Building Leadership Capacity

First-time Principal Induction Programme

Aims

To strengthen the capacity of newly appointed principals to lead at a whole-school level, equipping them with the knowledge, skills, and professional networks required to deliver sustained improvement and high-quality educational outcomes.

The year long programme covers a range of leadership and management issues including:

Finance and LMS Human Resources Legal Issues SEND Implementation Working with Governors Leading Ethos Leading and Managing Chan Futher Information

https://www.eani.org.uk/services/training-and-development/teacher-professional-learning/school-leadership-tpl/first-time-0

Teacher Tutor Development

Aims

The service offers a range of in person and online professional learning opportunities for Teacher Tutors. These are communciated directly with teachers who register with the EA.

Futher Information

https://www.eani.org.uk/services/training-and-development/teacher-professional-learning/learning-and-teaching-tpl/early-5

 

First-time Vice-Principal Programme

Aims

To strengthen the strategic and instructional leadership of newly appointed vice-principals, equipping them to lead whole-school improvement, enhance learning and teaching, and contribute effectively to senior leadership within their school context.

The year long programme is facilitated over nine days. The learning is centred around the three domains of leadership practice:

Leading Ethos - vision and values Leading Learning - emotionally intelligent leadership and making conversations count Leading Improvement - planning for improvement and leading learning and teaching Futher Information

https://www.eani.org.uk/services/training-and-development/teacher-professional-learning/school-leadership-tpl/first-time

Coaching Service for School Principals

Aims

To support school principals to continue to lead effectively in an increasingly demanding climate and to raise awareness of the value of coaching.

Each participating principal is provided with seven hours of one- to-one coaching over a twelve to eighteen-month period, focusing on building and sustaining their resilience and leadership capacity.

This service is offered in partnership with Lena by Inspire.

Futher Information

https://www.eani.org.uk/services/teacher-professional-learning/school-leadership-tpl/coaching-service-for-school-principals

School Leader as Coach

Aims

To support school leaders in embedding a coaching approach within their schools, promoting professional dialogue, reflective practice, and a sustainable culture of growth and development.

Through participation in action-learning sets and engagement in self-directed learning, participants will:

develop knowledge and understanding of coaching practice and how it can be utilised for leading, empowering and building the capacity of staff develop coaching practice to support school improvement take responsibility for their own professional learning, develop their reflective practice and relate this to improvement in pupil outcomes.  Futher Information

https://www.eani.org.uk/services/teacher-professional-learning/school-leadership-tpl/school-leader-as-coach

 

Organisational Development, culture and learning

ODL Portfolio April 26 - March 2027. A range of training, learning and development across the full year 

Futher Information

https://eani.pagetiger.com/eani-learning-and-development-portfolio

The Engine Room - Building the Capacity of Middle Leadership

Aims

The aim of this programme is to build capacity of middle leaders to lead school improvement, in order to develop high quality learning experiences and improve outcomes for pupils. It supports middle leaders to make a positive difference to learners by enhancing their leadership capacity. 

This programme consists of three half-day face-to-face sessions, facilitated by Education Partners from the EA School Development Service.  

Sessions provide opportunities for participants to engage in high quality professional dialogue with peers and to apply what they learn to their leadership practice. Sessions will focus on the following key questions: 

Session 1

What is my role and responsibility as a middle leader? How do I develop a compelling vision that motivates others? What does my leadership feel like to those I lead? How do I know how good we are as a team?

Session 2

How do I create a culture which fosters improvement within my team? How do I know what works? How do I plan effectively for improvement?

Session 3

How do I build an effective team? How do I manage resistance to change? How do I secure accountability?

These sessions are intended as a starting point for participants to consider exploring and developing one or more of the above themes in more detail, which they may wish to pursue with their designated Education Partner. Participants will attend all sessions and will be supported to engage in inquiry-based practice between sessions. 

Please note: This programme is available to ALCs or individual schools and can be accessed through the school's Education Partner or ALC Link Officer.

Making self-evaluation and school development planning meaningful, manageable and impactful

The aim of this programme is to deepen your understanding of school development planning as a process, underpinned by the school’s strong guiding vision and purpose, informed by rigorous self-evaluation and educational research, devised in consultation with stakeholders and in compliance with DE policy. 

Participants will attend two half-day face-to-face workshops, facilitated by Education Partners, in which they will be invited to explore themes relevant to self-evaluation and planning for improvement, considering how they can be applied in the context of their school. 

The core themes covered in the workshops are designed around a series of questions as follows: 

Rationale – Why do we need a school development plan and what needs to be in one?  Self-evaluation – How do we develop a robust evidence-base of all aspects of school life, upon which to build a manageable, meaningful school development plan which positively impacts on our pupils and their outcomes?  Prioritisation – What are the challenges and opportunities we face and what are our emerging priorities over the next three years?  Planning for Improvement – What are the characteristics of effective planning for improvement? 

Each workshop will provide opportunities for professional dialogue and the sharing of practice, approaches and resources that can be used by schools to enhance their existing self-evaluation and improvement planning processes and structures. These sessions are intended as a starting point for participants to consider exploring and developing one or more of the above themes in more detail, which they may wish to pursue with their designated Education Partner. Participants will attend both sessions and take their thinking back to share with colleagues in their schools. .

Please note: This programme is available to ALCs or individual schools and can be accessed through the school's Education Partner or ALC Link Officer.