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There are emerging and aspiring leaders within your staff team. It is time to identify them. Yet, what does talent look like? Don’t be fooled by the fallacy that emerging talent equates to a charismatic personality. It is often helpful to determine criteria to assess leadership potential. Best practice in leadership identification moves away from [...]
Continue Reading →Education systems across the OECD face a leadership succession crisis. Over the next 5-10 years up to 50% of our current principals will retire. Compounding this problem, there are indications of reduced interest in pursuing further leadership from current middle leaders, and continued high attrition of beginning teaching. We urgently need new systems and processes [...]
Continue Reading →Innovation guru Charles Leadbeater speaks on a radical approach to education reform.
Continue Reading →I have just arrived back in Cambridge after an incredible few weeks working with educational leaders back in Australia. Curating and speaking at the inaugural Global Emerging Leaders Summit was the highlight of the trip. 155+ dynamic emerging leaders from across Australia and Asia Pacific met for two days of collaboration and leadership development. We [...]
Continue Reading →I am teaming up with the Australian Council for Educational Leaders to launch the first Global Emerging Educational Leaders Summit. The Summit will gather a ‘tribe’ of 100 of the most innovative and inspirational young educators from across the Commonwealth for two days of collaboration, leadership development and exposure to the most innovative educational ideas [...]
Continue Reading →This White Paper is the result of a collaboration with globally recognised Gen Y guru Peter Sheahan and Dom Thurbon from the Centre for Skills Development. It seeks to outlines the nature and extent of the teacher shortage problem and offers some accessible and useful strategies as a starting point for educational [...]
Continue Reading →Check out Beyond Chalk. An innovative professional development program specifically designed to integrate engaging technology into the classroom. The best part – it is completely free. Have a look at the site and find the workshop that ‘lights you up.’
The best PD I have seen for a long time.
Continue Reading →It is time for educational leaders to focus on shifting workplace culture in schools. Here are some practical first steps.
Continue Reading →Zeke Vanderhoek is revolutionising the education reform agenda through his new US charter school The Equity Project. Placing teacher quality at the centre of his vision for a high functioning school Zeke conducted a country-wide recruitment strategy to employ a diverse and talented team of 8 teachers. Teachers are set to earn $125,000 per year. [...]
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