Successful School Leadership: Linking with Learning and Achievement

Häftad, Engelska, 2011

AvChristopher Day,Pam Sammons,Ken Leithwood,David Hopkins,Qing Gu,Eleanor Brown,Elpida Ahtaridou

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2011-05-16
Mått152 x 231 x 17 mm
Vikt413 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor304
FörlagMcGraw-Hill Education
ISBN9780335242436

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David Hopkins is the inaugural HSBC Chair in International Leadership, International arm of the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust and the Leadership Centre at the Institute of Education, University of London. Between 2002 and 2005 he served three Secretary of States as the Chief Adviser on School Standards at the Department for Education and Skills. Previously, he was Chair of the Leicester City Partnership Board and Dean of the Faculty of Education at the University of Nottingham. David is also an International Mountain Guide who still climbs regularly in the Alps and Himalayas. He has previously outlined his views on teaching quality, school improvement and large scale reform in Hopkins D. (2001) School Improvement for Real, Routledge / Falmer and Hopkins D (2007) Every School a Great School, Open University Press.

ForewordPart One - Contexts for SuccessLeaders and Contexts: What Previous Research Tells Us About the RelationshipWhat All Successful Leaders Do In Most ContextsPart Two - Leadership Actions and Pupil OutcomesModels of Leadership and Pupil OutcomesSimilarities and Differences Between Primary and Secondary Leaders: A Badly Neglected Distinction in Leadership Research and TrainingCharacteristics and Practices of Leaders in Schools which Improved from Different Starting Points Part Three - Who Heads Are and What They Do To Build and Sustain SuccessCore Values and Practices: Leadership, Learning and Improvement Phases of School ImprovementLayered Leadership Strategies: How Leaders Achieve and Sustain Successful School ImprovementPart Four - Future Progress and ProspectsOrganisational Democracy, Trust and The Progressive Distribution ofLeadershipSuccessful Leadership: Contexts, Claims and Qualities