Programs

Leading Across Effective Small Schools

Deakin University’s Centre for Educational Leadership and Renewal runs the Leading Across Effective Small Schools program for the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development, Victoria.  This is a professional learning program for current and aspirant school leaders.  It is part of the Learning to Lead Effective Schools initiative.

Up to 90 teachers and leaders from small schools participate in this program annually.  The program is open to teams of leaders from small schools.  A team comprises a cluster of six to seven small schools (Schools with seventy students or less).

The Leading Across Effective Small Schools program is designed to enhance participants’ leadership capabilities through working collaboratively on an improvement area.

The program aims to:

• Improve participants' skills in strategic thinking and planning within and across small schools
• Develop participants' understanding of change management and its implications for school improvement
• Increase participants' understanding of the Effective Schools Model and its relevance fro leaders within and across small schools
• Strengthen participants' ability to develop purposeful relationships in order to achieve shared goals.

For further information about this course, please go to:
www.education.vic.gov.au/proflearning/schoolleadership/program/smallsch.htm