JOURNEY OF SCHOOL LEADERSHIP ACADEMY

School leadership Academy (SLA) was established in 2016 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 all blocks and clusters of the total 22 districts of 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, Haryana has organized a One-Month Certificate Course for school leaders and online pedagogical leadership programme with great 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. Online guest lectures and webinars were also conducted on emerging issues such as 21st 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.