ready am I and how can I continue to prepare for future headship?
Outline Programme:
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09.30 – 09.35 |
Welcome and introductions |
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09.35 – 10.15 |
The nature of headship, and what the best school leadership looks like Jill Berry |
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10.15 - 11.00 |
Making the Leap: navigating the recruitment and selection process Jill Berry |
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11.00 – 11.10 |
Break |
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11.10 – 12.00 |
Making the transition to headship – the perspective of a HMC head Amber Waite, Principal, St Alban Education Group |
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12.00 – 12.30 |
Structured Reflection: How ready are you, and what are your next steps? Jill Berry |
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12.30 |
Close |
Course Director Biography:
Jill taught for thirty years across six different schools in the UK, state and independent, and was a head for the last ten. Since leaving headship she has completed a doctorate, researching the transition to headship; written a book: 'Making the Leap - Moving from Deputy to Head' (Crown House, 2016) https://www.crownhouse.co.uk/publications/making-the-leap; and carried out an extensive range of leadership development work. In 2019 she spoke at a TEDx event on the subject of ‘Take a Second Look: Bring Out the Best in Yourself and Others’: https://www.ted.com/talks/jill_berry_take_a_second_look_bring_out_the_best_in_yourself_and_others