In 2005 – 2008 the Scottish Executive funded a programme designed to give Scottish Teachers access to the best educational thinkers from across the world. Many current areas of work for the CPD team can be traced back to these visits. The focus on coaching as a powerful tool to support leadership development, the Learning Rounds programme, the 4-stage model, the Summer Schools on School Leadership, etc all came from the stimulus offered by the visitors and by the international study trips to Harvard Summer Schools organised for a range of system leaders.

The following report was written by the CPD Team in 2008.

This (rather long) post summarises most of the links to our Leadership Summer School. As more links appear, we will update this post. Please share with us your own thoughts, experiences and links for the event!

The ‘official site’

You can get more information (including the programme) on the  Summer School site. Copies of all the Powerpoints will be available here soon!

Twitter

Before, during and after the 4 days, some colleagues used Twitter to discuss the leadership topics. If you want to see their links, thoughts and comments, here’s what to do:

1.       Go to http://tinyurl.com/lss09latest

2.       Read the comments made. (Please note for those unfamiliar with Twitter, each comment must be less than 140 characters. This can sometimes lead to perceptions that commenters are a tad brusque!)

3.       Click on blue links with http:// in front of it to follow a link

4.       Click on blue @ to see who is making the comment (eg@cpdscotsman will take you to Con’s Twitter account)

 Monday

Chair – Annette Bruton, HMIE

Tuesday

Chair – Tony Townsend

Wednesday

Chair – Frank Lennon

Thursday

Chair – Michael Kellett

Links for Summer School day 1

You can get more information on Day 1 on the Summer School site

If you want an up-to-date on the latest links, thoughts, comments from colleagues (attending and observing from afar), here’s what to do:

1.       Go to http://tinyurl.com/lss09latest

2.       What you see is a summary of the comments from Twitter (a social network site)

3.       Read the comments made

4.       Click on blue links with http:// in front of it to see more

5.       Click on blue @ to see who is making the comment

Bruce Robertson             

• Bruce’s talk on Prezi

Bob Fryer           

• Bob’s talk
• Wordle of the Leitch report
• Scottish Citizenship paper
• Wordle of the Scottish Citizenship paper
• Delors report “The treasure within” 
• Some stuff from Stephen Heppell on learning trends         

Fiona’s Hyslop’s speech

Irwin’s talk         

Marie’s talk       

Dennise’s talk

Creativity, Leadership and CfE

My big idea has been implemented at Dean Park Primary School – the faculty system of:

• Health
• Citizenship
• Ecology
• Enterprise
• Skills

This system organises all of the subjects in pursuit of an applied and broad primary education with inter-disciplinary knowledge at its core. As such it is in tune with the ubiquitous nature of the Scottish Enlightenment and the ‘lad-o-pairts’. CfE is therefore seen as being in the traditions and values of Scotland rather than something new.

Colin Russell, Head Teacher, Dean Park Primary School, City of Edinburgh Council