Save the date - Autumn Term 2023 Headteacher Conference

Thursday 19th October 2023 (10.00am – 3.00pm - final times tbc)

Stareton Hall, Stoneleigh Park (NAEC), Stoneleigh, Kenilworth, CV8 2LZ

Warwickshire Works: Shaping Innovation out of Adversity

Post pandemic Britain is beset by a cost-of-living crisis and recession, the public sector is on its knees. The privilege of our role as educators is that we have influence, and we have choice. As a collective do we hunker down, narrowing our horizons and our aspirations for our pupils…. or, do we innovate, pressing forward together to provide the best and inspire others to follow?

This conference aims to help you as leaders uphold innovation in the face of adversity, to facilitate discussion and to share positive ways of leading education and continuing to provide the best for our pupils in these challenging times.

There will be presentations from WCC teams across education services, providing updates on partnership work, strategies, projects and, innovations to support schools going forward. We are also delighted to confirm the attendance of two fabulous and sought after keynote education speakers.

Keynote Speaker 1

David Hodgson

A wonderfully entertaining and charismatic speaker, David cut his teeth working in careers in the North East of England and created a system that took the best of personality profiling and made it real and relevant for young people. In recent years, David has become increasingly sought-after for his work looking at the neuroscience of learning, memory and achievement, something he puts across in a way that is entertaining, accessible and meaningful. It is David’s ability to take complicated and challenging insights into human nature and achievement and make these principles accessible and understandable that is part of his personal effectiveness and popularity. That, and the fact that he also comes up with creative and straightforward strategies and approaches that allow all elements of the school community to use these new distinctions to good effect.

Keynote Speaker 2

Andy Vass - Education Coach and Mentor in Leadership

When Andy suggests that leadership is about ‘people, change, bravery and people’, he is serious about the people bit. Any leader’s ability to get people on board boils

down to the power of that leader's ability to communicate. This is where Andy Vass can help.

Andy has the rare gift of being able to translate complex ideas and insights about the nature of achievement, human interactions and organisational change into clear down-to-earth language that is accessible and eminently practical.

Andy has over 40 years' experience working in schools and with schools, across the UK and internationally with organisations and individuals to support successful improvement. Andy does this through developing positive behaviours, emotionally intelligent relationships and solution focused coaching cultures.

Full agenda to follow early next week.