AGILE SCHOOL LEADERSHIP 4-DAY PROGRAM - Collective Impact - Simon Breakspear
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AGILE SCHOOL LEADERSHIP
4-DAY PROGRAM
Collective Impact
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Leadership ENROL YOUR TEAM FOR 2020
development for Registration is now open for the 2020 Agile School Leadership
teams Collective Impact program, where NSW schools will come together
for highly practical, job-embedded professional development.
The Agile School Leadership (ASL) Collective Impact program is
specifically designed to enable school leadership teams to
effectively design and implement evidence-informed strategies for
improvement by adopting agile ways of working together. All school
leadership teams have improvement plans with associated goals,
strategies and expected milestones. The key challenge is to
sharpen their improvement thinking and then effectively implement
in their unique local context.
This program provides a systematic process to animate and
accelerate the school improvement work that leadership teams are
already engaged in. By providing frameworks, skills and easy-to-
use tools, teams are enabled to move through iterative cycles of
action, feedback and refinement towards their intended impact for
The Three Skills students, teachers and community.
of an Agile Leader
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LEADERSHIP TEAMS WILL
Intended Learning LEARN HOW TO
Outcomes • Embrace and model agile mind-sets during complex
educational change work
The longitudinal design of the program enables leaders to • Apply agile leadership frameworks and skills within their
build their individual and collective improvement capacity by own roles
solving real-world challenges in their own unique school • Refine their improvement priorities and plans, and clarify
setting. their precise intended pathways for impact
• Develop a clear process for leading an iterative
In this practical program, participants will be supported to improvement journey that can adjust for the human
use the Agile School Leadership framework and be dynamics of change in schools
equipped with the knowledge of how to successfully lead
• Adopt and embed the plans, routines and norms of highly
and implement improvement plans in a complex and effective responsive teams
changing environment.
• Harness formative evaluation to monitor the progress,
successes, failures and roadblocks in the improvement
Participating leaders will leave with practical approaches
journey as it unfolds
and new agile ways of working together that can be
sustained beyond the scope of the formal program. • Continuously refine and sharpen their strategies and plans
for improvement based on their own ‘learning by doing’
within their own context
• Rethink resistance and support the adoption of evidence-
informed approaches and practices
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Should your
team participate?
To be eligible to join, schools must have:
• A commitment to engaging in evidence-informed
practice school improvement
• The Principal and a core school improvement team
consisting of 3-6 school/middle/teacher leaders
who are committed to attending all workshops as a
team unit
• The intention and commitment to explore and apply
this new improvement approach in their own
context
• A willingness to work in deep partnership with
other schools to share ideas and provide feedback
that can accelerate collective improvement
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4 days of intensive workshops
Learning
Design Engaging online videos and resources hub
Components
Application of learning through an
We believe in ‘learning by doing’ in the context of
improvement project
leading authentic and meaningful school improvement
work. In this course, leadership teams learn using a
variety of methods including engaging video, in-person
intensive workshops, hands-on activities, sharing Reflection and peer feedback exercise
insights from the field, and gathering feedback from
peers.
Leadership Toolkit
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Workshop
Overviews
DAY 1 Our program begins with a 2-day intensive workshop where
teams build confidence in using the key models and tools of
the Agile School Leadership framework.
• Foundations of the Agile School Leadership approach
• Engaging in Impact Thinking
• Crafting pathways to impact
DAY 2 This day will focus on impact evidence, team health and
developing an agile mindset. We will synthesise our learning
and plan for action.
• Harnessing formative evaluation
• Embedding the norms, plans and routines of responsive
teams
• Developing our individual and collective mindsets
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Workshop
Overviews
DAY 3 Teams return to review the core concepts of the DAY 4 During our final session together we will evaluate current
Agile School Leadership framework and set progress, build confidence in the framework and tools and
learning intentions. develop a rapid action plan.
• Engaging in iterative improvement • Reviewing and refining our improvement work
• Sharpening our Impact Thinking and formative • Amplifying our impact and overcoming resistance
evaluation
• Reviewing our own personal leadership impact across
• Developing responsive teams and leadership our core activities
expertise
7Workshop Financial
Details Investment
Dates
The program kicks off with a 2-Day interactive A minimum team of 4 people (including the Principal)
workshop, followed by 2 further workshop from each school are required to participate.
dates in Terms 2 and 3.
