Leading governors: regional training workshops

The College presented a series of nine regional training workshops throughout February and March 2012 to support our chairs of governors leadership development offer.

These free workshops were developed to provide delegates with:

personal professional development in regards to the importance of school governance in the current and future educational landscapesan
overview of the National College's new leadership development training offer for chairs of governors
an opportunity to trial and challenge this new training offer

They were also open to headteachers, co-ordinators of governor services, local authorities and diocese leaders.

What did the workshops include?

'Governance is the process of decision-making and the process by which decisions are implemented (or not implemented)': a session on what good governance looks like in schools and academies.
‘Governance in the future educational landscape’: an interactive session with guest speaker Robert Hill, national government policy advisor and international educational speaker and author of Chain reactions: a thinkpiece on the development of chains of schools in the English school system.
'How could your school benefit from working with a chair from another school? How could you contribute to the improvement of another school?': a session on the role and contribution of the national leaders of governance.
'How can the College support you in your role?': a session on our leadership development training offer for chairs.

A video of the final workshop, held at the College’s Learning and Conference Centre in Nottingham, will be available shortly.