Following its best selling first edition this book explores the principles of total quality in education and explains how to implement them. Packed with case studies showing quality in action, this practical book enables your school to reap the benefits of a total quality approach. Managing Quality in Schools includes: guidance on developing a strategy for implementation how to apply Total Quality Management to schools case studies of quality in action in schools references to new developments in inspection and self-management discussion on new approaches to the theory and practice. This invaluable handbook will be welcomed by head teachers, deputy head teachers and all those concerned with quality in education, school improvement and school effectiveness.

Managing Quality in Schools: Effective Strategies for Quality-Based School Improvement

John West-Burnham

Pitman Publishing

Understanding Leadership

Are current leadership roles and relationships appropriate in a rapidly changing world? Do we need to rethink key assumptions about leaders and leadership? Are you confident about the appropriateness and effectiveness of your chosen leadership styles and behaviors? These are questions facing leaders today and Understanding Leadership can help find the answers, with an approach that is neither normative nor prescriptive but rather exploratory and developmental. Applying research and case studies from inside and outside the educational canon, John West-Burnham and Libby Nicholas challenge prevailing orthodoxies and invite readers to reflect on their personal understanding as the basis for translating theory into practice. All leadership behavior is based on a number of fundamental personal assumptions about the nature of human relationships and the basis on which human organizations function. Understanding Leadership helps leaders make their implicit understanding explicit and so informs and aids development of professional practice.Effective leaders (and effective people) develop and grow by understanding their personal mindscape - the mental map with which they make sense of the world - and developing it through reflecting, exploring, testing and questioning.

Understanding Leadership: Challenges and Reflections

Education & Teaching

Libby Nicholas

Schools & Teaching

Crown House Publishing

Presents school leaders with a vision-led analysis of what needs to change if schools are really to equip children and young people to thrive in our ever-changing world. 
In 'Leadership for Tomorrow: Beyond the School Improvement Horizon' Malcolm Groves, Andrew Hobbs, and John West-Burnham present a vision-led analysis of what needs to change if schools are really to equip children and young people to thrive in our ever-changing world. 
Continually adding improvements to existing models of schooling isn t enough: we need a more radical reconceptualisation of schooling s function and purpose. We need school leaders who can look beyond the horizon and lead on the strength of lessons learned from the here and now. In 'Leadership for Tomorrow' Groves, Hobbs, and West-Burnham expertly examine what needs to change if we are to lead our schools beyond today s limited school improvement horizon, and explore the nature of the change leadership which can make this happen. 
Rooted in the direct experience of innovative and successful school leaders, 'Leadership for Tomorrow' presents a wide range of strategies and case studies that will enable and inspire leaders to future-proof their school improvement approach and to fashion better futures for the children and young people in their care. Furthermore, by sharing their research-informed insight into and vision for the evolving nature of education, the authors hope to encourage leaders to go further in building both their own and their school s capacity to live, learn, and grow successfully. 
Split into three parts that interweave both theory and practice, 'Leadership for Tomorrow' poses a number of questions throughout to stimulate thinking about current and emerging issues in education and argue that consequent responses will vary in different contexts. Part One sets out and justifies theoretically the principles and values that underpin the authors vision for education, and signposts the evidence which highlights the limitations of short-term thinking and the reasons for why it is destined to fail. In Part Two the authors focus on more practical matters by presenting case studies of five school leaders to examine their work through the lens of the four-quadrant Schools of Tomorrow Framework, which depicts the beyond outstanding school as one that delivers highly effective family and community engagement and preparation for the future, as well as the highest levels of achievement and of well-being and involvement. Part Three then blends theory and practice with an in-depth analysis of what these leaders experiences can tell us about developing new understandings of leading change and school improvement for the future, which are at one and the same time values based and evidence informed. 
'Leadership for Tomorrow' is the result of nearly a decade of thinking, research, and observation of leadership practice which Groves, Hobbs, and West-Burnham have undertaken in a range of settings; the authors have written up some of this experience previously for Schools of Tomorrow (SoTo) a small research and development group made up of school leaders working together to shape a better future for their schools. 
Whilst 'Leadership for Tomorrow' is primarily focused on changes within the English educational system, the authors hope that the lessons derived from the book s content will be of interest to leaders in other school systems too. 
Suitable for school leaders, those preparing for leadership, and those with an interest in leadership development and policy.

Leadership for Tomorrow: Beyond the school improvement horizon

Malcolm Groves

Andrew Hobbs

Following on from the bestselling Leadership Dialogues, Dave Harris and John West-Burnham s Leadership Dialogues II,/i&gt; examines eight more themes crucial to the effective education of our young people in schools. We are living in times in which school leaders are looking for both simple answers and detailed instructions to help them progress to their goals. But in a period of rapid change, like the one we are in now (at least for the foreseeable future), there is no step-by-step guide, there is no instruction manual only strong tools to support leadership teams on their journey.Leadership Dialogues II is not a book containing all the answers; rather it is a book containing many of the questions that will help school leaders work with their colleagues to find the answers for their own schools within the communities in which they work. Harris and West-Burnham believe that the best people to interrogate the problems and find the answers are those people working in, leading and governing these schools every day, and so they have compiled this helpful resource to promote more constructive dialogue and debate which will result in the generation of feasible solutions specific to their own schools.Each of the eight themes in Leadership Dialogues II is of contemporary relevance to 21st century education and is split into five sections, each containing an outline on why this is an important topic, some key quotes to engage your thinking, a 10 minute discussion to provoke debate, some questions for your team to consider and to help frame the dialogue s outcomes downloadable, printable resources for each section. The resources are often in tabular form and relate to the material, which means they can be used with little extra preparation, and are all available for download in PDF and Word formats for ease of circulation. The only thing you have to do is think, discuss and then act.The eight themes explored are: Securing equity and engagement Clarifying the purpose of education Middle leadership the engine room of the school Managing resources Learning and technology Education beyond the school Alternative staffing models Developing evidence based practice. Suitable for school leadership teams in any setting.

Leadership Dialogues II: Leadership in times of change

Dave Harris

Rethinking The Curriculum

Jane Renowden

Maria James

Brown Dog Books

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