Team of 4: $4,950 plus GST
March: Thursday 12th – Friday 13th Additional team members: $950 plus GST
June: Tuesday 16th
August: Wednesday 12th
Venue
SMC Conference & Function Centre Click to Apply
66 Goulburn St, Sydney NSW 2000
8Agile School
Leadership
Alumni share
comments about
their experience
9Thank you for one of the most high impact and paradigm shifting
professional learning and team development experiences of my
career!
Changed the way I view leadership and how to lead within
complex schools.
2019 Participant Absolutely loved this experience!! Thank you!!
Comments Very valuable opportunity and experience as a leadership team to
dedicate time to being better leaders
This is the best PL in leadership I’ve ever experienced.
Lots of practical ideas tools and scaffolds that we can use
at our school to implement change.
It was fantastic! Learnt so much and can't wait to trial what I
have learnt in my own practises from leadership to classroom
practises.
Thanks for taking us on a great journey of inward reflection and
facilitating such valuable time for us together as an exec. We
leave with more clarity, tools, resources and enthusiasm for social
learning.
102019
Participant
Comments
Both Simon and Ryan were superb and knowledgeable presenters
that understand the nature of the work we are doing and have
helped to give tools to assist us to make change in schools thank
you.
By far the most useful PL for my executive team that we have had for
a long time.
Was an excellent motivating PL that made us deeply
analyse and evaluate where we are heading and WHY!
Loved it for a number of reasons - most of all being able to
have a professional discussion with my colleagues and be
able to encourage and support the same for them to do
the same. Thank you. I look forward the evolution of this
program in future.
Great practical PL. this has given us the HOW we’ve been looking
for. Brilliant.
Fantastic course. Was great to be given time to spend working in
teams, planning and having effective discussions.
11Data: 99% agreed that
Agree Strongly agree
they developed useful
knowledge & skills
Q. The sessions have provided me with practical
skills and tools to support my work
99%
% of survey respondents
Data: 99.3% would
Yes
recommend this program
to other leaders
Q. Would you recommend other educators
engage in this professional learning? 99.3%
Source: Aug 2019 NSW Feedback Survey. n = 150
% of survey respondents
12Meet Your Facilitators
DR SIMON BREAKSPEAR
Dr Simon Breakspear is a researcher, advisor and speaker on educational leadership, policy and change. He is the
Executive Director of the leadership development organisation Breakspear Learning, and Research Fellow at the
University of New South Wales, Gonski Institute for Education.
Simon is passionate about supporting school leadership development at scale. He is the creator of Teaching
Sprints, an open-source teacher professional learning approach, and serves as an expert advisor to the NSW
Department of Education School Leadership Institute and the AITSL Leadership Steering Committee.
Simon earned his PhD in education from the University of Cambridge as a Gates Scholar, and a MSc in
Comparative and International Education from the University of Oxford as a Commonwealth Scholar. Simon holds
Bachelors degrees in Psychology and Teaching, and began his work in education as a high school teacher.
Simon lives in Sydney with his wife and three young children.
DR RYAN DUNN
Dr Ryan Dunn has considerable experience within education and has advised and collaborated with schools and
districts across Australia, the USA and Canada. As a Director as Breakspear Learning Ryan has worked
extensively with leaders in Victoria, South Australia, Queensland, New South Wales and Alberta to support
leadership development at a system, network and school level.
Ryan is also lecturer at a leading University in Australia where his work focuses on teacher professional learning,
educational leadership, practitioner research and primary mathematics. He is currently leading the Melbourne
Catholic Education Office (CEM) School Wide Improvement Forums that is a partnership between Breakspear
Learning, CEM and and over 50 Southern Region Primary School Improvement Teams.
Ryan completed his PhD under the supervision of Professor John Hattie. His PhD focused on the effectiveness of
educational design research as a form of teacher professional learning. He is a lead facilitator for Agile Leadership
and Teaching Sprints programs across Australia.
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