The core focus of the Lead Like a Champion Programme is around instructional leadership – leadership that promotes quality teaching and learning.

The core focus of the Lead Like a Champion Programme is around instructional leadership – leadership that promotes quality teaching and learning.

The Edufundi Lead Like A Champion programme supports and develops strong, effective and functional SMTs who lead their schools to support teaching for learning and it is SACE accredited. Our focus of building a strong SMT/school partnership is centred around the following objectives:

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Objective 1

 
To create a school environment that enable effective teaching and learning.

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Objective 2

 
To embed good practices throughout the school that create a culture of routines, high expectations, beliefs and values.

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Objective 3

 
To cultivate a culture of reflection, accountability and teamwork among the SMT, which allows it to reflect critically on leadership practices in order to make positive, sustainable changes.

“Reflective practices made me think critically about myself, our school, my team and the community elements and how we can provide effective teaching and learning.”

We work with each school for a period of three years. The Lead Like a Champion component has 4 key areas in which we work with SMTS these are:

Leadership Workshops:

Over a period of three years, 6 LLAC workshops are facilitated. These are held on Saturdays, where school leaders meet other leaders.

The topics that we focus on are:

  • YEAR 1 - Instructional leadership + Trust and teamwork
  • YEAR 2 - Planning for success + Curriculum management
  • YEAR 3 - Performance management + Leaderships and culture

Leadership Support Coaches

A Leadership Support coach visits the schools fortnightly for one-on-one coaching sessions, to support with embedding the practices learnt in the workshops, in our daily leadership activities and contextualizing the content.

Peer support groups

In year one we also introduce the schools to process called the Peer Support Group, which is a process of effective and productive reflection. Here, we train the school leaders on how to reflect as a team and how they can strengthen and improve their practices from one school term to another. We train the teams how to create safe, non-judgemental and constructive spaces that all educators can use to learn from one another and develop in their different roles.

The mentoring approach

As Edufundi, we believe that experiencing mentoring firsthand is important, we introduce the SMTs to the mentoring approach, equipping them to support their teachers. They go through the TLAC component to fully understand both the techniques and mentoring. This equips them to implement the programme in its entirety in the whole school and continue the support to all the educators.

The schools we worked with have proved that they have learnt the truth in the statement that says, “If you always do what you’ve always done, you will always get what you always got.” The Edufundi Support Programme supports schools to experience new and/or improved ways of doing and of being.