The nomination process to
elect headteachers and academy trust bosses onto influential boards that advise regional schools commissioners has launched today.
Morgan said that below these eight commissioners, appointed by the Department for Education, will be
elected headteacher boards, which will consist of outstanding headteachers.
«The east midlands current headteacher board does not have
any elected headteachers on it,» he said.
Not exact matches
«I know from personal experience how much
headteacher boards help inform decisions and I'm looking forward to working with the newly -
elected members to help make our school system even better.»
Those
elected to
headteacher boards do not have decision - making powers, but provide local expertise to inform the decisions of National and Regional Schools Commissioners and ministers.
Elected Member of the
Headteacher Board for the East Midlands and Humber.
And it has since been confirmed that Thelma Walker, a former
headteacher who was
elected to represent Colne Valley in June, will also serve, as will James Frith, the former head of careers education social enterprise All Together.
The
headteacher board had seven members back in 2014: four were
elected (Jack Acklam, Pamela Birch and Alan Yellup were serving school leaders, while Martin Shevill was a former head), two appointed (academy trust bosses Sir Iain Hall and Sir Michael Wilkins) and one co-opted (Sir Rod Aldridge from the London - based Aldridge Foundation).
No more than one
headteacher or school leader per multi-academy trust can be
elected onto any one
headteacher board, the website states.
However heads from the same trust can be
elected on to different
headteacher boards, only if the trust operates across more than one region.
Correction: This story was amended on July 10th to make clear that no more than one
headteacher or school leader per multi-academy trust can be
elected onto any one
headteacher board.
Second, the inclusion of serving academy
headteachers,
elected by their peers, is a first attempt to enable school leaders to take a role, albeit at this stage non-executive, in regulating the system.