Tag: School leadership

Facilitating blended professional development of school leaders in Rwanda with evolved trainer roles

by Loran Pieck and Lieve Leroy | Feb 7, 2024 | Learning

Rwanda has been leading the way in digital transformation in education. A variety of policies exist which emphasise the use of ICTs in education to improve quality in teaching, learning and research, and consequently in CPD. Read More

Thinking again about agency for inclusion: Analysing leadership data through local and global perspectives

by Deborah Cooper, Freda Wolfenden and Saraswati Dawadi | Nov 23, 2023 | 2023 UKIFET Conference, Teachers

How can leaders be supported to initiate small local changes in schools and classrooms in ways that provide agency and have the potential for scaling? What happens with a bottom-up approach to change and how far does the status quo move in communities? Read More

The context behind the context: A revealing approach to appreciating leadership

by Developmental Leadership Program (DLP) | Jun 19, 2023 | Teachers

Everything exists in a context. Fish swim in water, humans live in families, and planets endlessly circulate in each other’s gravitational fields. When it comes to leadership, leaders are located in their local context – societies that embody and enact cultural understandings. Read More

A Systems Approach to Improve Support for School Leaders and Education Officers to Prioritise Teaching and Learning

by Gautam Anand, Dewi Susanti and Tien Sing Tay | Feb 21, 2023 | Learning

The RISE Education Systems Diagnostic is a tool for identifying strategic priorities for education system reform. In the fourth blog in this series, we hear from Global School Leaders, one of the organisations that piloted the Diagnostic in 2022. Read More

Lessons from a school leadership improvement pilot in Uganda

by Juliet Kotonya and Geeta Gambhir | Oct 14, 2021 | Teachers

This blog was written by Juliet Kotonya, Research Manager, and Geeta Gambhir, Researcher at the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER). It was originally published...

Rwanda Learning Partnership: Insights on school and system leadership during COVID-19

by UKFIET | Sep 29, 2021 | COVID-19

This article was written by Education Development Trust and published on the Education Development Trust website in September 2021. During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in...

Learning Renewed: a safe way to reopen schools in the Global South

by Education Development Trust | Oct 5, 2020 | COVID-19, Learning

This article was written by Education Development Trust, who, like other organisations in the sector, we have been pivoting their programmes and research in response to COVID-19...

Charting a New Course: Education Systems After COVID-19

by Dzingai Mutumbuka and Marla Spivack | Oct 1, 2020 | COVID-19, Learning

This blog was written by Dzingai Mutumbuka, Chairman of the Zimbabwe National Commission for UNESCO, and Marla Spivack, RISE Research Manager and Research Fellow at Harvard...

The world post-COVID-19 might be the world pre-Incheon – or even pre-Dakar

by Sheldon Shaeffer | Jun 3, 2020 | COVID-19, Early Childhood

This blog was written by Sheldon Shaeffer, Chair of the Board of Directors, Asia-Pacific Regional Network for Early Childhood (ARNEC). It was originally published on the ARNEC...

What we’re learning in this pandemic that illuminates the path to transforming education

by Wendy Kopp | May 27, 2020 | COVID-19, Learning

This article was written by Wendy Kopp, CEO and Co-founder of Teach for All and was originally published on the Teach for All blog on 30 April 2020. COVID-19 school closures have...

Voices from the front lines of Education

by Opportunity EduFinance | May 22, 2020 | COVID-19

This blog was written by Opportunity EduFinance and originally published on the Opportunity EduFinance website on 7 May 2020. As schools remain closed across the globe due to...

3 recommendations to support school leaders during the coronavirus pandemic

by Sameer Sampat and Azad Oommen | May 15, 2020 | COVID-19, Teachers

This blog was written by Sameer Sampat and Azad Oommen, Global School Leaders and originally published on the Global Partnership for Education website on 4 May 2020. Whether they...