Thinking
The latest thinking from our team of experts and our community of frontline educators.
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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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Two big questions about becoming a school middle leader
As their Expert Middle Leaders programme comes to a close, seven participants share their reflections on the development journey they’ve been on and how they became the teachers and leaders they are today.
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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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From trainee teacher to tech problem solver – one man’s plan to use instructional coaching to build an army of expert teachers
When Josh Goodrich first stepped into the classroom back in 2009, he knew he had a lot to learn. What came of his early struggles was a platform to deliver instructional coaching to teachers across the country.
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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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