In an effort to measure education sector performance, the Department of Basic Education (DBE) commissioned the School Monitoring Survey (SMS) 2011/12, the second SMS in 2017 (DBE, 2017) and the third SMS in 2021 (DBE, 2021). The aim of the … Read More
Strengthening the educational system through data driven resilience: SEED’s partner perspective
Strategic partnerships can help address societal challenges and drive transformative impact. The Data-Driven Districts (DDD) programme is one partnership that has empowered South Africa’s education sector to improve learner outcomes by equipping leaders with actionable insights through its proven, scalable … Read More
SEED’s social enterprise partnership: empowering Curro’s leadership teams since 2024
SEED Trust has been actively involved in the extremely successful CURRO Schools Leadership Development Programme, since 2024. “We’ve been very happy to have SEED in our corner. They’ve been incredibly accommodating and are fully committed to the success of the … Read More
New research: Transforming education leadership — exploring the critical role of middle tier professionals
New research highlighting the importance of strengthening middle tier leadership (SEED Trust’s primary target market) in improving education quality and learning outcomes in South Africa, published by maitri trust. READ THE FULL ARTICLE HERE
SLP35 Graduation
26 principals graduated from the School Leadership Development Programme that was held at Zovuyo Lodge just outside Butterworth on 29 July 2024. Representatives from Old Mutual and the ECDOE offered their congratulations to the graduates and the graduates themselves spoke … Read More
SLP34 Graduation
The graduation for 19 school principals who completed the School Leadership Development Programme was held at Tzaneen Country Lodge on 15 August 2024. 14 of the 19 principals obtained Distinctions and the average for the class was 78%. This is one … Read More
Launch of the School Leadership Development Facilitation (SLDF) Programme in the Eastern Cape
Recent studies have shown that 50% of educators will retire by 2030. Many of them will be school leaders and district officials. This will place the system under severe strain, but it also represents an opportunity to train up a … Read More
Succession Planning for Founder-led organisations
By David Newby (Copyright 2020) Background to founder-led organisations Leadership succession for founders is always challenging. Much has been written on “founder syndrome” but it is often evidenced in the ability of the founders to meet critical needs, overcome major … Read More
Strategy development using Sinek’s Golden Circle
By David Newby (Copyright 2020) There is clearly a need in organisations to establish a broad strategic framework that everyone identifies with and which can guide strategic decision making going forward. In his book “Start with Why” (2009) Simon Sinek … Read More
Leading teams
By David Newby (Copyright 2020) The Team Performance Model is a simple tool to help you understand how you are doing in your school or organisation. As a leader you will be required to manage four elements of team performance … Read More
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