SEND: Legacy of Leadership

Every school leader needs to know how to ensure that the needs of complex and vulnerable learners are met in their school. Aimed at mainstream school leaders, this series of three webinars is designed to gradually build on and develop the knowledge, skills and behaviours that school leaders increasingly need to maximise the outcomes of all learners.

Session 3: Legacy of Leadership

In this third session participants will reflect on SEND at a strategic and executive level, in their sense-making and decision-making.

They will learn about the role that communities of practice can play in providing solutions to local problems, in mutually supportive and collaborative ways. They will be introduced to tools that can support in the development of robust and challenging but supportive governance of SEND.

Finally, participants will explore how an inclusive culture secures a lasting legacy of outstanding outcomes for all learners.

Other sessions in the NPQ Enrichment series include:

• SEND: Foundations in Leadership - 29th November 2022
• SEND: Building Distributed Leadership - 19th January 2023

* This series is being delivered by Whole School SEND / nasen in collaboration with the following Teaching School Hubs across the NWLSC region, funded places are available for colleagues participating in an NPQ programme in the following Hubs:

• Alban Teaching School Hub
• Astra Teaching School Hub
• Balcarras Teaching School Hub
• Berkshire Teaching School Hub
• Central London Teaching School Hub
• Chiltern Teaching School Hub
• Northamptonshire Teaching School Hub
• North West London Teaching school Hub
• Oxfordshire Teaching School Hub
• Teach West London

This series is free to attend as part of the DfE’s Universal SEND Services contract. As such, user data such as school, role, type of setting, and any impact data will be shared with the participating Teaching School Hubs, Whole School SEND, nasen and the DfE.

Matt McArthur is the Assistant Headteacher at Frank Wise School in Banbury, a special school for children and young adults aged between 2 and 19. Matt currently teaches in both primary and secondary classes, and is the subject-leader for Numeracy. He was Director of Teaching School at the school for five years, and continues to support the new Oxfordshire Teaching School Hub with SEND-specific strands of Continuing Professional Development, School-to-School support and Initial Teacher Training. Matt also works for Whole School SEND, delivering the Department for Education’s Universal Services contract, helping the school and FE workforce to support children and young people with SEND. He has just finished a Masters degree in Educational Leadership and is currently doing his NPQH.

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Our online events aim to be interactive and at times you may be expected to have your camera and microphone on during the session, although usually your microphone should be muted.

We may use ‘Raised Hands’, ‘Reactions’, ‘Chat’, ‘Polls’, shared whiteboards and shared screens during the session. We may also use ‘Breakout Rooms’ to allow you to work in a smaller group.

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