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Pillar 01

Leadership Development

A structured system that distributes authority, clarifies roles and routes decisions to the right level of the organisation.

Key Elements

Four elements of the model

A

Three-level leadership structure

Strategic, pedagogical and operational levels, each with a defined mandate and decision authority.

B

Decision-making framework

A decision matrix that routes each category of decision to the right level. Prevents both bottlenecks and gaps.

C

Governance forums

Leadership team, development group, pedagogical teams and PLCs, each with a clear purpose and meeting rhythm.

D

Leadership self-assessment

Leaders evaluate their own practice regularly. The model improves itself from within.

Larus Academia Course

Shared Leadership in Schools

The leadership pillar is delivered through a structured course for the school's leadership team and emerging leaders.

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Modules

Sequenced from diagnosis of the current model through to embedding new governance.

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Topics

From decision rights and meeting design to conflict, mandate and accountability.

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Self-assessment tools

Instruments leaders reuse annually, long after the engagement ends.

Curriculum

The five modules

Instructor-led content, self-study and reflective assignments. Participants build a complete leadership model for their own institution, step by step.

01

Principles and Benefits of Shared Leadership

  • What shared leadership means in an educational institution
  • Core principles of shared leadership
  • Benefits for school operations, well-being and learning outcomes
  • Self-assessment: mapping the current state in your institution
02

Building a New Organizational Model

  • Stages and prerequisites of organizational change
  • Designing the leadership structure
  • Leadership and team structures
  • Workshop: draft of your institution's leadership model
03

Responsibility and Decentralised Decision-Making

  • Defining roles and responsibilities
  • Decision-making models and distribution of authority
  • Clarity and boundaries: creating a responsibility matrix
  • Self-study: distributing responsibilities in your own institution
04

Reinforcing the New Model

  • The role of culture in shared leadership
  • Trust and psychological safety
  • Encountering and managing resistance to change
  • Embedding the new model into daily practice
  • Reflection task: a plan for the school community
05

Communication, Collaboration and Implementation

  • Communication in the shared leadership model
  • Professional collaboration and dialogue
  • Creating an implementation plan
  • Monitoring, evaluation and continuous improvement
  • Course summary and completed leadership model

Intended for principals, deputy and vice principals, education directors, team leaders and others responsible for leading and developing an educational institution. The outcome is a leadership model tailored to your own school, with a concrete plan for implementing and establishing it.

Next Step

See how the pillars work together

Leadership development is one of three reinforcing pillars.

Pillar 02 — Teacher Training