Instructional Leadership

How to lead change where it impacts the most; through leading on teaching, learning and assessment

Mark Burns

▶️ Online Course | 🕘 2x Half Days

  • Evaluate your existing people, processes, systems, and tools.
  • Reflect deeply on your practice guided, by one of the UK’s leading experts.
  • Develop advanced practices to bring cohesion and clarity to your actions.
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£325.00 + VAT

£20.00 discount for additional delegates

Description

This online course is a programme that will equip school leaders with the insights, focussed reflection, tools and step by step guidance to significantly improve outcomes for all pupils. Led by expert Mark Burns, participants will develop actionable plans to foster a collaborative and high-performing school culture. Ideal for leaders at all levels, the course includes two sessions, full session recordings, and a certificate of completion. 

Transform your leadership and build a beautiful high performing school 
Evaluate your current position through a lens of Instructional Leadership.
Streamline school systems to reduce inefficiencies and focus on what truly matters.
Identify advanced practices to bring cohesion and clarity to your actions.
Develop action plans that translate into daily leadership habits that ensure continuous improvement.

Develop a collaborative learning culture that nurtures excellence and agency
Grow a sustainable and impactful learning culture within the staffroom.
Reduce the variance between the most and least effective teaching within our teams.
Establish feedback mechanisms that align with your end goals.
Build capacity and boost staff retention and motivation.

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Looking for a whole school model?
Try the Instructional Leadership Programme: align of all your processes, systems, and tools to an intense focus on teaching, learning and assessment to significantly improve learner outcomes.

Course Timetable

Day 1:

9:00am

Session 1

  • The six key building blocks to sustainably leading development of teaching, and why it is so hard!
  • Examine strategies to ensure there is sufficient processing capacity to move beyond ‘busy’ to focussing on developing performance within schools.

10:40am

Break

11:00am

Session 2

  • The dangers of ‘problem work’ and strategies to minimise it.
  • The foundation role that deep shared clarity plays in effective learning, teacher agency and key steps to achieving it.

12:00pm

End of Day 1

Day 2:

1:00pm

Session 3

  • Leveraging the power of feedback in supporting effective implementation of change. Systems and protocols that unlock the power of truthful feedback.
  • The key foundations that underpin effective feedback dialogue within teams.

2:30pm

Break

2:50pm

Session 4

  • Key leadership actions to ensure accurate feedback (both given and received) within teams.
  • Models for CPD that focus on performance development, not just developing teacher knowledge and understanding.

4:00pm

Evaluation and Close

Speaker Summary

Mark Burns
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Mark Burns is co-author of the best selling book ‘Engaging Learners’. He has a proven track record of improving teaching in both primary and secondary schools nationwide. Mark’s training combines his insatiable enthusiasm, humour and thought-provoking style with innovative, practical tools for teachers and school leaders.

Additional information

Each delegate will recieve:

  • Full session recording to replay, reflect and refresh and for long lasting impact.
  • A certificate.

This course takes place over 2 afternoon sessions to allow for reflection and review:

  • Wednesday 26th March 2025 AM
  • Thursday 24th March 2025 PM
Date

26th March 2025 & 24th April 2025
Duration

2x Sessions
Course Type

Leadership & Management
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