Freedom to lead: inspirational leadership of primary schools
Our research report, Freedom to Lead: a study of outstanding primary school leadership in England, was written in collaboration with Peter Matthews, Robert Hill and Qing Gu. We were immensely fortunate in being able to visit and interview a range of outstanding primary school leaders in their schools over the last 18 months
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Read-out from the Shaping the role of the local authority in education conference in Bristol
I was delighted to be invited to present an overview of our "temperature check" report at a conference on the role of local authorities in education in Bristol last week.
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Transforming a local authority’s support for school improvement: Seven lessons from Norfolk
In June 2013, Ofsted inspected Norfolk County Council's arrangements for supporting school improvement. They judged that these were not effective, and outlined a number of areas for improvement.
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Key lessons for leading change in a local education system: Our starter-for-seven
In our evolving education system "temperature check" report, we suggested seven lessons for leading the next stage of change in local education systems.
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Three types of transition that local systems have experienced
When writing our evolving education system "temperature check" research report, we reflected on the different types of transitions that the local systems had made and were still making in response to the changing education landscape.
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