GRJ Education: Leadership Reconnector Programme

Event Description

Based on the success of the recent Reconnector programmes GRJ Education have led over the past two years, we are delighted to welcome colleagues from the 2023/2024 cohort to “reconnect” for three 90-minute digital units spread throughout this academic year.

Units are led by Gareth and colleagues from our GRJ-SCIS team, and are planned to use the content of last year’s programmes throughout, as a catalyst to enable

• reflection on the impact that last year’s programme has had, both personally and in the wider-school context
• the sharing of professional priorities and ambitions for 2024/2025, and evaluation of their progress throughout the year
• the sharing of successes and continued challenges, and discussion of tactics to enhance further success and overcome the challenges.

This Reconnector cohort is limited to a maximum of 12, so it allows some intense work together as well as an opportunity to develop a formula which will – most importantly – work for you to maximise impact. We will devote some time to discussing this formula during unit one.

Unit one (Monday October 7^th 2024 19.30-21.00)

Six months since programme completion – the opportunity to share and discuss: 

• One personal priority/ambition, one team priority/ambition and one whole school priority/ambition which you hope to achieve within a 12-month period
• How you intend to measure their success, and by when
• What you predict might be your biggest professional challenge this year. 

Unit 2 (Monday January 27^th 2025 19.30-21.00) 

Mid-point re-group and success criteria review: 

• What is working well thus far, and why?
• What challenges still exist, why and how might these be overcome?
• Where am I with my own Professional Learning (PL)? 

Unit 3 (Monday May 12^th 2025 19.30-21.00) 

End-point re-group and success criteria review: 

• What has been the outstanding success/es of this year, and why?
• What hasn’t worked, and why?
• What are my professional priorities and ambition for 2025/2026, and why? 

Extra note 

During the past two years of running this Reconnector, we have sustained and developed further some fabulous professional relationships with our colleagues – and 1-1 support often goes way beyond the programme brief, which is absolutely fine –  exactly as we like it!

  **NB Colleagues registering for the first module will automatically be registered on the remaining ones**