Hong Kong Special School
Principals
Dec 2012
Dream and Think Big
The Past
Woodlands
Hayward 8Ps
Autism Accreditation
No Early Years Wing
Conceiving buildings 6 Ofsted Inspections
Edison Demountable Classrooms
Containers Little Therapy support
No family support workers
No Discovery Club
Oliver
Dream
and……..
Now
Single Campus
Amazing Learning Environments Social Inclusion
National Teaching School
‘Rites of Passage’
Post-19 provision
Ofsted Outstanding School
AET Academy Heads of Learning
Full sensory facilities Excellent Therapy support
National Support School
Discovery Club
Healthy Schools Award A School and a College
International Schools Award Family Support
Dream big for children
A school is only outstanding when it’s outstanding for
every child
“To find what is great in every child, to nurture it and realise its potential”
The hands thing…..
• The Overview
• In Partnership there is Strength
• Create your own future
Personal Reflections
Track One (Education
‘Provider’)
• All our
academies
must be judged as at least
‘good’ by Ofsted
• All teaching is judged at least good
Track Two (Education
‘Movement’) The future
development of AET (Special) academies:
• Better transitions into adult life
• Ongoing support
• Multi-agency support as and when needed
• Better training and CPD
• R&D as the norm
AET
Track One
• Outstanding Teaching
• Excellent progress
• Care and Safety
Track Two
• Professional
Development goals
• Leadership
• Relentless Aspiration
Teachers
Track One
• Outstanding Teaching
• Excellent progress
• Care and Safety
Track Two
• Professional
Development goals
• Leadership –
Departmental goals
• Relentless Aspiration
HOLs
“The role of the managers and leaders is to get extraordinary performance from ordinary
people.”
Sir John Harvey Jones
What Leaders Do……
Leaders build the capacity of teams and individuals to take
responsibility for their own
continuous improvement
The Role of Leaders
To appoint only the best and trust them to do a good job
To achieve through others
To strive to make things as easy as possible for staff To encourage initiative - no blame culture
To set goals and coach people in new tasks
The Role of Leaders
To celebrate the success of pupils and staff
To pick up the bits when things go wrong – no blame culture
To encourage staff to offer solutions not problems
To manage by walking about
To tell staff when they are doing a good job
Empowering stakeholders
Teacher & Students
Support Staff Management
Systems
SLT
Subscribe to ‘Reflective Glory’
Characteristics of World Class Leaders
• Good listeners
• Passionate about their subject
• They articulate significant purpose
• They ‘walk’ values
• Know their subject well
• Tell stories and uses practical examples
• Provide a context
• Take time to understand people
• They ‘grow’ people
• They embrace change
Embrace Change
“Vision and change begin at the top. It can be an individual or it can be a team supporting the
Headteacher that champions the continuous change process.
They do not manage change: they are change”
DTI
“We can not afford poverty of vision, let alone poverty of aspiration.
There are always risks in changing, but the risk of failing to change is much greater.”
Martin Cross
Chief Exec. RSA
What are the key features of a leader who serves?
Trusting, empowering and developing others – building on strengths and sharing the limelight Careful stewards of resources – ensuring people are in the right job, building successful teams Understand the context of those they serve
Are learners themselves
Collaborative - receiving and giving support
Are resilient and adaptable and manage change well Hold courageous conversations
Faith in others and selves
Embedding mission, vision and values High expectations
Reflective
What do we need to do next?
• Communicate leadership vision clearly and consistently – so that individuals can articulate their part in the vision and direction
• Walk the talk /modelling - ensure that values and ethos are seen in action
• Empower and up-skill others – encourage greater responsibility for own development at all levels through coaching, support creativity, risk
taking and innovation
• Work in partnership – consult, engage stakeholders, develop a feedback, challenge, support and develop
• Long term goals not short term fixes – clearly structured
development plan
Moral Purpose
Moral purpose is not just about having good intentions, about being well disposed towards children and young people, about wanting the best for them. It is also about having the single minded determination to push things through to make a difference. My message is that moral purpose is more
important than ever but that this is not just about morality, it is about purpose too.
Steve Munby 2012
A Leadership Matrix
What Kind of Animal Leader are you?
Lion-like leaders:
• have the speed, courage and charisma to lead with power , but they are autocratic and they lack
endurance.
• They are very good at what they do.
• When wounded, they become more aggressive.
• Faith and perseverance are the hallmarks of a good Lion-like leader.
• They have the ability to work within teams.
• They can also compete if the occasion demands that the winner takes all.
• They naturally avoid very strong competition but when pushed to the wall they can win any competition.
Crocodile Leadership Qualities:
• These leaders are very comfortable in
their area of influence and prefer to be masters in that area than to explore new territories.
• They are very strong willed
• They are very patient.
• They are thinkers and it takes them time to think through ideas and take action.
• After making a decision, they swing into action with such a swift, powerful and overwhelming intensity and they often win because they take others by surprise.
• They get prepared and then wait for opportunities to come and try their best to cease it.
• They like retreating after any huge success to evaluate and ease off.
• They are very sensitive to their environment and often know when opportunities arise.
• They may have a few people in other places who give them valuable information.
• They can survive in any industry within their locality (masters of the area)
Eagle-leadership style:
• Leaders are high fliers and have very high targets.
• They are task oriented.
• They are autocratic and not democratic.
• They have good self esteem as a result of orientation and performance.
• They are often well groomed in their area of business.
• They have foresight which is the ability to envisage things that may happen in the future.
• They have the ability to take full responsibility for success or failure of projects.
• They don't have time for mediocrity or to hang around never-do-wells.
• They are risk takers
• The Eagles beak is well formed and very strong. Once in their comfort area, they can overcome any challenge.
What Kind of Animal Leader are you?
Effective Leadership
The Duck Pond
Ducks are fostered by self-serving leaders or organisations, who create duck ponds. Ducks are often managed by a supervisor called “The HeadMallard.” Ducks quack and quack the party line and are not empowered to solve problems and make decisions.
This is common as organisations come to terms with new ways of working, changes in leadership and challenging external pressures. This is common in new organisations as the group start to align behind a new direction and trust is developed at all levels.
The Seagull It’s harder than ever to avoid becoming a
“seagull manager” these days. That’s when you fly in, make a lot of noise, dump on
everyone, and then fly away again. It’s a hit-and-run management behaviour that’s easy to fall into when you find yourself with too much on your plate and too little time to accomplish it.
How are you doing with the double
challenge of accomplishing your own work
while still managing the work performance
of others?
Ducks Quack-Eagles Soar!
Great leaders/organisations
develop and empower the people
around so that the leader can
watch the accomplishments of
those around them and be there
when they need help. The leader
is not there to dictate every little
move others make, but there to
help them see the big picture and
priorities.
Working Together
Being Gung Ho!
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We can all be Geese....
Anyway……
People are often unreasonable, illogical and self-centred Love them anyway
If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives Be kind anyway
If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies Succeed anyway
If you find serenity and happiness, others may be jealous Be happy anyway
Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable Be honest and frank anyway
People may need help but attack you if you help them Help them anyway
What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight Build anyway
The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow Do good anyway
Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough Give the world the best you have anyway
Adapted from Anyway, written by Dr Kent M Keith
