DEVELOPING A SENIOR LEADERSHIP RECRUITMENT & RETENTION POLICY

The conference aims to identify ways, in which leadership posts in LA schools can change and develop so that

• existing senior leaders will want to stay longer in them
• existing teachers and middle leaders will be more likely to aspire to them
• more deputy and assistant heads will aspire to headship
• the additional demands imposed by the ECM and 14-19 agendas can be addressed effectively

Planned outcomes

• broad agreement about the work that needs to be done at individual school, school network and LA Level
• a list of key priorities at each level for 2007-08
• an agreed joint mechanism for taking the detailed planning process forward

SUGGESTED PROGRAMME

0930 Welcome
Conference aims and planned outcomes

0945 Senior Leadership Demographics

• the national situation
• the local situation

1000 Group Discussion – The Implications for the LA
Brief Feedback

1015 Making School Senior Leadership More Attractive

• for existing senior leaders
• for deputies with headship potential
• for teachers and middle leaders

Group Discussion

11.00 Coffee

11.15 Feedback from groups – 2 ideas per target group flipcharted from each discussion group

11.35 Plenary – Defining The Key Challenge the LA Faces

11.50 Identifying Possible Solutions - Research
Price Waterhouse Coopers Report on School Leadership
Rush to the Top – Hay Group
How to Grow Leaders – Hay Group

Summary from Nigel Middleton

12.30 Lunch

1.30 Identifying Possible Solutions - Emerging Practice
Alternative School, School Network and Extended School
Leadership Structures

Presentation from Nigel Middleton on work in progress seen around the country

2.15 Identifying the three key things that need to happen in the LA

• group discussion
• feedback
• plenary discussion to agree a final list

2.45 Agreeing a structure to devise and deliver the chosen strategies

3.15 Summary
Next steps
Evaluations

3.30 Conference close and tea

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