<p>Envisioning the nature of schools of the future is more art than science. But the response of schools to challenges presented by such forces as technology, changing demographics, and government austerity offer useful clues. As a minimum, schools need to be able to thrive on uncertainty, have considerably greater capacities for collective problem solving than they do, and meet a wider array of student needs. This volume examines the type of leadership that are likely to be productive in creating and sustaining such schools. Based on a long term study of transformational leadership in school restructuring contexts, the chapters offer an account of such leadership grounded in a substantial body of evidence.</p>

Changing Leadership for Changing Times (Changing Education.)

Education & Teaching

Leithwood, Ken

Schools & Teaching

Open University Press

This book is based on the largest and most extensive empirical study of contemporary leadership in primary and secondary schools in England. The results demonstrate that heads of successful schools improve the quality of student learning and achievement through who they are – their values, virtues, dispositions and competencies – as well as their timely use of change and improvement strategies. Successful School Leadership provides a comprehensive analysis of the values and qualities of head teachers. It assesses the strategies they use and how they adapt these to their particular school context in order to ensure positive increases in the learning, well being and achievement of their students. The authors:  Identify a basic set of leadership practices resulting from their findings  Analyse and describe the leadership values, qualities and behaviours related to different phases in schools’ improvement journeys  Provide illustrative case studies of primary and secondary schools that highlight context sensitive strategies  Provide a contemporary overview of international research and thinking about successful school leadership  Recognize similar and distinguishing features between schools in different socio-economic groups This book is valuable reading for…school leaders and senior teachers, educational policy makers and advisors, as well as anyone involved or interested in education and its leadership.

Successful School Leadership: Linking with Learning

Brown, Eleanor

Day, Christopher

Sammons, Pam

Hopkins,David

Gu, Qing

Ahtaridou, Elpida

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