Thinking
The latest thinking from our team of experts and our community of frontline educators.
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Expertise, mental models and leadership knowledge
Jennifer and Tom explore the development of expertise, including how individuals develop expert mental models and how these models guide action in such a way that enables them to more effectively address the persistent problems of their work.
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Organising a curriculum for leadership development
Jen Barker and Tom Rees explore some of the curriculum design challenges that are presented when thinking about ‘domain-specific’ leadership development.
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Leadership knowledge: more inclusive and hopeful than the 'born to do it' narrative
Principal of Lodge Park Academy Carly Waterman rejects the 'born to do it' mythos in favour of a more inclusive – but potentially more challenging – vision of what it means to be a school leader.
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Beyond the generic/domain-specific leadership dichotomy
In the latest addition to their leadership series, Jennifer Barker and Tom Rees look to move the debate beyond the dichotomy between generic leadership skills and domain knowledge.
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Generic and domain-specific perspectives of school leadership
In the latest in the leadership blog series, Jennifer Barker and Tom Rees explore generic approaches to leadership development, which they argue have become the orthodox way of describing and developing school leaders in recent years, and compare these to more domain-specific approaches.