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ESHA’s quality cards series HEADstart aims to help school heads with useful professional tips on how to develop and become better leaders of their teams.

This Headstart The School Leader’s Own Development provides suggestions for the following practical questions:

  • How do I ensure that I keep on learning?
  • How do I set a good example as a learning school leader

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How to use this Best Practice

The headstart addresses the questions of why it is important to work on your own development, what is needed for working on your own development and 3 steps to be taken to develop build this into practice:

Step 1: Organize reflection time, together with colleagues

Step 2: Determine your learning needs (what do you want to learn?)

Step 3: Organize your own learning activities

Learning Outcomes

Leadership LO F: Through communities of practice, build capacity as Sustainability Citizenship educators and leaders.