I recently enrolled in a webiner from The Leadership and Learning Centre which is located in Colardo, USA. I learnt several valuable lessons:
- In America most schools are called buildings and so the title refers to transforming school plans into student results and here I thought I was actually looking at physical buildings plans.
- That when I get an email saying the conference is starting tomorrow [USA time] it actually means I’ve got to be up at around 1.00 am to participate.
I did get the Powerpoint presented at the webinar and it makes several really good points worth noting that will inform my practice as a leader in a school. The last point has really challenged my practice.
- The number of goals is inversely related to gains in student achievement
- The “rule of six” – no more goals than you can monitor monthly – that is rarely more than six goals
- If you don’t monitor frequently, it doesn’t make any difference how “important” the goal is – people will ignore it
