Events

20 May 2010  –  21 May 2010

Viviane Robinson presents Building Relational Trust: leadership relationships that impact on student outcomes

Seminar

Seminar overview

Improving the social and academic learning of students requires the coordinated and focused effort of students, teachers, parents and school leaders. In schools where there are high levels of trust between these various groups, the hard work of improvement is more widely shared, more enjoyable and more sustained. Even more important, students make more progress in high trust than in low trust schools. An important question for school leaders, therefore, is “How do I build the level of trust in the areas of school life for which I am responsible?”

This two day seminar will focus on how to use ‘open-to-learning’ conversations to build trusting relationships. The BES School Leadership and Student Outcomes research findings about leadership practices that have a significant effect on student outcomes provides the context for building relational trust. The seminar will explain how to build trust through conversations that are deeply respectful of people and simultaneously tough on the problems that they need to address. It will offer participants both the understandings and the skills they need to build trust in their schools. It will include presentations of key ideas, video examples, small group practice and high quality feedback.

Through being at this seminar, participants will be able to:

• Deepen their understanding of the leadership dimensions important for high performing schools that give priority to improving student outcomes
• Accurately explain the key values and skills associated with open-to-learning conversations
• Understand the role of such conversations in leading teacher change and building trust in your school community
• Through guided practice and feedback, develop your skills in holding ‘open-to-learning’ conversations to support your leadership of the improvement of teaching and learning
• Plan and rehearse an ‘open to learning’ conversation to address an issue for which you are responsible.

Education

Organisation:

The University of Auckland Centre for Educational Leadership