
How can you make your role matter as a middle leader?
What can you do as a middle leader to drive impact, change and the best outcomes?
The Middle Leadership Matters Seminar will provide expert guidance on how middle leaders can effectively use evidence and vision to inform the change process, work collaboratively and engage with stakeholders, and realise ambitions and successful outcomes.
The seminar will also explore how to implement your change strategy, looking at best practice approaches, interventions and priorities, and examine how best to monitor, evaluate and improve impact.
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What's on the agenda:
- Impactful change: assessing what we mean by impact and how to drive the best strategies, vision and outcomes as a middle leader
- Engaging with stakeholders: communicating your vision, utilising team strengths, collaborative working and overcoming challenges
- Your plan in practice: best practice implementation and evaluating impact
Agenda
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- 09.00
Welcome
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Steve BurnageExpert practitioner, consultant, and trainer
- Outline for the seminar
- Introductions
- Learning outcomes
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- 09.15
Middle leadership and impactful change
- What do we mean by impact?
- The role of middle leadership in driving change
- Understanding ‘what works best’ not just ‘what works’
- Engaging with evidence to inform the change process
Questions and comments
- 10.30
- Break
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- 10.45
Engaging with stakeholders
- Communicating your vision and mission for change
- Building on your team strengths and areas for development
- Working collaboratively to overcome resistance and difficulties
- Clarifying outcomes and celebrating success
Questions and comments
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- 12.00
Your plan in practice – implementation and evaluating impact
- Collaborative approaches
- Targeted intervention
- Putting high quality learning, teaching and progress at the heart of your role
- Continuous evaluation and monitoring strategies
Questions and comments
- 13.00
- End of the seminar
Speakers
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Steve Burnage
Expert practitioner, consultant, and trainer
Having spent over 25 years teaching and leading high schools across the UK, Steve is a sought after as an expert practitioner, consultant, and trainer. He specialises in developing effective school leadership; and the key areas of outstanding learning and teaching including inclusive learning, positive behaviour management, marking, feedback and assessment, performance management, staff development, coaching and mentoring and the performing arts.
Steve writes, delivers and hosts training and consultancy in schools, colleges, academies and conference venues throughout the UK, Europe, The Indian Subcontinent, Central and southern Asia and the Middle East as well as supporting organisations in planning, producing and delivering on-line and blended learning education courses.
Steve is a principal examiner and lead trainer for Cambridge International Examinations, The International Baccalaureate, and the British Council. In addition, Steve is the lead trainer for Cambridge online professional development across the world.
Steve writes a regular column for several UK education publications and is currently writing a teacher development training manual for an international publisher.