Consultants For School Leadership Development

We have a range of exceptionally skilled school improvement advisers who are experienced at working alongside school leaders to support their professional development and to help them to maximize the impact of their roles. We can support aspiring or newly appointed leaders, as well as those who are established in their roles but require an external eye to enhance their practice. We have the best consultants for school leadership development. Our services are flexible to suit your needs, examples of what we provide include:

For principals

Whether you are new to headship, or an experienced head facing the challenges of a new setting, we can provide an experienced colleague who will:

• Act as a sounding board
• Act as a coach
• Provide practical advice and guidance on a range of issues including staffing, finance, governance, community, behavior and safeguarding
• Offer solutions based on their own experience of how to tackle complex situations

For senior leaders

Support with:

• Creating an evolving type of leader that contributes to overall school development and caters to the needs of the contemporary learner and employee
• The development of a methodical quality assurance system that maintains and improves efficiency, equity and growth
• Using outcomes of monitoring to write an accurate self-evaluation
• Using outcomes of quality assurance to develop clear action plans with measurable success criteria in all subjects and aspects
• Developing line managers who are skilled at holding colleagues to account through asking probing questions and evaluating evidence in constructive and challenging line management meetings
• Developing a curriculum that meets the needs of pupils in the school and the community and evaluating the impact at both whole school and departmental level
• Using data, both external and internal, to drive improvement
• Effective leadership of a whole school aspect: working collaboratively to create a shared vision; supporting staff to deliver goals; effective delegation; building capacity
• Using the outcomes of quality assurance to identify and meet the bespoke professional development needs of staff, including pedagogy and subject knowledge. We have the best consultants for school leadership development

FOR MIDDLE LEADERS:

Support with:

• The development of a robust quality assurance system: the creation of monitoring and evaluation systems that work
• Using outcomes of quality assurance to develop clear action plans with measurable success criteria
• Developing and articulating a well-balanced and challenging subject curriculum, based on a deep understanding of what pupils need to know and are able to do
• Evaluating the impact of a subject curriculum through a deep dive: checking through lesson visits and through work scrutiny that all teachers are delivering the curriculum in a consistent and coherent way which is having definite impact on enhancing pupils’ understanding of the subject
• Using data, both external and internal, to drive improvement
• Effective leadership of a whole school aspect: working collaboratively to create a shared vision for the subject/area; supporting staff to deliver agreed departmental goals and schemes of learning; effective delegation; building capacity
• Using the outcomes of quality assurance to identify the bespoke professional development needs of staff, including pedagogy and subject knowledge
• Presenting the strengths, areas for development, issues, actions and impact in a way that will convince an accountability body
• Holding staff to account for the work in their area through constructive line management meetings

FOR GOVERNORS:

Support with:

• Creating a full functioning governing body and equipping members with the tools to operate collaboratively
• Understanding their statutory roles and how to be effective in fulfilling them
• Support for undertaking governor skills audits, self-evaluation and identification of development needs
• Various Inspection framework – understanding the evaluation schedule so that it can be used as a tool to support and challenge leaders
• How to interpret and analyze external data

HEADTEACHER PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT:

IMA consultants can provide external advice for governors in line with statutory guidelines. Our proficient consultants work alongside leaders and help them to work with full potential. Feel free to contact us if you are looking for consultants for school leadership development.