Successful School Leadership Linking with Learning

by Day, Christopher; Sammons, Pam; Leithwood, Ken; Hopkins, David; Gu, Qing; Brown, Eleanor; Ahtaridou, Elpida

• ISBN13: 9780335242436
• ISBN10: 033524243X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-05-01
• Publisher: Open Univ Pr

Summary

This book examines the nature of successful school leadership - what is it, what does it look like in practice and what are the consequences for schools and pupils. As well as providing a contemporary overview of international research and thinking about successful school leadership, it identifies similar and distinguishing features of successful leadership in different sectors; between heads of different experience; and between schools in different socio-economic circumstances. It introduces the notions of 'layered leadership' and 'progressive trust' as key features of successful leadership. Additionally it discusses issues of sustainability and resilience in successful school leadership. Finally it considers how successful school leadership connects to pupil success, exploring the leadership strategies used by successful heads in a range of primary and secondary schools whose pupil attainment results had improved over a three year period during their headship.

Author Biography

Christopher Day is Professor Emeritus at the School of Education in the University of Nottingham, Uk. Pam Sammons is a Professor of Education at the Department of Education, University of Oxford and a Senior Research Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford, Uk. Ken Leithwood is Professor Emeritus of Educational Leadership and Policy at Oise/University of Toronto, Canada. David Hopkins is Professor Emeritus at the Institute of Education, University of London, Uk. Qing Gu, is an Associate Professor in the School of Education, University of Nottingham, UK. Eleanor J. Brown is a Research Associate and PhD student in the School of Education, University of Nottingham, Uk. Elpida Ahtaridou is a Principal Researcher at Lsn (Learning and Skills Network), Uk.

Table of Contents

List of figures	p. vii
List of tables	p. ix
List of appendices	p. xi
List of contributors	p. xiii
Foreword	p. xvii
Acknowledgements	p. xxi
Contexts for success	p. 1
Leaders and contexts: what previous research tells us about the relationship	p. 3
What all successful leaders do in most contexts	p. 17
Leadership actions and pupil outcomes
Models of leadership and pupil outcomes	p. 33
Similarities and differences between primary and secondary leaders: a badly neglected distinction in leadership research	p. 63
Characteristics and practices of leaders in schools which improved from different starting points	p. 82
Who heads are and what they do to build and sustain success	p. 107
Core values and practices: leadership, learning and improvement	p. 109
Phases of school improvement	p. 134
Layered leadership strategies: how leaders achieve and sustain successful school improvement	p. 152
Future progress and prospects	p. 191
Organizational democracy, trust and the progressive distribution of leadership	p. 193
Successful leadership: contexts, claims and qualities	p. 223
Appendices	p. 244
References	p. 254
Index	p. 267
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