School Leadership Courses and Training

With many years of experiencing in designing and delivering training, I can create a package that meets the needs of leaders in your school or trust. I draw on not only leadership theory, but a wide range of educational research to provide a unique blend of training that focuses on school improvement as well as leadership development. I ensure that all courses are transformational, enable colleagues to have real impact in school, and are firmly rooted in the practical. I thoroughly enjoy working with leaders at all levels, from aspiring leaders to those with many years of experience. I build on the knowledge and skills of the colleagues I work with, ensuring that training is a worthwhile investment both in terms of time and money.

Deputy headteacher training: New to role programmes or catalyst programmes for experienced leaders.

Assistant Headteacher training: Transitioning to leading on a whole school remit.

Phase leader training : Fantastic year-long programmes for all the phase leaders in your school (which develops peer relationships and team work as well as leadership skills), or for those new to role across a MAT.

Subject leadership development: A variety of different types of programme can be developed to support leaders to be effective in raising standards.

Full brochure of courses for teachers and leaders 2024/2025

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2024/2025 CPD programme for teachers and leaders

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Happiness at Work: Training and Coaching

If you are seeking a solution that raises employee wellbeing but also delivers on school wide benefits such as a more productive workforce, higher outcomes, improved workplace behaviours, reductions in staff absences, increased retention, greater stakeholder satisfaction, increased number of school goals achieved and higher levels of overall effectiveness - this could be the answer you are looking for. This is not just wellbeing, this is not tokenistic, this is about harnessing evidence from a wide range of industries on how happiness at work boosts outcomes and improves the employee experience of working in the organisation. Learn about the research, gain access to a 7 driver framework, take a new approach to assessing current levels of employee satisfaction, build a 3-year strategic plan that really will make a difference.

 

Training events can be designed for:

Senior leadership teams, assistant headteachers, middle leaders, teachers, teaching assistants and governors

Coaching for executives, headteachers, senior and middle leaders

If you have not undertaking coaching before, you might start by choosing from one of the eight coaching packages on offer.

As well as many years of school improvement experience, in which coaching plays an important part in the way I work with leaders, I now offer a suite specific coaching options for leaders. To further enhance my coaching skills, I am currently part way through completing the Institute of Leadership and Management Level 7 Coaching and Mentoring qualification with the University of the West of England. This is a rigerous course that is ensuring my practice is high quality. Whilst it is not a quick form of development, coaching is certainly a high impact form of leadership development. If you really want to be a great leader and have a fantastic, high functioning leadership team in your school I would recommend investing in coaching. The return on investment will be worth it! My current clients tell me that it has "exceeded expectations", that all the sessions have been highly relevant to their work and that it has enabled them to be more effective as a leader. You can book a free discovery meeting to learn more about coaching and consider if it is right for you.

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Training feedback “Informative, useful, insightful and clear.” “Delivered superbly, good content, exactly what we needed, clear instructions.” “Absolutely fascinating and very, very informative day. Well presented, great pace with blasts of information and solid opportunities to discuss.” “Fantastic - thanks Vicky - loved it! Best course I have done for years!” “Time to think, investigate, talk and challenge ourselves.” “Vicky created a safe environment to discuss some challenging issues openly and in a reflective manner.  The content flowed and was supportive of the role/issues that come at this level of management.” “A well thought out set of concepts to get us thinking.  A great opportunity to spend some time reflecting on our practice. I’ve learnt a lot today! I feel empowered and motivated to do more, more effectively and armed with ‘tools’ to make me a better teacher.” “Excellent.  Thank you for this valuable training.” “Data workshop was very useful. I actually feel like I understand data and am looking forward to using it to help me plan for the future.” “Interesting to look at how trends can be followed and ways to use data to make decisions and influence what goes on for individual sets of pupils.” “Got me really thinking about extending my questioning technique, a great mix of participation and ideas.” “It was enjoyable and fun but thought provoking.  I will try out these strategies”  “Challenged me to think at a higher level.” “Very interesting / practical and WILL make a difference!” “A wealth of ideas and starting points presented and debated. Thank you.”