The Big 8 is a powerful toolkit which enables education leaders to create a relational and highly focused work culture, with clarity around expectations, and space for new thinking.
Learning this toolkit gives you the opportunity to develop your skills in:
Deep exploration of your personal sense of mission and purpose is fundamental for any leader seeking to enable their vision to be realised. This module requires you to think deeply about what education, school and learning is for, drawing on some of the different traditions of educational philosophy. You’ll reflect on your own educational philosophy and how it shapes your actions as a leader, and engage in rich discussions to deepen and develop your current thinking.
Leaders are also introduced to the Big Education 360 Evaluation Tool, a feedback tool designed around the Head. Heart, Hand learning objectives and intentions that underpin the programme. Leaders share this tool with colleagues and are supported to reflect on the feedback they receive.
This module will enable you to design new solutions to some of the biggest challenges you face and create the right conditions and culture to enable this work to happen. You’ll develop a ‘designer mindset,’ learning and practising the Design Thinking process and gaining an understanding of how to effectively facilitate this process in your own context.
This module offers an opportunity to connect with your own story, and to access a toolkit for effective change leadership. You will think deeply about theories for change management in an education context and develop practical changemaker skills, including methodologies and strategies used in Community Organising.
Developing your reflective capability is a key aim of the programme as a significant contributor to transformational leadership in your own context. This experience gives you the time and space to develop a richer understanding of their own unique potential and contribution, whilst also learning to pay attention to those habits that may hinder or hold you back.
Who the programme is for: Headteachers and senior leaders working in schools and other types of education organisations
Practicalities: One year programme, with eight in-person full day workshops.
Start date: Oct 2025
Location: London
Cost:£999
