Leadership and persuasion

The Educational Leadership Pitch!

This activity can be used with any sized group. It requires participants to do some work in advance of your main professional learning meeting. See the Leaders of learning guide for support materials prior to commencing this activity.

Part A

Watch the short YouTube clip on the elevator pitch, along with the leader of learning's educational pitch video (previously developed) for why your colleagues should engage in the idea.

This has two purposes.

First of all, this will be a key element of engaging participants.
Secondly, this will serve as a model for participants as they will be developing pitches of their own!

In between task for participants:

Ask participants to work with one or two colleagues.
The group's task is to search YouTube with the following descriptor, 'TED talks educational leadership'. Their task is to choose the TED talk that has, for them, the most useful insight into leadership.
Have participants identify a short extract of less than 60 seconds from their TED talk which best captures this insight, and then develop an elevator pitch of no more than 2 minutes to persuade their colleagues to take this insight seriously.
Invite one volunteer from each group to come prepared to deliver the pitch at the next whole group meeting. Other than showing the extract of the clip, there is to be no use of data projector or slides during presentations.

Part B

Individual group members present their pitch. (Methods for having members present their pitch will vary depending on the size of the whole group, see the Leaders of learning guide for ideas).
Participants vote on which pitch presentation they found most compelling.
Whole group discussion:

- How might we put these ideas into practice in our school/faculty/team?

Professional learning in this toolbox activity is linked to the following NSW Professional Standards for Teachers

Standard 6: Engage in professional learning

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