ECIS ADVISORY, WITH ENRUSK
FOR THOSE WHO DESIRE TO CREATE IMPACT
There has never been a greater need for experts to help guide our school communities to successful futures for all stakeholders within the community. The global pandemic has challenged us all to re-examine even the most basic aspects of delivering quality education to our students and presented unprecedented challenges across our entire world. So, we have teamed up with EnRusk—a group of highly experienced experts who live to create, connect, and innovate—to provide a valuable Advisory Service.
A Partnership with Purpose: Introducing Dr Kynan Robinson and EnRusk
ECIS strive to create a reputation of inclusive learning for all. Together with our partners, we provide thought leadership and a dedicated willingness to help and support our community: to mentor and work to help everyone, to be committed wholehearted, to start a movement. Our Global Advisory is a piece of this vision, where all stakeholders are empowered to make a difference for our students, our teams and the world we create together.
EnRusk is a global consultancy working with schools globally to facilitate change. They bring years of experience as well as new tools and fresh approaches to problem-solving, including Design Thinking, creativity and Agile methodologies. They are leaders, professionals, and innovators but also artists, writers, and visionaries who can effectively guide you through any challenge you may face. EnRusk was founded and is led by Dr Kynan Robinson. Dr Robinson has forged a global career as an innovator, thought leader and master facilitator helping schools and education organisations rethink themselves, transforming them into cultures of innovation and change ensuring they stay connected and contributing to the latest thinking around learning and education. His passion for systems thinking, creativity and its role in education, a student-centred approach and building networks and communities that can learn from each other has resulted in him receiving global acclaim and numerous awards acknowledging his work. His personal research, resulting in his dissertation, is considered groundbreaking and “an important contribution to the field of education” (D. Sumara Professor, University of Calgary). In it he redefined creativity as collective experiences and defined ways our schools can better enable it. His vision for leaning and schooling aligns closely with ECIS’s vision and purpose.
Embracing change
If 2020 taught us anything, it’s that change isn’t a choice, it’s an imperative. The pandemic and other global crises have caught many educators a little off guard. But rather than being merely reactionary now is the time to take the helm and redesign our schools so we can all thrive and have the agility to iterate, no matter what the future may hold. Now is the time to take the helm and redesign our schools so we can all thrive and have the agility to iterate, no matter what the future may hold.
In even the best of times, research suggests that if schools are not changing or evolving, they stagnate, and stagnation can lead to failure. Our dedicated team of experts will support you to undertake a process of change, to become sustainable and provide students in your curtilage the opportunity to achieve their full potential. We will provide you with the tools to keep innovating and honing your communication, so you become a trusted voice. This includes Agile methodologies, Design Thinking and our own frameworks that we have developed over decades of experience.
COURSE COMPONENTS & TIMINGS
To earn the ECIS Programme Certificate, learners must complete four courses from the choice of six below, with The Culture of Leadership as the core (mandatory) course. All courses are 100% online for the foreseeable.
In each course section below, there are two links. The first is to register interest to attend a future event where the date has yet to be determined. Simply complete the form and we will let you know as and when courses become available. The second link will take you to our events calendar to see our current MLC courses.
Learning is split into four sessions which either take the form of two mornings or two afternoons, or split across 4 days.
DEFINING YOUR VALUES
Inspire your staff and students with an impactful vision and act on your values, in your school and in your community.
An organization’s values aren’t just words on a website; they are the tenets that drive daily decision-making, long-term strategy, and how you are involved in your community. When your school is guided by strong values, it has purpose, direction, and a thriving culture. We will help you articulate and shape your vision and values, and build best practices to manifest them.
You will be empowered to start telling your own story, and stand out by standing for so much more than an education.
What you can expect:
- Guidance in putting together a Design Team (DT) to define the new values and vision
- A series of workshops with the DT to envisage and test the emerging values
- Online coaching for DT members between workshops
- Support and guidance in implementing the new values and vision within your school
Takeaways:
- Strong, meaningful school values and a singular identity to build a culture around
- A sense of purpose and direction for future success
DEVELOPING AN AGILE STRATEGY FOR GROWTH
Working together to build a plan that inspires everyone.
We have guided many schools and education associations through a creative strategy-building process EnRusk has designed and adapted to a variety of schools and education-adjacent institutions. The process is designed to help schools architect their futures through the examination and interrogation of the status quo to address challenging problems and collaboratively design innovative solutions. Creating an agile school strategy involves listening, creativity, collaboration, and communication. It will lead to change and new ways of working. We will assist in the development of new processes, tools and help to develop a mindset of inclusiveness and continual creativity.
What you can expect:
• Agreed vision and mission statement
• Research and analysis on current data
• Workshops to uncover challenges and design innovative proven solutions
• Objective setting sessions
• Actions, timeline, and resourcing sessions
Takeaways:
• Clear, ambitious objectives
• Defined Key Performance Indicators or Key Results used to measure success
• Strategies from the agile toolkit to make sure you stay on track
• Highly innovative strategic projects including coaching to completion
• Final strategy documentation including a communications plan
• A new culture of agile thinking
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