School heads to get leadership training

In addition to this, a special programme on leadership and school management would be organised by National Centre for School Leadership – National University of Educational Planning and Administration (NCSL-NUEPA), in collaboration with Mother Theresa Women’s University. 

A senior official from the state School Education Department said that authorities would conduct a survey in the state to select the schools. According to him, the priority for the NCSL was to prepare school leaders for school transformation.

“This would involve continuous engagement of administrators and practitioners to transform schools through collaborative effort involving all stakeholders. NCSL aspires to comprehensively address this very significant area in school education,” he said. 

According to the official, the training programme enable school leaders to bring about a shift in their understanding of their current role as functional managers to proactive and innovative leaders.

The training would prepare a critical mass of experts to take leadership development forward in the respective and would build capacities of school heads in areas such as teaching learning, personal and professional development, innovations in school system processes, and partnerships.

The programme would operate through multiple short-term and long-term modular courses based on target-specific and issue-specific 

requirements. 

It intends to build the capacity of school leaders to lead school improvement processes on an ongoing basis, and to build the capacity of State and district-level faculty to design and deliver need-based programmes for leadership development that helps individuals to proactively engage in new ways of thinking.

The training would also establish linkages between school leaders and grass root level (field) administrators working closely with schools at cluster, block and district levels as other community members.