Hur influerar och förstår rektor och lärare varandra i vardagsarbetet? Vilken betydelse har skolsammanhanget för samspelet mellan rektor och lärare? Boken belyser hur rektor och lärare influerar varandra och samproducerar ledarskap i skolvardagen. F…
Mycket uppmärksamhet ägnas skolor som är excellenta, föredömliga och har starka resultat liksom skolor som inte alls lyckas i sin verksamhet och är i kris. Den här boken bygger på ett projekt som sökt utvecklingsmöjligheterna för 24 skolor som ligge…
I denna bok beskriver författarna hur skolinspektioner kan gå till på gräsrotsnivå. Det innebär att läsaren får kunskap om vad som sker när inspektörer möter skolorna och skolornas olika representanter; hur de arbetar och tänker; vilka bedömningsgru…
"How to Not Be a Terrible School Board Member" is a practical guide both for how to become an effective school board member, and for how school administrators can improve their board relations. The intended audience is prospective, present, and past…
School leadership can be both immensely rewarding and deeply challenging. Headteachers are under intense pressure when dealing with issues that can range from dealing with difficult parents and the aftermath of tragedy or scandal, to the day-to-day…
In a rapidly changing educational climate, leadership is more crucial than ever to school performance. Internal capacity and effective partnerships are essential to navigate through change and meet the ever-growing and changing demands of stakeholde…
What are the qualities that truly great school leaders possess and how do they use them to make their schools successful? For this book, Jeremy Sutcliffe has interviewed some of the UK's leading head teachers and principals and discusses with them t…
The leadership of schools can make a significant difference to enhancing the life chances of students in schools and enabling them to succeed. This book examines leadership within schools, focusing on securing success within a challenging social and…
Sustainable School Transformation explores how we can best build a truly world class education system in the UK and US. It presents a theoretical and practical case for an alternative approach that combines the rigour of traditionally top down accou…
Children and Social Change explores memories of childhood. Dorothy Moss examines experiences not commonly associated with everyday childhood, focusing on, for example war, migration, employment, religion, policing, and civil and industrial unrest. H…
Gender, Identity and Educational Leadership explores how head teachers' social identities - particularly pertaining to gender, social class and ethnicity - influence their leadership of diverse populations of pupils and staff. Informed by new resear…
This is not a book about the school system as a whole or how governments can help or hinder school improvement. It is a book about supporting and inspiring leaders and teachers to help schools achieve ever greater success. By combining their extensi…