Leading Schools in Challenging Circumstances: Strategies for Success

Leading Schools in Challenging Circumstances: Strategies for Success
ISBN-10
1441156828
ISBN-13
9781441156822
Category
Education
Pages
184
Language
English
Published
2014-01-16
Publisher
A&C Black
Authors
Philip Smith, Les Bell

Description

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 political environment. It explores the approaches to leadership adopted by four successful secondary school headteachers in a local authority situated in an area of high social deprivation and identifies the impact the headteachers of these schools have on staff, students and community. It analyses the key leadership strategies of these successful school leaders, strategies that can be deployed in all schools, and explores the links between leadership theories and leadership actions. The book goes on to examine how these strategies were actually implemented in a failing school in challenging circumstances and shows how other schools might benefit from such strategies and the insights on which they are based.

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