Series:

School Leadership

1 primary work • 4 total works

Book 1

Cover of Strategic Direction and Development of the School
The government is now training around 6000 deputy heads per year towards a new qualification: the National Professional Qualification for Headship (NPQH). This book covers the one compulsory module for this qualification which is called Strategic Direction and Development of the School. This book will be essential for all those embarking on the NPQH and those teaching or supervising it.

Cover of School Leadership in the 21st Century

Education reform continues to be a dominating feature of education in the UK and many other countries throughout the world. As a result of this, it is now more important than ever that headteachers and school managers develop the skills which enable them to manage their new responsibilities effectively.

In School Leadership in the 21st Century all the major aspects of school leadership are discussed, including:

  • the strategic and ethical dimensions of leadership
  • leading and managing change
  • leading and managing staff in high performance schools
  • information for student learning and organisational learning
  • transformation of schools in the tewnty-first century.

The authors of this completely updated and revised edition have addressed the new standards and competency frameworks, making this an essential read for all headteachers and aspiring headteachers on NPQH or LPSH courses and anyone else with an interest in school leadership.

Cover of Building Leadership Capacity in Schools
There has been an explosion of leadership and management training in schools at all levels from head teacher and deputy head teacher to those in curriculum leadership and other middle management roles. This guide has been written for head teachers and deputy head teachers who are seeking to increase and develop their own leadership skills as well as the skills of those who have leadership responsibilities throughout the school. The well-known authors provide a new, practical model for building leadership capacity in a school. The model has four stages: articulate the purpose; build an understanding of good practice; create a dialogue between staff; and define a common leadership perspective.

Cover of The New Strategic Direction and Development of the School

Schools will not be able to continue to improve unless they move away from an over-concentration on the short-term and focus on the strategic nature of planning and development. The more targets, the less the effects - what we need is strategy and sustainability. This book links school improvement planning and strategic development for leadership enhancement as well as for management accountability.

Short-term planning, in the form of target-setting plans aimed at improving standards, has gained increasing importance. While the book agrees that this is necessary, it puts forward the view that short-term planning is not sufficient for the longer-term development of the school. Sustainability and strategic development are of critical importance and for these the authors believe that a more holistic approach to planning is necessary. To that end, this book links short and longer-term planning in a framework, which supports the strategic development of the school.

The authors are national experts in the field and in preparing this text have worked extensively with headteachers, deputy headteachers, governors and those participating in NPQH and masters programmes in educational leadership and management.