Successful School Leadership: Linking with Learning and Achievement by Christopher Day

Successful School Leadership: Linking with Learning and Achievement by Christopher Day

This book is based on the largest and most extensive empirical study of contemporary leadership in primary and secondary schools in England. The results demonstrate that heads of successful schools improve the quality of student learning and achievement through who they are – their values, virtues, dispositions and competencies – as well as their timely use of change and improvement strategies.Successful School Leadership provides a comprehensive analysis of the values and qualities of head teachers. It assesses the strategies they use and how they adapt these to their particular school context in order to ensure positive increases in the learning, well being and achievement of their students. The authors: Identify a basic set of leadership practices resulting from their findings Analyse and describe the leadership values, qualities and behaviours related to different phases in schools’ improvement journeysProvide illustrative case studies of primary and secondary schools that highlight context sensitive strategies Provide a contemporary overview of international research and thinking about successful school leadershipRecognize similar and distinguishing features between schools in different socio-economic groups This book is valuable reading for…school leaders and senior teachers, educational policy makers and advisors, as well as anyone involved or interested in education and its leadership.

David Hopkins is the inaugural HSBC Chair in International Leadership, International arm of the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust and the Leadership Centre at the Institute of Education, University of London. Between 2002 and 2005 he served three Secretary of States as the Chief Adviser on School Standards at the Department for Education and Skills. Previously, he was Chair of the Leicester City Partnership Board and Dean of the Faculty of Education at the University of Nottingham. David is also an International Mountain Guide who still climbs regularly in the Alps and Himalayas. He has previously outlined his views on teaching quality, school improvement and large scale reform in Hopkins D. (2001) School Improvement for Real, Routledge / Falmer and Hopkins D (2007) Every School a Great School, Open University Press.

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ISBN 13	9780335242436
ISBN 10	033524243X
Title	Successful School Leadership: Linking with Learning and Achievement
Author	Christopher Day
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Open University Press
Year published	2011-05-16
Number of pages	304
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