This module introduces the idea of the Framework for ethical leadership governance in education and provides a practical ‘audit-style’ tool for you to undertake with your board and school/trust leaders.

By the end of the audit tool you will:

• Be able to identify how your school or trust embeds the ethical leadership principles in practice
• Identify which principles need further development and establish ways of measuring the success of this development over time
• Be able to use reflective practice and develop examples as a leadership team as evidence of ethical leadership

This module will help you to:

• Ensure your board is operating effectively
• Identify when your strategy isn’t making an impact
• Assess performance of all members
• Plan for development

The purpose of this module is to:

• Give you an insight into the inspection experience and what Ofsted requires of the school and the governing board 
• Give you a greater awareness of the evidence on which inspectors base their judgements 
• Make you aware of the implications of these judgements for schools and governing boards 
• Give you a better understanding of the criteria by which the governing board with be judged 
• Help you to be better enabled to ask appropriate questions of the headteacher and senior staff, as part of holding them to account 

This module will help you to:

• Build relationships with your senior executive team
• Engage effectively with stakeholders including parents, staff, the community and employers

This module will help you to:

• Know what kind of problems may arise in a governing board
• Understand the role of different people on the governing board in trying to resolve difficulties and disputes
• Understand what contribution you can make in supporting the governing board in tackling these problems

This module will help you to:

• Understand the inspection process
• Understand what Ofsted requires of the school and governing board
• Understand the evidence on which inspectors base their judgements
• Understand the implications for schools and governing boards
• Understand the criteria by which your board will be judged
• Be better enabled to ask appropriate questions of the headteacher and senior staff, as part of holding them to account.

This module will help you to:

• Enable you and your board to make the best use of visits to school
• Ensure that visits are well planned, focussed on school or trust priorities and make a positive difference
• Provide you with useful downloadable resources such as an editable visits policy and a template to help you record your visits

This module will help you to:

• Understand the importance and principles of succession planning
• Review the characteristics of good chairing
• Reflect on barriers that might hinder succession planning
• Develop a suitable structure for succession with their own board
• Become equipped with takeaway tools, strategies and knowledge to plan for the future of their board.

This module will help you to:

• Assess how well you currently undertake monitoring as part of your governance role, and identify what you can do to make it even better
• Take you through 10 lead questions related to effective monitoring
• Generate a suggested action plan template for you to download and keep, as well as providing you with a handy checklist

This module will help you to:

• Understand the role of the governing board in effective challenge
• Explore the types of questions governing boards should ask
• Understand when a courageous conversation is needed

This module will help you to:

• Understand when a courageous conversation is needed
• Explore what planning is needed prior to undertaking a courageous conversation
• Understand how to deal with defensiveness and denial
• Asses what to do after a courageous conversation has taken place