1. Inventing the Future
Nick Burnett
Director
i-for-k

2. The only way to predict the
future is to invent it – Alan
Kay

3. Inventing the Future

4. NCSL Research

5. Background
 Personal
 Professional

6. Key Themes
 Change
• Radical Shift in Challenges
• Understanding Change
• Coherence Making
• Leaders as Change Agents
 Partnerships
• Support
• Diversity
• Share
• Effectiveness
• Boundary Spanning
 ICT
• Responsive and Adaptable
• Reduction in barriers to learning
• Connected Learning Communities
• Outsourcing

7. Key Themes
 Innovation
• Leadership
• Curriculum
• Pedagogy
• Design
• Funding
• Professionalism
 Qualities
• Abandonment
• Resolve Conflict
• Vision and Passion
• Strength and Courage
• Effective relationships
• Ability to transform

8. If you don't like change, you're
going to like irrelevance even
less - General Eric Shinseki -
Chief of Staff, US Army

9. changing cultural context

10. partnership provision
 school as gateway to networked
provision
 schools as 'solutions assemblers' in a
personalised system
• extended schools

11. teachers as facilitators
 independent flexible learning
pathways
 co-production
• e-learning

12. advocacy
 work with students to facilitate
learning

13. funding
 entitlement to funding amount

14. Leadership

15. influence not control
 stakeholders beyond authority of
leaders
• CIA
 change
 influence
 accept

16. building and sustaining alliances
 risk management
 accountability

17. leaders as change agents
 tackling obstacles to change
 filtering role

18. school capacity

19. sustainability

20. change that
 promotes sustained learning
 lasts over time
• Succession planning
 be supported by achievable/available
resources
 doesn't impact negatively on the
surrounding environment
 builds future capacities

21. Fight the change or grab hold
and enjoy the ride - Tom
Peters

22. charismatic leadership is not
good for this
 Transformational Leadership

23. Nothing ever changes by staying
the same!

24. policy levers

25. leaders
 moral purpose
 understanding change
 coherence making
 relationship building
 knowledge creation and sharing

26. relational trust
 culture/climate
 respect
 competence
 personal regard for others
 integrity

27. There are three categories of
people; the ones that make
things happen; the ones that
watch things happen and the
ones that wonder what the
hell is happening – Barbara
Prashnig

28. moral imperative of school
leadership

29. make a difference
 1-individual
 2-school
 3-beyond school
 4-in society

30. BLAME NO ONE!
EXPECT NOTHING!
DO SOMETHING!
New York Jets locker room

31. Nick Burnett
 nick@i-for-k.com
 Mobile Number: 0405411871
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