SLS Benefits
SLS is the leadership organisation for Secondary Schools in Scotland. Now representing HTs, DHTs, Faculty Heads,/PTs and Bursars/Business Managers, Private and Public Sector.
- 24 hour turnaround for legal and professional advice and support specific to school leaders
- Preferential access to high quality Professional Learning
- Network of professional support and advice across the country
- Represented in over 90% of Scottish Secondary Schools and all authorities in Scotland
- Fully affiliated to ASCL (Association of School and Colleges Leaders) and all their services and benefits
- A voice in national education policy including representation on all national education bodies.
Increasingly members are realising the importance of being in the association that speaks exclusively for secondary school leaders. As a school leader you need information that’s relevant to your role as a senior leader. As a result more and more leaders are joining SLS and benefiting from our support.
SLS Engagement
SLS represents the interests of Secondary School Leaders. The association puts forward the views of those who LEAD and so influences decision making at local and national level. You can view what the SLS Team do in representing members by accessing their diaries.
School Leaders Scotland Premier Partners
Current New Member Subscription Offer
Join now and enjoy HALF PRICE FEES until 30 June 2024
Depute Headteacher
£ 14.30
Per Month until end June 2024- Professional development courses
- Events & conferences
- Exceptional help & advice
- Access to Field Officer and General Secretary
- Access to first class legal advice & support
Faculty Head/Principal Teachers/Business Managers/BursarsMost Popular
£ 10.55
Per Month until end of June 2024- Professional development courses
- Events & conferences
- Exceptional help & advice
- Access to Field Officer and General Secretary
- Access to first class legal advice & support
Headteachers
£ 18.50
Per Month until end of June 2024- Professional development courses
- Events & conferences
- Exceptional help & advice
- Access to Field Officer and General Secretary
- Access to first class legal advice & support
Professional Learning Events
New Events announced – all by Webinar
A wide range of professional learning events developed to meet the needs of school management teams across Scotland. All Professional Learning events are open to members and non members.
Thank you to those Business Managers who completed our recent survey. The information will be invaluable as we begin to plan to support the professional learning of our Business Manager members in the future. A short summary of the survey findings is attached. We would strongly recommend that all SLS members, including Headteachers, read this short summary document.
Several respondents expressed their interest in being part of a national network of Business Managers, facilitated by SLS. To this end, we would like to invite our Business Manager members to an online Business Manager Forum to begin to discuss this and other areas of common interest.
There is no charge for this event
Business Managers - register here
The AGENDA can be found HERE
The uncommon sense of MESSY leadership and why striving to be the ‘perfect school leader’ may not be helping you.
School leadership is changing. Head teachers are leading in increasingly complex and uncertain environments and needing to draw on adaptive leadership expertise and collaborative approaches.
Global educational leadership experts, BTS Spark, conducted research during the pandemic to identify the characteristics of school leaders who were thriving despite huge uncertainties. The results described a radically different type of school leadership, ‘MESSY leadership’.
In this webinar, Denise Barrows, Head of BTS Spark, UK and Jean Crawford, BTS Spark Coach and Facilitator, will share key insights including the top nine challenges that education leaders are grappling with and seeking coaching support on. They will reveal the ‘uncommon sense of MESSY leadership’ – turning on its head old doctrine on what ‘effective school leadership’ entails. And they will offer some practical strategies for school leaders to trial as they free themselves up to embrace the wonderful ‘messiness’ of school leadership. Further information attached.
This event is open to both members and non-members.
Cost of attending: £40
n partnership with BTS Spark, we are delighted to offer full day, in-person Leader as Coach workshops.
The focus will be on integrating a coaching approach as a core leadership capability to support everyday powerful conversations as well as more formal performance reviews.
THIS IS AN IN PERSON EVENT AT MURRAYSHALL HOTEL, SCONE, PERTHSHIRE
Capacity is set at 25 for each of the workshops and early registration is advised.
This event is open to both members and non-members.
Cost of attending: £120
Lunch and refreshments provided.
Accommodation can be arranged at a reduced rate subject to availability.
Join us at this event as we hear from Patricia Watson, Strategic Director – Education Scotland, HMIE colleagues and senior leaders across the country about good practice that has been identified during inspection activities.
FULL DETAILS TO FOLLOW
This event is open to both members and non-members.
Member/Non-member: £40 per session/£140 to attend all four sessions
To Book click on the following
Good Practice in Key Quality Indicators QI1.3 - register here