Collaborative learning is an amazingly powerful tool that the best schools are using for their students but maybe we have overlooked its power for school leaders. During the Covid pandemic senior leaders produced remarkably creative solutions to unprecedented problems. Unfortunately, many working in isolated and re-inventing the wheel over and over again. Now is time for ingenious problem solving and getting the benefits of more than one brain working on an issue as head teachers fight to improve outcomes in their schools. Collaborative experiences result in an idea being discussed by one person, firing further inspirations in another, which in turn stimulates concepts which would never have happened otherwise.
Going ‘beyond your school’ to local, regional, national and international arenas provides a rich seam of school leaders with inventive, creative, successful, rarely thought of solutions to commonly experienced problems in the education sector.
But how do we do this?
This article explains ways of expanding your outlook to learn from local, through regional, national to the international knowhow of ‘Global experts’. With the rise of use of social media and the skills we all developed and improved during the pandemic it has never been easier.
Questions you may ask are:
- How do I know what is good practice in my town? region?
- How do you know what great solutions other heads have found for the problems I am dealing with?
- How do I avoid wasting copious amounts of time on the internet?