Thinking
The latest thinking from our team of experts and our community of frontline educators.
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So you want to be a CEO? The journey from headship to system leadership
This is an exclusive extract from the new book ‘Leading Academy Trusts: Why some fail, but most don’t’ by Sir David Carter with Laura McInerney. This extract is from Chapter 2, which charts the evolving landscape of school and system leadership and explores what this means for aspiring multi-academy trust CEOs.
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Assessing students’ needs for their return to school
Ambition's Harry Fletcher-Wood shares his insights from conversations with two headteachers about understanding the needs of pupils when they return to school.
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Leading in the face of disadvantage: If not us, then who?
Future Leader alumni Tuesday Humby walks us through her approach to school improvement – from raising pupil aspirations to helping her team to keep getting better.
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Collaboration and peer review: a path for trusts
Tom Glover, our Dean of Executive Leadership Programmes, outlines why Trusts need to collaborate better to drive real improvements for the education system and the children it serves.
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The school leader: harnessing colleagues’ expertise
In the second of two posts on how school leaders draw on their expertise to solve educational problems, headteacher and author, Matthew Evans, considers what can go wrong with decision making, and how leaders might get better at managing complex change.