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The illusion of leadership

2018-10-12T17:36:26+01:00June 8th, 2018|Featured|

Everyone knows what's needed to turn around a struggling school: strong leadership. In order for it to be deemed necessary for school to be consigned to 'special measures,' something has to have gone badly wrong. It's more than likely true that poor leadership will be at the heart of the problem. So, the school is taken over and a new 'strong leader' is parachuted in to turn it around. This tends to be fairly straightforward. Very bad (and very good) schools conform to the Anna Karenina principle: "All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” [...]

What I want from a school leader

2019-03-14T14:14:09+00:00November 28th, 2015|leadership|

In response to various posts on book monitoring earlier in the week, Lee Donaghy asked what the role of school leaders ought to be. Now, some would have it that because I don't lead a school any opinion I might offer is invalid. Many people do not understand the purpose of leading teaching and learning. Why? Because they have never done it. — @TeacherToolkit (@TeacherToolkit) November 26, 2015 This is an interesting perspective. In response, I'd like to submit that there might be plenty of people who do lead in schools who don't seem to understand the purpose of what they're doing either. Just doing [...]

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