An advanced strategic leadership opportunity for principals who have completed the foundational Strategic Leadership for Principals Programme (SLPP) or the Strategic Leadership for Rural Teaching Principals Programme (SLRTP).
This 2.5 day forum is designed specifically for principals from across Aotearoa looking to elevate their leadership skills and extend their impact beyond their immediate school community. Connect with a network of optimistic principals and experts from various fields outside of education to enhance your leadership capabilities and explore the power of networks, system-level transformation, and long-term strategic change.
What you will gain
By the end of the programme, you will:
- Broaden your professional network: You will expand your professional network, connect with experts, and learn from best practices from within and beyond the education sector.
- Develop and refine your system thinking mindset: You will learn about designing solutions for transformative change.
- Explore strategic execution: You will describe how you can contribute to delivering impact within and across systems.
- Strengthen data-driven decision making: You will consider how to use data to drive change and measurable impact
Programme outputs post-follow-up sessions:
- A tactical plan to address an issue or opportunity of system importance/relevance in your context.
- A measurement framework for the tactical plan
- A case study which can be shared across our network
Who it is for
This advanced programme is open to any principal who has completed SLPP or SLRTP and who wishes to enhance their strategic leadership capability for wider impact. Numbers are limited for this programme, and we will have one intake in 2024. Ideally participants will have:
- been at their current school for at least 12 months
- no major PLD commitments for the remainder of the year
- no Commissioner or Limited Statutory Manager in place at their school
It is also important that participating principals:
- have the support of their Board of Trustees
- enact the principles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi
- are willing to invest time post-forum to drive their chosen system-level initiative
Your commitment
- Time: 2.5-day residential programme with an online follow-up workshop.
- Cost: TBC for 2025 NB Travel and accommodation costs are also to be funded by the participant. If cost is a barrier to your participation, please let us know via the Expression of Interest form linked above and below.
How it works
The programme brings together about twenty participants. We will form groups within this cohort to work together on specific elements of the programme.
This programme is managed and facilitated by Springboard Trust alongside several of our most experienced volunteers and coaches from our partner network.
