Leading and Managing a 21st Century School System
This Executive Workshop focuses on Leading and Managing a 21st Century School System at a time when education is at the heart of Australia's human capital, productivity and innovation agenda.
Delivered over a two day program, the focus will be 'real time' policy work required to advance both the immediate and medium term challenge to meet the goals of the Melbourne Declaration for Young Australians. The goals commit us to:
- Promoting equity and excellence in Australian Schools,
- Supporting all young Australians to become: successful learners, confident and creative individuals and active informed citizens.
The course recognises that building an excellent education system to deliver these goals, requires an agenda that encompasses both improvement efforts and incremental change and more radical innovation and transformation. In this spirit rather than drawing on 'case studies' the Executive Workshop will be informed by three recent publications from the Cisco's Global Education Team, harnessing international contributions from across the public, corporate and not for profit sectors.
Who should attend?
The course is designed for senior policy makers and senior operational leaders in education systems. Typically these would be senior managers with significant responsibilities for policy, finance and operations around schools.
Course Leaders
Tony Mackay
Tony Mackay is Executive Director of The Centre for Strategic Education. Tony specialises in the area of educational leadership, improvement and innovation.
Tony is Deputy Chair of the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority and is Chair of the recently announced Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership.Tony is an Honorary Fellow of the The University of Melbourne Graduate School of Education, a Board Director of the Australian Council for Educational Research, a member of the Advisory Board of the Asia Education Foundation and a Board Director of the Foundation for Young Australians.
Tony is President of the International Congress for School Effectiveness and Improvement (ICSEI). He is Chair of the innovation Unit Ltd; England and a facilitator/consultant advisor to OECD / CERI. Tony is currently co-leading a Global Education Leaders Program (GELP) and is a founding member of the Governing Council of the National College for School Leadership in England.
Tony’s facilitation work focuses on strategic thinking for Government bodies and agencies, think tanks and leadership teams around the world. Tony was the lead facilitator for the Productivity Agenda stream at the Australian’s Government’s 2020 Summit.
David Abury
David is Co-Chair of The Innovation Unit and an independent consultant and policy adviser specialising in strategies for organisational and system transformation in public services.
From 2002 to 2005 he was Principal Adviser in the UK Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit, where, amongst other responsibilities, he led a major review of education strategy and policy and co-authored the influential report on Innovation in the Public Sector. David chaired the 2004 review of the British National College of School Leadership.
David works and speaks nationally and internationally on creating the conditions for radical innovation in Governments, national agencies, localities and public service organisations. He has helped turn round failing and under-performing organisations in health, education and local government and assisted high performing organisations to break new ground and push the leading edge. David has advised local, national and international organisations across the full range of public services and has coached teams, top managers and professionals.
David is the design and development coordinator for the Global Education Leadership Program sponsored by Cisco and the Gates Foundation. David is also a Visiting Professor in Innovation Studies at King’s College London.
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