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:

09.30 – 09.35

Welcome and introductions

09.35 – 10.15

The nature of headship, and what the best school leadership looks like

Jill Berry

10.15 - 11.00

Making the Leap: navigating the recruitment and selection process

Jill Berry

11.00 – 11.10

Break

11.10 – 12.00

Making the transition to headship – the perspective of a HMC head 

Amber Waite, Principal, St Alban Education Group

12.00 – 12.30

Structured Reflection: How ready are you, and what are your next steps?

Jill Berry

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