Even if you do not see yourself as a leader yet
Educational change in higher education often begins quietly.
Through conversations. Shared questions. Small initiatives. People who care deeply about teaching and learning and gradually influence what happens around them.
Many educators and educational developers are already shaping educational practice long before they recognise it as leadership.
5 Signs You Are Already Leading Educational Change is a short reflective resource designed to help you recognise some of those patterns within your own work and context.
Rather than offering a checklist or model, this guide invites you to pause and reflect on how educational change often emerges through everyday practice, relationships, and shared inquiry.
This resource helps you to:
- recognise early signs of informal educational leadership
- reflect on how educational change may already be happening through your work
- identify patterns across teaching, teams, and educational conversations
- think more deliberately about influence, sustainability, and connection
Part of a broader conversation about educational change
This guide was developed alongside the open-access book:
Routes to Change – Strategic Leadership in SoTL (availabe of June 2, 2026)
edited by Andrea Webb and Irma Meijerman.
The book explores how educational change and SoTL leadership emerge across different higher education contexts.
Want to continue the conversation?
If this resource resonates with your own experiences — or if you would like to think further about educational leadership, SoTL, curriculum development, or sustainable educational change within your own context — feel free to get in touch.
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