Thinking
The latest thinking from our team of experts and our community of frontline educators.
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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.
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Complexity, purpose and problems in school leadership
In this blog, Jennifer Barker and Tom Rees explore the complexity, purpose and problems of school leaders’ work.
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What is school leadership?
In the first blog of a series which puts the concept of school leadership under the spotlight, Jennifer Barker and Tom Rees explore what school leadership is, and what the literature tells us.
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Balancing formal and informal knowledge
Manjit More explains how he pursued "expert common sense" through a balance of formal and informal knowledge.
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Continuing school improvement during school reopenings
Nimish Lad breaks down curriculum, middle leadership development, and embedding change in the midst of a pandemic.