Headteacher CPD Opportunity

Become a peer coach for fellow Headteachers

Coaching is a powerful force for change - change that can be long lasting and hugely influential. The power of coaching can transform your daily work; support professional and personal goal setting and generate a calm and focused state of mind, which helps challenge and change.

Learning and using a variety of coaching models will form an important skeleton of this series of CPD sessions

Leaders will be given immediate take away skills and also activities to practice at work, with staff, parents and governors. This course is supplemented by free coaching webinars, one per term, provided in conjunction with Gateway Alliance.  

The course sessions will be delivered by Catherine Nyman, an experienced professional coach, who many primary colleagues will know through her school improvement and coaching work.

It is anticipated that colleagues who attend this series of three training sessions - in addition to the webinars - would be willing to make themselves available for a register of Warwickshire headteacher peer coaches which could be shared with schools for an individual arrangement, or may be brokered by the LA school improvement team.  In view of the current situation for all heads, we would not expect to draw from this register until summer 2021 at the earliest.

Most headteachers who attend the training would be those from schools in categories A and B (from 2019 categorisation) and with good senior leadership capacity in their own schools, but we know that there will be colleagues in category C schools who will also feel in a secure position and would be happy to discuss this further.

Session One: 25.11.20

What is coaching and its place at work and at play

The richness of our landscape and effective leadership using coaching

Coaching tools and coaching models (Part i)

Session Two 13.1.20

Coaching tools and coaching models (Part ii)

Coaching for performance – long term leadership

Making a difference at a critical moment!

Session Three 28.4.20

Coaching tools and coaching models ( Part iii)

Using coaching with all our stakeholders

Coaching for resolution

Catherine is hoping to hold these sessions as face to face opportunities at Pound Lane Learning Centre in Leamington but this will be kept under review.

To express an interest or for further discussion, please contact:

margotbrown@warwickshire.gov.uk 07917 505157  or catherinenyman@warwickshire.gov.uk    07980 552963