NCSL offers school leaders a wide range of opportunities for professional development online. Through online discussions and seminars, you can hear from key educational thinkers, create your own debates and take part in policy consultations.
Our online communities are located within talk2learn, which is one component of NCSL’s online Learning Gateway. They allow you to connect with peers from across the education sector, and are a great place to engage in professional dialogue, to stimulate debate and to learn from the wisdom of others. They are open to an increasingly wide range of school leaders – including headteachers, deputy heads, middle leaders and school business managers from schools, children’s centres and further education colleges. Within them, you have access to a confidential and extensive network of colleagues, experts and policy-makers with whom you can debate, discuss and share ideas. You can create your own debates and respond to others in the Open forum, and join online consultation hotseats with policy makers.
NCSL also offers a range of online seminars using WebEx web conferencing software. These take place at a fixed date and time and allow you to listen to a range of speakers on school leadership topics while viewing presentation slides. In addition, you can interact with the rest of the school leader audience as well as ask the presenter questions in real time. Find out about forthcoming and previous seminars.
In talk2learn, school leaders have the opportunity to collaborate as individuals or as networks.
The open forum provides any registered user with the opportunity to create their own forums on topics of their choice. These are answered by other school leaders within an informal network, which is open to everyone.
These groups are hosted on open pages. They are specific interest groups but available for anyone to read and contribute.
Links to these groups can be found in NCSL in Dialogue, on the first page after logging in to talk2learn. Some of the groups are closed.
These groups are by invitation only.
Links to these groups can be found in the drop-down menu in talk2learn. Admission is restricted.