Category: Leader

Launch of Leadership Academy (Phase 1)

Leadership Pathway poster

Applications are now open for our first Senior Leadership Pathway cohort!

Please share this information with members of staff in your school who you see as our future Head Teachers!!

This pathway will provide aspiring HTs with the skills and opportunities they will need to be in a position to apply for senior leadership roles in the future.

Tap a talent on the shoulder and give them an opportunity to begin climbing the leadership ladder.

Information session will be held online on Monday 17th November at 4pm.

Contact clpl@scotborders.gov.uk for more information.

Application forms can be requested from CLPL team or from your Headteacher.

Apple Learning Coach

As an ALC, teacher leaders will:

  • Act as a coach and mentor to educators using the iPad and other digital tools
  • Support staff to develop their teaching practices using digital technologies.
  • Develop and lead professional learning within your school or cluster.

 To become an ALC, candidates must complete the certified ALC programme:

  • Self-paced online modules (Units 1–6) and reflective portfolio
  • Two days of virtual workshops led by Apple Professional Learning Specialists
  • Final Coaching Portfolio, including a Coaching Action Plan tailored to your setting.
  • Total CLPL is up to 43.5 hours.

To be considered for the ALC programme, candidates must:

  • Have Apple Teacher recognition
  • Be willing to coach at least one educator in a primary, secondary, or local authority setting
  • Have HT / leadership approval

To find out more or apply: coaching

  1. Attend a virtual info session (optional but recommended)
  2. Gain approval from HT / leadership
  3. Apply online > Apply to Apple Learning Coach – Apple Education Community

 

Leadership Programmes 2025-6

Leadership Programmes 2025-26

Applications for the 25/26 Leadership Programmes are now open.

Further information on each of the programmes can be found on Business World – contact clpl@scotborders.gov.uk for an application form.

The Aspiring to Middle Leadership and Middle Leaders Leading Change are Education Scotland online programmes. We will work through these as an SBC cohort with a face to face induction and touchpoint sessions.

Fully funded places available on Open University Microcredentials

The OU in Scotland is currently offering some fully funded places on our Microcredential courses starting in June/July 2024. These courses run from 10 – 12 weeks and are designed for people looking to gain new skills to help advance their careers. The courses are delivered online via distance learning which allows you to fit in time for learning alongside work and life commitments. They can give you and your staff practical skills that can be immediately utilised in the workplace. Offered at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels, the courses will also give you the chance to learn alongside people in a wide range of sectors and roles and share knowledge and experience.

The courses on offer are:

  • Agile Leadership and Management
  • Business Management: Marketing Principles and Practice
  • Business Management: Improving Organisational Practice
  • Business Management: People Management and Leadership
  • Business Management: Project Management
  • Business Management: Fundamentals of Management Accounting
  • Business Management: Financial Accounting for Non-Financial Roles
  • Climate Change: Transforming Your Organisation for Sustainability
  • Cyber Security Operations
  • Mental Health: Working with Children and Young People
  • Mentoring and Coaching in Professional Learning
  • Python Programming
  • Teacher Development: Embedding Mental Health in the Curriculum

More information about the courses and the application form can be found at https://www.open.ac.uk/courses/choose/scotland-micro. The deadline for applications is 19th May 2024.