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The key purpose of school leadership is to improve learning.
What Works in School Leadership? examines research evidence and leadership models that focus on learning, and provides resources that will help readers to understand their school's culture and develop strategies to change and improve their schools.
List of contents
Preface
Foreword
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Leading Learning
Chapter 3: School Culture and Improvement
Chapter 4: Leading Change
Chapter 5: The Empowered and/or Squeezed Middle
Chapter 6: Leading Professional Development
Chapter 7: Recruitment and Retention of staff: Leadership Implications
Chapter 8: Motivating Teachers
Chapter 9: Leading More Inclusively: Addressing Diversity and Equity
Chapter 10: Conclusion: Reflection on School Leadership
About the author
Linet Arthur has extensive experience in educational leadership. This includes teaching courses on educational leadership and management to hundreds of students (at MA and doctoral levels). She has also undertaken research, training and consultancy in educational leadership for schools, local authorities and government departments in the UK and internationally.
Debra McGregor works at Oxford Brookes University. She has worked in education for nearly 40 years. She has taught in primary and secondary schools and various university settings in the UK, Europe and the USA. She has published many papers and books concerned with teaching and learning, the performing arts, cognitive development, the nature of creativity, school leadership and close to practice research.
Summary
The key purpose of school leadership is to improve learning. What Works in School Leadership? examines research evidence and leadership models that focus on learning, and provides resources that will help readers to understand their school’s culture and develop strategies to change and improve their schools.
