The Future School Leadership Programme (FSLP)
PROBLEM
School leaders are rarely provided relevant training and sustained support to deliver on their roles as managers of school stakeholders and leaders of school development. The focus shifts disproportionately to administrative issues and diminishes their influence in the pivotal role they play in bettering learning outcomes. School Leaders thus struggle to effectively manage under-resourced schools and address poor performance.
SOLUTION
The Future School Leadership Programme is a professional development programme for School Leaders that strengthens their leadership and management capacities, enabling them to improve the management, governance and standards of their schools.
DESIGN
An 80-100 hours intervention spread across a year for Head Teachers (HTs)/ School Principals. The programme leverages a multi-modal approach to build school leaders' Strategic, Managerial and Academic leadership capacities, while also focusing on building their aspirations.
OUTCOMES
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Improvement in Strategic, Managerial and Academic leadership
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Professional development of school leaders as technical and administrative leaders
03
Improvement in school planning and school stakeholder management
04
Improvement in schools standards basis global equity standards
IMPACT
41%
HTs improved their knowledge as a result of participation in the school leadership training with Students possessing class appropriate competencies from FSLP schools was higher than the state average (in Utkarsh assessments 2021-2022)
REACH
5,017
HTs across three states (Odisha, Chhattisgarh and West Bengal)
