Review My Leadership Project
This lesson is Unit 2: Arts leadership, Part 2E: Leadership project review. You will judge how your project went and what you learnt about leading. Your own view must connect to things that actually happened.
Keep this separate from Unit 1: Arts practice and pathways. That unit holds your own arts challenge, event review and arts research. Today you are reviewing your role in the leadership project.
A useful review can show success and limits together. You do not need to claim the project was perfect. You need to explain your choices, their effects, and what you would carry forward.
SPACE stays available. VOICE is received. AUDIENCE names back exactly. INFLUENCE changes one real next action.
Arrival · retrieve
Gather the records of what happened
Open the real plan and records: aim and role from 2A, practical choices from 2B, delivery from 2C and teamwork from 2D. Keep actual feedback beside them.
Use your usual writing or communication tool. A photo, saved message, sample or located recording can recall a decision; your face need not appear.
Choose a moment showing your role or a change. Point to its record. Separate memory from what it confirms.
If delivery has not happened, review preparation honestly and prepare questions for the later review.
SPACE stays available. VOICE is received. AUDIENCE names back exactly. INFLUENCE changes one real next action.
Starter · create the need
Move from a list of events to a judgement
Read this authored example: “We set out the paper. I showed a fold. The group made shapes.” It tells us an order, but it does not judge the leader’s choices or their effects.
Now read: “My first fold was hard to see. I moved the model closer after someone asked. That helped me explain the base, but I needed to check the back of the group too.”
The second example identifies an action, a response and a limit. It opens a useful question: what record would support that judgement? Neither example describes your project.
With a partner or adult, choose one phrase that makes the second review useful. Explain what a reader learns about the leader, rather than just the finished shapes.
SPACE stays available. VOICE is received. AUDIENCE names back exactly. INFLUENCE changes one real next action.
I Do · model
Link a claim to a real example
Use this teaching example record: Aim — help people make a standing paper form. Role — explain the base fold. Note — “I moved the model after a request.” Feedback — “I could see the fold once it moved.” All details belong only to this model.
A review could say: “Moving the model helped this person see the fold. I responded to their request, so my explanation became easier for them to follow.” That claim matches the feedback.
It could not claim that everyone learnt the fold. One person’s comment does not tell us what the whole group understood. The leader would need other evidence for that wider claim.
The next step can grow from that limit: “Next time I would check each viewing position before the first fold.” This is a future choice, not a claim that it has already been tested.
SPACE stays available. VOICE is received. AUDIENCE names back exactly. INFLUENCE changes one real next action.
We Do · everyone commits
Separate judgement, evidence and next step
Sort these example review cards. All concern the teacher’s paper-form example, not a claim about your project.
Model explanations
- “Moving the model made my explanation clearer for the person who asked.” — Judgement. This interprets what the event meant. It needs the actual response to support the judgement.
- “The feedback says: I could see the fold once it moved.” — Evidence. The quoted response is evidence for this person’s experience, not the whole group’s learning.
- “Before another session, I would check the view from each place.” — Next step. This is a reasoned future action. It has not already been tested.
- “My project note records that I moved the model after a request.” — Evidence. A true project note records the action. Its location lets the reader check the account.
This model supports discussion. A well-explained different connection can be useful too.
Test one judgement in your own review against the real record. Separate your contribution from the group result, keep feedback attributed and choose a reasoned next step.
Activity model: Separate judgement, evidence and next step
- “Moving the model made my explanation clearer for the person who asked.” — Judgement. This interprets what the event meant. It needs the actual response to support the judgement.
- “The feedback says: I could see the fold once it moved.” — Evidence. The quoted response is evidence for this person’s experience, not the whole group’s learning.
- “Before another session, I would check the view from each place.” — Next step. This is a reasoned future action. It has not already been tested.
- “My project note records that I moved the model after a request.” — Evidence. A true project note records the action. Its location lets the reader check the account.
This classroom check is not an award grade or proof of completed pupil evidence.
SPACE stays available. VOICE is received. AUDIENCE names back exactly. INFLUENCE changes one real next action.
I Do 2 · connect
Separate your contribution from the group result
A group artwork shows what the group made. Your leadership review also needs your own role. Choose a decision you made, an action you took, or a response you gave to another person.
Use “we” when the team acted together and “I” when naming your contribution. You can value other people’s ideas without taking credit for them. A shared decision may still show how you listened or helped.
Feedback can disagree with your first view. You might feel an explanation was clear while a participant needed another example. Describe both views, then decide what the evidence helps you conclude.
If feedback was not gathered, name that limit. You may ask an available participant now, but record the reply only after they give it.
SPACE stays available. VOICE is received. AUDIENCE names back exactly. INFLUENCE changes one real next action.
We Do 2 · lab
Test one judgement with a listener
Choose a real moment from your records. Tell a partner or adult what you think it shows about your leadership. Show the linked evidence while they listen or read.
Ask them to point to the part that supports your judgement. If they cannot find it, decide whether the record is missing, the location is unclear, or the claim needs to be narrower.
Use this prompt if useful: “I think __ because __. My own role was __. A limit is __.” You decide the words and the meaning. The listener can ask a question without rewriting your view.
Keep one change that makes the judgement fairer or clearer. A claim may become smaller and more convincing when you remove something the evidence cannot show.
SPACE stays available. VOICE is received. AUDIENCE names back exactly. INFLUENCE changes one real next action.
Independent · evidence
Make your own leadership-project review
Review the project aim and your role. Explain useful practical decisions, what happened in delivery, and how you worked with others. Use real feedback where available. Judge what you achieved, what was limited, and what you learnt.
Choose a next step that follows from the review. Explain why it could help. It may be something to keep, change or check, rather than a claim that you need a larger project.
- Core · Use spoken answers, signs, a recording or short notes to cover the aim, your role, decisions, delivery, teamwork and real feedback. Link your judgement to evidence, name a limit, and choose a reasoned next step. Check any exact adult scribing.
- Extend · Make a connected written or spoken review covering the same project evidence. Separate your contribution from the team’s result, explain achievements and limits, and justify your next step with a real example.
- Challenge · Complete the same full review, then weigh a difference between your view and actual feedback or another record. Explain how far the evidence supports your conclusion and how it informs your next step.
Save this work under Unit 2, Part 2E. Give the actual file name and page, slide or timecode for the review and each supporting record you use.
SPACE stays available. VOICE is received. AUDIENCE names back exactly. INFLUENCE changes one real next action.
Exit · Audience and Influence
Explain what your review has changed
Show one conclusion to a listener. Ask what they now understand about your role. If their answer changes your meaning, explain it again or adjust the wording yourself.
Name the next step you chose and the evidence behind it. You can decide to keep a useful approach as well as change something that did not work. Both choices need a reason.
Mark whether the review is ready to check next lesson or still has a gap. Keep the actual gap and the help you need visible. A review of preparation remains labelled as such until delivery can be reviewed.
SPACE stays available. VOICE is received. AUDIENCE names back exactly. INFLUENCE changes one real next action.