Leaders of Learning, Glasgow City Council

Glasgow’s Leaders of Learning was imagineered through a strong strategic vision from Glasgow City Council to provide the very best learning opportunities to positively impact on the lives of all young people across Glasgow. The Scottish Attainment Challenge funding allowed primary school practitioners to be released as ‘Challenge Leaders of Learning’ to take forward targeted interventions and in turn build capacity within their own establishments.

The development of a range of sustainable programmes of learning form part of the work that Glasgow’s Leaders of Learning lead across the city in schools and this strategic focus has significantly shifted teaching practice and has helped to build professional capital. There was a strong sense that teachers felt empowered and part of a culture which establishes the teacher-as-learner through sharing research and high quality learning and teaching and resources. This in turn has that encouraged teachers to contextualise the learning for their own settings and the needs of their learners. During the course of the one day visit the GTCS panel witnessed the strong developing leadership culture as a result of the quality of leadership of and for learning fostered by the Glasgow’s Leaders of Learning, and described this as “true collaborative professionalism in action”.