It's time to shape your school's journey in culture and the arts...
Leading the Arts in Your School is a modular arts leadership programme for teachers who wish to develop their school’s arts and cultural offer.
It has been designed for early to mid-career teaching staff - in any education setting or phase - with ambition and drive to use the arts and culture to make a significant improvement across their whole school. We're looking for educators who want to cultivate culture, creativity and curiosity in their students, contributing to personal growth and learning.
Who is this training for?
The course is a particularly useful development opportunity for schools that are considering or undertaking the Artsmark Award, or for a recently appointed Artsmark Lead. It will also resonate with schools that are running or interested in offering Arts Award. Leading the Arts supports and builds on the ethos and values of both of these programmes.
We welcome early to mid-career teaching professionals across all educational settings, whether Nursery, Primary or Secondary, including SEND & PRU. No prior experience being a school arts lead is necessary.
We’ll be announcing details soon about how to apply for our 2024/2025 cohort. Sign up below to be the first to receive updates when they go live.
This course will cover...
Arts Planning and Policy
- Explore what a quality arts action plan should include. You will have the opportunity to develop your own plan during the course.
- Examine cultural education & arts policy - looking at its impact at local and national levels.
- Explore approaches to measuring impact and see how they can contribute to effective advocacy for the arts across your school community.
- Explore how to present evidence and how to report to a range of stakeholders.
Leadership and Partnerships
- Investigate leadership and management styles and understand arts leadership in its wider context.
- Interrogate the concept and benefits of partnership working and meet arts and cultural organisations.
- Explore effective communication and advocating as an arts leader.
Professional Development and Reflection
- Undertake work shadowing with another setting.
- Undertake facilitated sessions on equality & inclusion, children & young people’s voice, and careers, employability & skills.
- Have the opportunity to reflect on the course, what you have learnt, and how you will embed this learning within your school improvement plans and provision.
“It's allowed me to approach SLT with a completely different mindset, and ... the empowerment and knowledge to go and really focus on arts within our school.”
“I know my role ... I am now confident to make an impact and a difference.”
What's the committment and how do I apply?
This course is delivered through a combination of in-person and online learning – a blended model specifically designed to increase accessibility and offer flexibility for busy teachers
Each September we open the course to applications, for delivery across the remainder of the academic year. Successful applicants are inducted in January and will study until July.
There are three face-to-face workshops and four live Zoom sessions to attend, plus additional learning and tasks to be completed in your own time, using our online learning platform.
Thinking about applying for Leading the Arts 2024/25 ?
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