Leadership and stuff
This NCSL articles puts forward the importance of effective school leaders. The claims are, in my opinion, irrefutable: School leadership is second only to classroom teaching as an influence on pupil learning. Almost all...
I designed this to support departments in creating a new sef in line with the new framework. It also a useful base for the whole school SEF.
Some organisations excel at developing and creating leaders. They are blessed by talented leadership at all levels; they send people on to bigger and better things and maintain a healthy progression internally. Given the...
Collins book Good to Great researches successful companies and draws out key features of those that have made the transition from Good to Great. A summary of the key ideas: Confront the Brutal Facts...
‘15000 hours – Secondary schools and their effect on children’ by Professor Michael Rutter looked into patterns of life within the walls of a school, and how these patterns affected pupil achievement. Rutter’s team...
Sir John Whitmore is Executive Chairman of Performance Consultants International and a well respected lecturer and consultant on human resource management. He is the author of Coaching for Performance, one of the best-selling coaching...
Supporting Middle Leaders: Discussion Document OFSTED describes middle leaders as the ‘engine house of school improvement’. Effective, well managed and motivated middle leaders drive the school forward. Transformation cannot take place without distributive leadership....
This is a summary of a four-year project (2000-2004), undertaken at the University of Cambridge, focussing on the gender gap in achievement. Boys’ underachievement is currently of international concern, and has been a high...
Treat staff as a whole (all levels treated same). For example always send the youngest member of the admin team down to meet and greet people being interviewed Structure not hierarchy Clear structures needed...
