Thurrock Trailblazer Cultural Catalogue 2019-20

LEADERSHIP
TRAINING
LEARNING OUTCOMES
• Provide an extended opportunity for the Trailblazer Cultural Champions to connect,
learn and collaborate
• Enable the development and prioritisation of shared objectives and priorities
• Ensure effective engagement with the range of available resources to optimise
• Trailblazer opportunity for each school
• Provide focused Continuous Professional Development in leadership skills, including:
• Exploring the processes and challenges of change management
• Enhancing the potential for effectively managing change
• Increasing skills and confidence to lead a school initiative
• Focusing on reflective practice and discussion on progress
• Overview of planning and evaluation in the leadership context
Leadership Development Training is a sequential course, run by the Trailblazer Programme over
five sessions at High House Production Park, developing themes with leading strategic advisor
Katherine Zeserson. All Cultural Champions and their Deputies are required to attend these
sessions; taking part in the Cultural Champion Community is paramount to the success of your
school’s Trailblazer journey. As well as offering leadership training and guidance for measuring the
impact of your Trailblazer activities, you will share practice, resources and learning with Cultural
Champions from other schools.
OVERALL COURSE AIMS
SESSION AIMS
1. Setting off on your Trailblazer Journey
• To understand your Trailblazer programme potential and to focus your outcomes
• To frame your evaluation in your school context
• To identify your own learning needs
• To explore and establish thinking and learning partnerships
• To explore the Arts as a vehicle to cross curricular learning and school development
• To increase leadership skills and confidence
• To better understand planning and evaluation as a leader
• To enhance your potential for leading change
• To develop approaches to collaboration
• To deepen reflective practice
• To build community
2. Your leadership: what do you have and what do you need?
• To consider your leadership needs in the context of your Cultural Champion role
• To explore some different aspects and styles of leadership
• To focus your personal leadership challenge for the rest of the course
DATES
AUTUMN TERM
Monday 16 September 2019, 13:30-17:30
Trailblazer Introduction + Leadership Development Training 1
Tuesday 19 November 2019, 16:00-18:00
Leadership Development Training 2
SPRING TERM
Thursday 16 January 2020, 16:00-18:00
Leadership Development Training 3
Tuesday 31 March 2020, 16:00-18:00
Leadership Development Training 4
SUMMER TERM
Tuesday 19 May 2020, 16:00-19:00
Leadership Development Training 5 + Extension
3. Planning for change, planning for impact
• To develop understanding and skills in setting priorities in relation to impact
• To explore common barriers and challenges in leading change processes
• To explore effective strategies for leading change
4. Collaboration inside and outside of your schools
• To explore the value and potential of collaboration in meeting your goals
• To consider strategies for effective collaboration
• To develop some specific ideas for collaboration across the network
5. Now what and what’s next?
• To review and consolidate your own learning to date
• To develop your vision for the next steps in your leadership
• To share experiences and draw out key common learnings
• To offer learning to a wider audience of senior school leaders and other stakeholders
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