Bob Drew is currently seconded part-time to the post of Leadership Adviser in Redbridge. This secondment aims to support the development of high quality leadership throughout all schools in the borough, and to stimulate Succession Planning activity. Current work in progress includes:
- Training for middle leaders
- An annual professional development programme for Assistant and Deputy Head Teachers, including an annual conference
- A targeted support programme for NPQH graduates, aspiring to their first headship
- Training for school governors in Succession Planning
- The creation and dissemination of support materials to school leaders on leadership themes, eg Talent spotting
- Raising awareness of emerging models of school leadership and their relationship to raising standards eg federations, all-through schools
- Workshop on the effective marketing of school vacancies
- Research into factors that affect women and BME teachers’ aspirations to leadership posts
- Whole school support for leadership teams
Future negotiations are underway to:
- find a way to effectively communicate leadership CPD opportunities to Redbridge teachers
- develop support for whole school leadership teams, by exploring the potential of different models of distributed leadership, and linking support across and between teams by focussing on creating an effective climate for the leadership of learning