You believe in and want to deliver a Big Education – one which encompasses the head, the heart and the hand. Creating schools which focus on this bigger purpose is a wonderful challenge – one which takes great teams of people working collaboratively to this end. This course will help you create, develop and grow aligned teams who can think and act in new ways, and become your means of achieving a bigger education in your school. 

Working with teams and making change has many challenges and complexities – managing team dynamics, competing agendas and personalities, managing colleagues who are not performing or who are resistant to change. And then when we add in seeking to ask really big questions about how you want your school to be, what the big vision is, it is clear that achieving this alone is near impossible to do. If you are to achieve your mission, you will need to develop a team of changemakers.

This course will equip you with a range of strategies to strengthen the relationships and ways of working within your team, and give you practical approaches to managing some of the most tricky bits, like how we manage conflict. 

Our aims

• In this course, we will guide you through some profound learning and practical approaches.
•  You will finish the course with access to a range of leadership tools to use straight-away, and which you will keep coming back to over time as you work with your team
• The course combines practical experience and insights with theory and research, giving you credible and practical tools to use with your team
• You will have the opportunity to learn from, and interact with, an experienced school and system leader who has a proven track record of developing high-performing teams. In service of a big education. There will be lots of space for discussion and questions.
• You will learn as part of a community of other changemaker leaders. You will have access to a community forum to share ideas, resources and tips. This does not end when the course ends – rather, it forms the basis of a network of leaders all trying to develop a Big Education.
• You will contribute to the conversation. We would like you to not be a passive participant but rather an active member of the community.