A shared leadership approach

Cultivating a shared leadership approach Leadership in UK schools has evolved greatly in recent decades, with senior and middle leaders now both playing a shared leadership role in overseeing day-to-day performance and developing whole school policy and vision. As traditional, top-down – in which head teachers serve as monolithic entities making nearly all decisions and instructing other staff […]

Middle Leaders provide secret to school performance

Middle Leaders provide secret to school performance The work of middle leaders in schools has become increasingly important to school performance in recent decades, with education sector experts and researchers alike highlighting the benefits of an effective middle leadership team. Whilst strong overall performance management remains fundamental to staff improvement and motivation – with one study […]

Ofsted to offer secondment roles for school middle leaders

Ofsted to offer secondment roles for school middle leaders School leaders will be given the opportunity to spend a year in secondment working for Ofsted as part of a new programme announced by the inspectorate this month. Speaking in Birmingham, Chief Inspector Amanda Spielman unveiled the plans to school and college leaders at the Association […]