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A BRIDGE FROM SOCIAL DEPRIVATION TO ACADEMIC ATTAINMENT?
Rosemary McGuinness 23rd November 2009
Practice of Distributed Leadership:
Leadership
Social Deprivation Academic Attainment
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60schools
Comparative academic attainment
Cuckoo HallIn top 3
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Comparative facts on top 3 schools in borough regarding academic attainment:
Cuckoo Hall School A School B
Outstanding Outstanding Good
36.5% 0% 1.7%
48% 0% 0%
Leadership
SEN
Free School Meals
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Pupils attainment on entry to (Cuckoo Hall) is well below expectations
Ofsted Inspection Report
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Bottom 6 Schools for academic attainment
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Share same characteristics with Cuckoo HallSEN provision ranged from 32% to 48%(Cuckoo Hall’s was 36%)Free School Meals ranged from 40% to 58%(Cuckoo Hall’s was 48%)On Leadership, 3 schools were judged good, 3
satisfactory(Cuckoo Hall was outstanding)
Leadership – the distinguishing feature
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TransactionalTransactional TransformationalTransformational
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Relies on compliance (Burns)
Planning, controlling, resourcing (Kotter)
Exchange of valued things (Burns)
Change in purposes and resources for the better (Burns)
Developing a visionary stance (Kotter)
Two factor theory with each building on the other (Bass)
Leadership
Distributed Leadership
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Instruct Consult Delegate Facilitate Neglect
National College of School Leadership
GRONNSENGE
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Leader as hero rejected
Learning Organisation
Arygis & Schon
Single loop (detection and correction of errors) and double loop (interrogating the variables leading to wholescale change ) learning
Distributed Leadership
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Puts leadership practice at centre stage as opposed to being with the principal (Spillane)
Allows others to assume leadership either by design or default
Creates a learning culture (West Burnham)Embedding a shared culture (Busher;
Sergiovanni)
Research points
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Sample was stratifiedHow embedded is the visionOrganisational learningLeadership practice
Vision ..... Culture
“Everyone knows what we are working towards”
“colleagues are fantastic”
Equity featured highly with many respondents referring to the fact that the school is located in an area of deprivation....responses went beyond the need to merely educate with terms such as...
“academic excellence”
“raise standards”“achieve the best they can”
SCHOOL DEVELOPMENT PLAN
CULTURE
“close friends”“we get on so well”
Organisational Learning
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Formal learningPerformance Development InterviewsMentoringCoachingObservation of teachingPeer learning
Leadership
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We are all equally important
Leadership involve everyone else to lead
All of us are leaders..without us they can’t work it
“Visionary leaders articulate where a group is going but not how people will get there – setting people free to innovate, experiment and take calculated risks”
Goleman
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MCGUINNESS, R. (2009) “THE PRACTICE OF DISTRIBUTED LEADERSHIP: A BRIDGE FROM
SOCIAL DEPRIVATION TO ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT” INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF
LEARNING. VOL 16 NO. 5
Reference
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