Online seminars

Our online seminars offer you a continuing professional development opportunity to view presentations, ask questions and interact with guest speakers. Simply follow the links below to register for forthcoming or replay previous seminars. All seminars are free to join.

If you have any access problems, call the NCSL help desk on 0845 609 0009 or email [email protected].

Forthcoming seminars

Register for Leading Practice: Outstanding leadership – inside and outside education
4.30pm, Monday 23 March
This seminar will explore the characteristics and personal journeys of outstanding leaders. Drawing on the findings from two key NCSL research projects, it offers a unique opportunity to learn about creating and sustaining leadership success in education and beyond.

Register for Harnessing technology: Data-driven school transformation
4.30pm, Tuesday 24 March
The final online seminar in our Harnessing technology series. David Moran of the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust will show us some sites and online tools to demonstrate how data can be used to drive improvement in school.

Previous seminars

Harnessing technology: How technology is transforming home-school relationships
March 2009
Niel McLean, Executive Director – Institutional Workforce and Development at Becta talks about how technology is transforming home-school relationships. This is the third online seminar in the Harnessing Technology series.

Replay Harnessing technology: Next generation learning
March 2009
With John Taylor, Head of Institutional Improvement at Becta. John will draw on different models to help illustrate the processes for the transformation that is needed in schools to bring about next generation learning. This is the second online seminar in the Harnessing Technology series.

Replay Headship: Applying? Recruiting?
March 2009
Get personal support from expert Peter Addison-Child. This is a chance to share your experience of the headship recruitment market and explore ideas for maximising personal effectiveness either as an applicant or recruiter. Peter is also currently hosting an online discussion on this topic.

Replay Harnessing technology
March 2009
Join Vanessa Pittard, Director of E-Strategy at Becta, as she outlines the main ideas in the Harnessing Technology National Strategy for education and skills, which was published in July 2008.

Replay Leading Practice: Remodelling leadership for 21st century schools
February 2009
With General Secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders John Dunford and Innovation Unit Director for Practitioner Development Deryn Harvey. This seminar offers school leaders, governors and local authorities an opportunity to learn about, discuss and develop best practice in implementing alternative models of leadership. It will explore the results of collaborative work across local authorities that addresses barriers to implementing emerging models, discuss a new thinkpiece about models of leadership commissioned by NCSL, and review a new leadership toolkit developed by NCSL and the Innovation Unit.

Replay Models of Leadership to support 21st century schools: team leadership
February 2009
Anne McCormick, headteacher of Queens Park Lower School in Bedford, talks about her experience of team leadership, having been involved in the leadership and governance arrangements for a 0-19 full-service, inclusive, extended school, which embraces more than just school provision.

Replay National Standards for School Leadership
February 2009
NCSL and the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) are formally consulting on the proposed National Standards for School Leadership, which have been developed in consultation with the Social Partnership. We are interested in receiving feedback from school leaders and aspiring leaders, governors, local and diocesan authority personnel and others working with school leaders on the proposed standards. With Jane Doughty, NCSL Operational Director Programme Management. Find out more about the National Standards for School Leadership consultation.

Replay Leading Practice: Leadership for personalising learning
February 2009
With Professor Viviane Robinson (New Zealand) and Ellen Goldring (USA). What does effective leadership of learning and teaching look like? What are we learning about this internationally and in the UK? How can we make our UK approach even better? This is a unique opportunity to expand and develop your thinking and practice of leading teaching and learning within the context of personalised learning. You will hear about international perspectives and leading-edge UK practice from current outstanding leaders.

Replay Models of leadership to support 21st century schools: The Devon First Federation – hard federations in primary schools
February 2009
Of the 28 or so hard federations that currently exist nationally, 5 are in Devon. The Devon First Federation comprises Blackpool and Chudleigh Knighton Primary Schools. Executive Headteacher Paul Lloyd Jones and his colleagues share their journey.

Replay Models of leadership to support 21st century schools: the experience of executive headship
February 2009
With Executive Headteacher of the Central Leeds Learning Federation Liz Talmadge. This was the first seminar in a series for school leaders, children’s centre leaders, governors and local authorities. Liz talks about her experience of executive headship and you will have the opportunity to learn about different models of leadership.

Replay BETT 2009 seminars
January 2009
View and listen to the recordings of our online seminars from BETT 2009. There are 10 recording to choose from, each lasting around 15 minutes.

Earlier seminars

You can view older seminars on the Online seminars archive page.