For school leaders who are, or are aspiring to be, a senior leader with cross-school responsibilities.

Grow your expertise as a senior school leader

Broaden your leadership knowledge and gain the specialist expertise needed to tackle your school improvement priorities.

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Create a culture where all pupils can succeed

Learn how to support the development of a positive, predictable and safe environment for pupils. Contribute to your school’s strategic direction, setting ambitious standards across the school and establishing an environment for pupil success.

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Build a supportive environment for colleagues and school leaders

Create a thriving environment in which all staff feel supported and valued.

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Join a passionate network striving for educational equality

Share experiences with other school leaders, learn how they’ve faced similar challenges and build a professional network that will support you throughout your career.

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Programme Structure

This 21-month programme (18 months’ delivery and three months for assessment) consists of a series of courses based on the DfE’s NPQ frameworks. Each course cycle features:

• Evidence-based online content to refresh and build knowledge, as well as exemplify what this looks like for your role and level of leadership
• A formative assessment task to support your learning
• A face-to-face seminar with a group of peers, facilitated by a serving school leader–you’ll analyse and reflect on the task and hear further examples of good practice
• The opportunity to record reflections and consolidate learning

This cycle repeats throughout the programme, with implementation a consideration in every course. Towards the end of the programme, you’ll also take a course focused specifically on effective implementation. This provides an opportunity to complete a significant but manageable change project as part of your role. There will be ongoing support through a seminar group and discussion forum.

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‍Programme Objectives

This programme will help you to:

• Develop as a leader with some areas of cross and whole school responsibility
• Access content across a breadth of areas, such as teaching, behaviour and professional development
• Be supported to effectively implement change and improvement in an area related to your role

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Modules include:

• School culture
• Teaching
• Curriculum and assessment
• Behaviour
• Additional and special needs
• Professional development
• Organisational management
• Implementation
• Working in partnership Governance and accountability