NPQSL (Online Year 5) Session 1 – Strategic Leadership for Improvement

During this session you will learn how to:

• Analyse performance data to identify the causes of variation within a school and against comparative schools (for example in relation to national benchmarks, historical performance or between different groups), routinely adopting a proportionate approach in the collection and use of data
• Ensure data collected is necessary, proportionate and manageable for staff
• Design and implement sustainable change across a school
• Lead, motivate and influence others, including beyond the line management chain, to deliver whole-school objectives
• Develop a communications plan that promotes or defends the school’s performance, policies or decisions effectively

Learn about:

• Sources of internal, national and socio-economic data that can inform pupil progress and identify underachievement (for example, Progress 8 and the EEF’s Families of Schools database)
• Statistical and data analysis concepts, including confidence intervals, statistical significance, sampling, correlation and causation
• Data collection best practice, including the principles and recommendations identified by the ‘Making Data Work’ report (2018) and the clarification of Ofsted inspection requirements
• Research into the characteristics of successful change programmes, drawn from a range of schools and non-school contexts
• Research into, and examples of, leadership, motivation and influence, drawn from a range of schools and non-school contexts
• Examples of successful communications plans and techniques used by schools