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School Leadership That Cultivates Collective Efficacy: Emerging Insights 2022, Kerry Elliott, Hilary Hollingsworth, Aiden Thornton, Liz Gillies, Katherine Henderson Nov 2022

School Leadership That Cultivates Collective Efficacy: Emerging Insights 2022, Kerry Elliott, Hilary Hollingsworth, Aiden Thornton, Liz Gillies, Katherine Henderson

Educational leadership

The work of the Menzies School Leadership Incubator suggests we need a new approach to leadership that supports school leaders to better manage transformational change and deepen collaborative capacity necessary to cultivate collective efficacy to improve student learning outcomes. This paper provides a description of the work of the Menzies School Leadership Incubator (“the Incubator’) and insights generated so far. The Incubator has identified five leadership domains which underpin the leadership of Collective Efficacy; Understanding Collective Efficacy Systems; Leadership Change; Leadership Team, and Leadership Collaborative Capacity.


Menzies School Leadership Incubator: Insights, Adrian Field Jul 2021

Menzies School Leadership Incubator: Insights, Adrian Field

Educational leadership

The Menzies School Leadership Incubator (the Incubator) is a national trans-disciplinary initiative to design, test and learn about transformative innovations that will support lasting systems change in Australian schools’ leadership. This review explores the successes, challenges and learning from work in the Incubator to date, from the perspective of a collaborative seeking longstanding systems change. The design of the review is informed by thinking in the innovation literature, principally communities of practice and socio-technical systems theory. This review was undertaken as a rapid exploration of experiences and learning, drawing on interviews with eight individuals from within the Incubator (six interviews) …