Building capacity through Systems Leadership

VISION: Building on the Statement of

Ambition, AVS is committed to achieving the best possible outcomes for the children and young people of Angus.

PURPOSE, APPROACH AND VALUES

Our PurposeWe will work with school and partners to secure sustainable

improvement.

Our ApproachIn partnership with others we will:

• Promote and develop the best learning and teaching• Use evidence and data to inform improvement

• Develop a culture of innovation and exploration

• Recognise, model and grow leadership at all levels

Our Values

IntegrityWe conduct ourselves with honesty and mutual respect at all times.

We foster positive relationships with all.

We are open to challenge and willing to challenge others.

CreativityWe are open-minded.

We are responsive and adaptive to new and complex challenges.

We approach our work from different angles and perspectives.

CollaborationWe actively listen to others because we don’t think we know all the answers.

We nurture purposeful partnerships to achieve more than we could alone.

We are committed to joint professional practice development.

InclusionWe embrace and promote equity and equality.

We support everyone to be the best they can be.

We recognise and celebrate success.

AVS leadership:

• Systems approach

• influence and ‘nudge’, not formal power

• alignment around common vision or purpose: improved outcomes for service users

• a focus on the outcomes and results, not the process – engaging with

• strong but robust and honest relationships - ‘High challenge – high support’ – getting balance right between practice and policy and relational trust

• a mind set, rather than specific actions and behaviours

• Co production and reciprocity

• Ask different types of questions – accept and embrace uncertainty

• Take on multiple perspectives (dance floor and balcony)

• Develop a systemic vision

• Look at the whole picture; take a step back to see what’s possible – Adaptive leadership

Keeping it real…Making connections

Challenges

• Resource matters! – Need a ‘critical’ mass

• Operational/reactive: Everybody on the ‘dance floor’

• Lack of clarity of LEA legal responsibilities for ensuring quality of educational provision (Education Act 2016) v HT/school autonomy

• Who is the community? – conflicting interests

• How do we make improvement sustainable?

Theodore Roosevelt :

“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are”

‘Who do you choose to be? An Invitation to the Nobility of leadership’, Margaret Wheatley