Following on the 2017 spotlight on the foundations of leadership, leadership intelligences and pedagogical leadership, Chris Wright returns to Paris to present some challenges for leaders going forward. The session proposes to explore the future context for pedagogical leadership - ensuring that we are preparing students to thrive now and especially in their futures, curriculum design to meet students' needs, and how to establish and sustain a school culture to support this.  
​The spotlight is open to delegates who did not attend the School Leadership spotlight in 2017.

December 10, 2018

Venue:

British Council Invalides Center
Turner Room

9 rue de Constantine 75007 Paris

​Métro: Invalides


Member School: Early Bird 105€  (Late Fee: 125€)
Non-member School: Early Bird 130€ (Late Fee: 145€)
Booking for the event closes December 6 2018
Early Bird rate is offered until November 30 2018. Late fee runs from December 1-December 6 2018.

CHRIS WRIGHT is an experienced educational leader. He has been head of three schools, has worked in the tertiary sector in education research and teacher education and currently works at a school system level as Director of Education for a school company that runs 50 schools.

Mr Wright is an experienced national and international workshop leader with a special focus on facilitating workshops for school leaders and leadership programs. He is the co-author of a development course for the new IB Leadership Pathway and the author of InThinking’s School Leadership website. He recently delivered workshops at the IB Global Conference on preparing students’ to thrive in their future.
Mr Wright has always felt that it is a great privilege, as well as responsibility, to be a school leader. He believes ‘schooling’ is about human flourishing, developing the sense of ‘self’ and the nurturing of character.

The role of education is to help students to know themselves and prepare them to thrive and be responsible contributors in a fast changing and challenging world.


PROGRAMME (Schedule may change slightly)

0915 – 0930   Meet & Greet
0930 – 9:45   Welcome
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945-1100 Session 1: Pedagogical Leadership
This session invites you to think critically about the importance of being a pedagogical leader. “A pedagogical leader keeps the organization focused on the teaching and learning process among the children, staff, and families.” (Maggie Carter). So what does it mean to be a pedagogical leader and how do we develop a learning culture not only amongst the students but also staff?  

1115-1245   Session 2: Leadership for what kind of learning?
Schools have a responsibility to prepare students to flourish in their futures. The pedagogical leader’s role is to help teachers and students shape their future in a proactive way and not to be hostages to what might lie around the corner. So how do we do this? How do we make their learning matter? What skills and knowledge will our students need in a world which is changing rapidly? What sort of leadership will schools need to prepare our students to live in an increasingly globalised, technological and interconnected world?

1245-1345   Lunch

1345-1445   Session 3: Pedagogical Leadership and school culture
School culture affects the academic achievement of learners (Deal and Peterson,1999; van der Westhuizen et al). Another word for culture in relation to schools is ‘climate’. Research suggests that a positive school culture exercises an exceptionally positive influence on members of a school and is instrumental in directing the behaviour of both students and staff and achieving the goals of the school. It suggests that there is a relationship between an effective school culture and greater learner and educator motivation; dedicated and disciplined behaviour and good attendance; reduced failure and drop-out rates and involvement of the community and parents in supporting learning. In this session our professional inquiry will explore the key elements of school culture that can bring about this change. How can a school create a culture that might have to be counter to that from which students come?

1445-1530   Session 4: Developing collaborative cultures
Collaborative learning is all about people learning together. Transformative experiences in learning often take place when people are doing something together, whether it be kinaesthetic or cognitively working together to try and solve problems together. If they are engaged in that activity it is authentic learning. In this session we look at ways in which you can build up a collaborative culture amongst the staff.  You will leave with a toolbox of collaborative activities to take back into your school.