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The Leadership Institute

What the Leadership Institute offers

The Barbados Educational Leadership Institute is a new national academy. It offers practical, job-embedded professional development for aspiring and serving leaders.

What it offers

  1. Programmes: the Aspiring Leaders Programme, the Principal Development Programme and the System Leader Professional Development Programme.
  2. Formats: face to face, online, blended and cohort programmes.
  3. Coaching Skills Labs: take a deep dive into a topic, get coaching on it, then put it into practice at work.
  4. Learning by doing: job-embedded learning, mentoring, coaching, networking, and project-, problem- and competency-based learning.
  5. Topics include: education law, leader well-being and effective leadership practice. Also updates on Barbados education, continuous improvement, coaching, conflict resolution and leadership research.
  6. Who can take part: department heads, senior teachers, deputy principals, principals, education officers and system leaders.

How the Institute is run

  • A policy board oversees the Institute, including strategy, finance, delegation and risk.
  • The board chair is appointed by the Minister. Members include the Chief Education Officer, the Principal of ETTC, an education officer, and members appointed by principals’ associations, teachers’ unions, the National Parent-Teacher Association and the National Association of Students.
  • An Executive Director runs the Institute and reports to the board chair.
  • Staff include an administrative assistant, an accounts officer, a programme developer and coordinator, a research, monitoring and evaluation coordinator, and part-time instructors and coaches who are experienced leaders.
  • Funding comes from government and participant fees.
  • Programmes are based on the Barbados Educational Leadership Standards and are monitored and evaluated.

The guides do not yet give the Institute’s website address.

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The law and policy behind this

Both practice guidesSection 8 and Table 8.1 in both guides · draft of 27 May 2026

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