Carl is Chief Executive of the City Learning Trust, a 3 to 19 MAT in Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire.

He has worked as a senior leader over the last 17 years and has been a teacher for 25 years, working in a range of schools and organisations across a number of settings.  He was ASCL President in 2017-2018 and between 2009 and 2011, he was part of the Prime Minister’s Talent & Enterprise Taskforce and has advised the Number 10 policy unit on a number of aspects of Education. He is Chair of the Careers and Enterprise Companies Education Advisory Board and is a council member for both the International Confederation of Principals and the European School Headteachers Association.

Carl has been Chair of the Schools Cooperative Society, a member of the Education Funding Agency Advisory Board and the DfE Schools and Academy’s Funding Group (SAFG). He also chaired the College of Teaching Trustees selection committee and was a member of the DfE’s PHSE implementation group.  Carl has regional, national and international experience in leadership development and school to school improvement, and has supported national and international projects and conferences for a range of organisations.

In 2009, he was awarded the DfE Sinnott Fellowship for outstanding work to create outward facing schools. In 2010 his school received the Business in the Community National Education Award for Community Excellence and in 2015 his school received two national awards from the DfE for outstanding performance.

 

This session would examine the traditional role of the school leader in a range of international settings.  It would look at the historical context of school leadership against the backdrop of societal change and the demands that such brings to the role of school leaders across the world in the 21st Century.

The presentation would look to examine the key elements of what makes ‘great’ school leaders.  It would look to place into context how school systems across the world are responding to social and economic change and examine the key area of technological change (artificial intelligence) that holds the opportunity to fundamentally change the way teaching, learning and hence the leadership of such is delivered by the next generation of school leaders.

The session would examine the who what how and why the leaders of the future will need to understand if they are to have the capacity and capability to take advantage on behalf of their community of learners of the opportunities that will be presented.  It will look to offer a framework so that delegates can make sense of the changing leadership landscape around them and look to do so in an ethical manner.

To collaborate from teachers from around the world to understand how they are striving to provide the best education for students so that i may continue to learn more and improve my own practice.