Become a System Leader

What is School-to-Support & System Leadership

Warrington Teaching School Alliance (WTSA) is tasked to facilitate school-to-school support within Warrington and across the North West as part of a school-led system. School-to-school support involves working with a school or academy in challenging circumstances to bring about improvement through a network of specialists in education. This includes working together to create plans, deciding how best to use the services of system leaders in providing support to other schools. For example:

• Middle and senior leaders working as specialist leaders of education (SLE)

Brokered to provide short or long packages of support to other middle and senior leaders in specialist areas, for example 'Leadership of curriculum', ' or 'modern foreign languages' as needed by requesting schools.

• Head teachers working as local and national leaders of education (LLE's and NLE's)

Outstanding head teachers with strong evidence of pupil performance and progress in their own schools Involved in delivering educational excellence everywhere, driving standards upwards in addition to leading their own schools.

• Chairs of governors working as national leaders of governance

Experienced chairs of governors with track records of raising standards using coaching and mentoring to support other chairs of governing bodies to challenge and drive school improvement effectively.

Information on these can be found in this guide to system leader roles.