Middle Leaders Engagement Day – 20th March 2025

For all PTs and DHTs

To book: https://forms.office.com/e/3etwGMJYeS 

Hopefully you have had the opportunity to hear about Education Scotland’s new Leadership+ offer. Leadership+ is a series of one-off bespoke webinars which complement the work of Education Scotland’s leadership programmes.

Leadership+ is offered to anyone in a leadership role in Scottish education, across sectors (this includes classroom practitioners, ELC and CLD practitioners, middle leaders, and school, setting and system leaders). The aims are:

• to enhance leadership learning across pertinent themes
• to encourage critical thinking in leaders at all levels.

We have some amazing news for you! Dr Simon Breakspear has agreed to lead our second Leadership+ session! This is being held on Tuesday 10^th December, 9.15am – 10.30am. Please note the early start is due to international time zones as Simon is joining us from Australia!

In this session, Simon will outline the case for strategic subtraction. What if the answer to inducing positive change in our teams, organisations, and systems lies in doing less?

In this provocative presentation, you will:

• Unravel the misguided tendency to keep adding more
• Surface the power of subtracting, streamlining and simplifying
• Explore how to apply The Pruning Principle across roles and contexts
• Consider why pruning will require courage and creativity
• Apply simple strategies and practical tools

We anticipate high demand for this event, so would encourage you to sign up quickly. If a number of you in your establishment want to sign up, then why not watch together, learn together and take forward your post-event plans together? Please click here to register (you can also use the QR code, or register now link on the flier).

We have already sent out information on our first Leadership+ webinar will be led by Dr Karen Edge focusing on Leadership for capacity and wellbeing, and is being held on Wednesday 4^th December, 3.30pm – 4.45pm. We will be offering more Leadership+ sessions in the near future, and will be publishing a menu of sessions in the new year.

Neither of these sessions will be recorded, however our presenters will be recording bespoke 15 minute summaries which will be housed on the Leadership Resource page of our website Leadership in Education | Resource Themes | Education Scotland

Education Scotland, Professional Learning and Leadership team