Professional Learning Events

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

MESSY Leadership - to register click here

At this point in the school session when attention is turned to reviewing the progress made throughout the current session and planning for the next, we hear from school leaders who are taking an ‘Agile Leadership' approach to school improvement planning.

We are delighted to be joined at this event by George Docherty (Headteacher at Marr College, Troon), Kenny Bell (PT Guidance at Marr College, Troon) and Derek Paterson (Depute Headteacher at Larbert High School) who will talk about the impact that Agile Leadership is having on planning for improvement in their school communities.

Join us to find out more about the approaches being taken.

Taking an Agile Leadership approach to improvement planning: To register click here

This event is open to both members and non-members.

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, Guch Dillon and David Drysdale (HMIE Secondary Leads), and senior leaders from schools across the country about good practice identified during inspection activities in the key Quality Indicators from How Good is Our School?

Senior leaders from the following schools will present at the individual events:

QI 1.3

Deans Community High School, West Lothian

Queen Victoria School, Dunblane

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

SLS and Self-Harm Network Scotland (SNS) would like to invite you to our Self-Harm Awareness training and workshop event. Self-harm Network Scotland is passionate about raising awareness and reducing stigma around self-harm. Their aim is to develop and deliver informative and accessible training and resources to help improve understanding of self-harm.

The session will allow you to learn more about strategies for supporting those who self-harm and covers the following topics:

• What is self-harm?
• Who self-harms?
• How do people self-harm?
• Why do people self-harm?
• The time, space, compassion principles
• Starting the conversation about self-harm
• Harm minimisation
• Resources and support available

SNS are also keen to hear of the experiences of staff in schools who support those who self-harm to further develop their approaches and supports.

This in-person session will practical advice for those who support young people who self-harm and will be delivered by Darren Boyd, Penumbra Network Manager, and other colleagues from the charity.

This event is open to both members and non-members.

Lunch and all refreshments will be provided.

For further information and to book on this free webinar for members and non members, please click HERE 

Venue :  High School of Glasgow

Full Details to follow shortly 

In 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.

Capacity is set at 25 for each of the workshops and early registration is advised.

THIS IS AN IN PERSON EVENT AT MURRAYSHALL HOTEL, SCONE, PERTHSHIRE

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,

Guch Dillon and David Drysdale (HMIE Secondary Leads), and senior leaders from schools across the country about good practice identified during inspection activities in the key Quality Indicators from How Good is Our School?

Senior leaders from the following schools will present at the individual events:

QI 2.3

Turnbull High School, East Dunbartonshire

Holyrood Secondary School, Glasgow

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 QI2.3 - register here

For further information and booking procedure please click HERE 

Join us at this event as we hear from Patricia Watson, Strategic Director – Education Scotland, Guch Dillon and David Drysdale (HMIE Secondary Leads), and senior leaders from schools across the country about good practice identified during inspection activities in the key Quality Indicators from How Good is Our School?

Senior leaders from the following schools will present at the individual events:

QI 3.1

Stonelaw High School, South Lanarkshire

Wallace High School, Stirling

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 BELOW  

Good Practice in key Quality Indicators QI3.1 - register here

Join us at this event as we hear from Patricia Watson, Strategic Director – Education Scotland,Guch Dillon and David Drysdale (HMIE Secondary Leads), and senior leaders from schools across the country about good practice identified during inspection activities in the key Quality Indicators from How Good is Our School?

Senior leaders from the following schools will present at the individual events:

QI 3.2

Queensferry High School, Edinburgh

Girvan Academy, South Ayrshire

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 here: 

Good Practice in Key Quality Indicators QI3.2 - register here

A very warm invitation is extended to all Business Managers to join us at our first mini- conference for this group of members. Full day of presentations, discussions, lunch.

Following on from our first online Business Mangers Forum held on Thursday, 14^th March, we will continue our discussions of many of the topics and issues raised.

Members £20

Non Members £35

(We would encourage HTs to support the release of Business Managers to allow their attendance at this event.)

For further information and booking procedure please click HERE