1. The document outlines objectives for a subject leader conference, including understanding effective subject leadership, evaluating leadership styles, and developing a shared vision for teaching. 2. It discusses qualities of effective subject leaders such as being learners themselves, focusing on collaboration, and leading improvement through setting direction, developing teachers, and redesigning the organization. 3. Different leadership styles like authoritarian, democratic, and laissez-faire are presented, along with practices like setting direction, managing teaching, developing people, and organizational redesign.

1. KE VI Camp Hill School for Boys Subject Leader Conference Tuesday 2 nd June 2009 King Edward’s Consortium ‘ Most importantly, a learning organisation has to be led by leaders who are learners.’ West-Burnham, 2002

7. Leading and Managing – what’s the difference? 1. Each write down 10 things subject leaders do – now in pairs sort into leadership and management. 2. Can you define what is leading and management? 3. Discuss

10. ‘ School leadership is essentially concerned with learning and teaching. Obvious as this statement appears, what happens in schools does not always follow this logic. All too easily other pressing issues take over […]. The urgent takes priority over the really important.’ NCSL Development Tools – Learning Centred Leadership

12. What are the qualities you would look for in an effective subject leader? If you were to write an advert for you own job, what adjectives would you choose?

27. ‘ The only time my education was interrupted was while I was at school.’ Winston Churchill ‘The course was amazing. I read War and Peace in an hour. It’s about Russia.’ Woody Allen, enthusing about a speed-reading course.