HARYANA

JOURNEY OF SCHOOL LEADERSHIP ACADEMY

School leadership Academy (SLA) was established in 2014 at State Council of Educational Research and Training (SCERT) Haryana under the umbrella of National Centre for School leadership (NCSL), National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration (NIEPA). SLA, Haryana is aiming at the transformation of schools by addressing the leadership requirements and other school issues in 22 districts, 119 blocks, and 1475 clusters in the state. In order to realize the aim of SLA of transforming schools by creating new generation leaders, SLA conducts training programmes for all newly promoted heads as well as for existing heads. Capacity building training for State Resource Group (SRG) is also conducted by SLA. Apart from training, SLA, SCERT documents best practices of school leaders in the form of case studies and videography. These documents are uploaded on NCSL portal as well as on SCERT website. For the purpose of uploading videos, SLA, SCERT has its own YouTube channel where video resources are shared. The database of school leaders who have been trained under various schemes and policies is also maintained by SLA, Haryana.

SLA has organized professional development programmes for thousands of school leaders so far. SLA, Haryana has organized a One-Month Certificate Course for school leaders and online pedagogical leadership programme with great success. During Covid-19, SLA provided 5 days training through online mode to newly promoted principals and headmasters. Before the commencement of training, Training Need Analysis (TNA) is done to record the areas where school leaders expect training. State Resource Group and different resource persons from reputed institutions, universities and SCERT fraternity contribute to make it a success. SLA, Haryana is also working on development of online module on school leadership development where the topics like cyber-crime, community participation, POCSO, Education in Mewat, extra-curricular activities and role of leaders in respective areas have already been uploaded on NCSL portal and SCERT website. SLA has also documented best practices in the form of case study booklets, separate case studies of initiatives during Covid- 19 and videos of schools which are available on NCSL portal and SCERT website. Online guest lectures and webinars were also conducted on emerging issues such as 21 st century skills, NEP 2020, development of SCF etc. by SLA for continuous professional development of school leaders and telecasted live on YouTube channel of SLA for future reference and creating an open repository. SLA, Haryana continues the journey and is looking forward to achieving the goal of Continuous Professional Development (CPD) set by NEP 2020.