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Senior leaders carry the weight of the whole school. Deputy and assistant heads, and those preparing for the role, need more than great teaching behind them; they need strategic leadership skills. This programme develops your senior leaders and aspiring leaders to lead improvement, manage people, and drive standards.
Below, we explain what our senior leadership programme involves, and how it helps you build strong leadership at the top of your school.
What Is Senior Leadership Development Programme?
It’s practical leadership development for senior leaders and those aspiring to senior roles. We cover strategic leadership, leading whole-school improvement, managing and developing people, using data at scale, and the demands of senior leadership, from difficult decisions to leading through change.
We focus on the real challenges senior leaders face and give them frameworks and tools they can use, tailored to your school or trust and its priorities.
Who Is This Training For?
It’s designed for all education settings: maintained schools, academies, and multi-academy trusts, Alternative Provisions, and SEND Units/Hubs. It suits deputy and assistant heads, senior leaders, and aspiring SLT members. Trusts often run it across schools to grow senior leadership capacity.
Many schools ask for it to develop their SLT, prepare middle leaders for senior roles, or build a pipeline of future headteachers.
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What Does the Training Cover?
We shape the content around your priorities. You can book a whole-school INSET, a group session, or focused one-to-one support. Our most common areas include:
- Strategic leadership and vision
- Leading whole-school improvement
- Managing, developing, and leading people
- Using data to drive school-wide change
- Leading through change and challenge
- Making difficult decisions well
- Quality assurance across the school
- Preparing for headship
How This Training Helps Your School, Academy, Trust, or Alternative Provision
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Develop strong senior leaders
We give your SLT the strategic skills the role demands, beyond what teaching taught them.
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Lead improvement effectively
Senior leaders learn to plan and drive whole-school improvement that actually lands.
3
Manage people well
Leaders develop the skills to manage, motivate, and develop the staff they lead.
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Grow your leadership pipeline
You prepare middle leaders for senior roles and build future headteachers from within.
5
Support new senior leaders
First-time deputies and assistant heads get the structure and confidence to succeed.
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Lead through change
Leaders learn to steer their school through change and challenge with clarity.
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Strengthen the whole trust
A shared programme grows consistent, capable senior leaders across all your schools.
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How the Training Works
- 1We talk with you to understand your context, your staff, and what you want to change.
- 2We tailor the content to your setting, your phase, and your improvement priorities.
- 3We use real leadership challenges from your setting, so the learning is grounded and immediately useful.
- 4We deliver the training in person or online, in a way that fits your calendar.
- 5We give you practical resources and tools your staff can use straight away.
- 6We follow up to help you embed the learning, so it sticks and changes classroom practice.
What Your Staff Get
Every participant comes away with more than notes. They get:
- Clear, practical strategies they can use in the next lesson
- A shared language and consistent approach across the team
- Ready-to-use resources, tools, and templates
- The confidence to put the training into practice
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Key Features of Our Training
Strategic and practical
We focus on the real demands of senior leadership, with tools leaders can use now.
Tailored to your context
We shape the programme around your school or trust and its priorities.
Whole-team, group, or individual
Train an SLT, a cross-trust cohort, or one-to-one coaching. We adapt to you.
Why Choose Jarvis Education?
We work only with education settings. We know the weight senior leaders carry, and what helps them lead well. Our programme helps you build strong leadership, with every decision staying focused on children.
Want to know how this training could work for your school? Just get in touch.
Next Steps & How to Get Started
- Speak to one of our experts. We’ll explain how we work, answer your questions, and help you shape the right training for your staff.
- We agree dates and delivery that suit your calendar, in person or online, and confirm everything in writing.
- Contact us today to discuss how we can support your school, academy, trust, and alternative provision.
- We’re ready to help and support you.
Who We Work With
We support settings of every type across England and internationally.
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