CPD Team

As previewed before the summer break (The Summer School on Glow), the CPD Team intend to ‘+glow’ the Leadership Summer School to enhance the event and improve its impact. This will provide benefits for both attendees to the Glasgow event and those who come along on Glow

There will be 3 outputs of this work.

1. An online community to share resources, host discussion points and help with evaluation of impact
2. A series of CPDMeets (live video streaming from the event). These will feature sessions led by Mick Waters, David Hopkins and David Mongon.  
3. A series of CPDShorts. These will recordings of the CPDMeets with appropriate reflection / discussion points

Please feel free to express an interest in this unique event on Glowand you will be contacted with more details shortly. 

• More details on the CPDFind opportunity – The Summer School on Glow
• You can see highlights from the previous 3 Summer Schools on the Summer School website

Thanks to CPD Managers at local authority level for returning the leadership survey. Interesting now for the National CPD team to be looking at models of leadership development within schools. Really worthwhile to hear of interesting initiatives on this to support our own observations.

We enjoyed holding our second meeting of the leadership advisory group in June.  This is a consultancy group formed with the purpose of informing and advising the National CPD Team.  From the evidence of the leadership survey we agreed some action points on leadership development designed to support local authorities. 

The experience of Margaret Barclay, Danny Murphy, Gillian Hamilton and Charlie McAteer continues to be invaluable in determining our contribution to the national agenda.  We will take forward these action points and be in liaison with CPD Managers as we do this.  One of the action points is to review and redraft “CPD For Educational Leaders (2003)” which we know many of us continue to use to provide a structure for leadership development at school and authority level.

We were all inspired by the FRH Leadership conference over two days in May.  We joined 42 aspiring headteachers from 11 local authorities and 22 professional development coaches.  We focussed on the themes of strategic leadership, coaching and personal learning plans.  We were very pleased with the positive evaluation of the programme and look forward to meeting up again withour colleagues at our next one day seminar in November. 

We have attached a copy of the FRH model for your information.

FRH Model

Jim Keegans 13.07.10

Excellent TED talk by Charles Leadbetter who works with Cisco.
http://tinyurl.com/373j5fo

Also check out the article that followed his input at the Scottish Learning Festival which covers much of the same ground

http://tinyurl.com/2wuubv4

Photo from LTScotland