Provides a highly practical, evidence-informed introduction to management and middle leadership issues, based on research of a range of posts in primary and secondary contexts. Written to support practitioners, this edition reflects the research in educational management, as well as developments in workforce reform.
Introduces the principles and philosophies of marketing for schools, and the concepts of supply and demand, segmentation and buying behaviour. The author goes on to cover advanced approaches, marketing research methods particularly suitable for schools, and strategic analysis and planning.
Puffed Out: The Three Little Pigs' Guide to a Growth Mindset by Will Hussey and Barry Hymer is a comprehensive catalyst for cultivating a growth mindset.
A truly transformational guide for developing wellbeing resilience and self-leadership in young people, because Neil and Jane Hawkes passionately believe that the greatest resource that humanity has is its children: our future prosperity as a species rests with them.
In recent years, there has been an increased interest in and demand for school evaluation. Evaluation is often linked to issues of accountability, performance assessment, regulation and inspection. This book explores and develops the latest thinking surrounding external and self-evaluation in schools.
This is a book about collaboration by education professionals on a global scale by first establishing the need for it then outlining how that collaboration can be created.
Illustrates in detail how school leaders can successfully embed the Learning Power Approach (LPA) in their school's culture and empower teachers to deliver its benefits to their students.
This book gives a broad, easy-to-read overview of the cultural, social and political ideas that have shaped our education system and how we think about the concept of Education. This new edition has been updated with new chapters, a new case study feature and coverage of hot topics trending today.
The nuanced interconnections of poverty and educational attainment across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are explored in this unique analysis. Experts investigate how different educational structures and policies affect teachers' engagement with marginalised groups and consider how inequalities might be reduced.
Comprehensive guidance to support those involved in primary education in developing the curriculum to meet the requirements of the new Ofsted (2019) framework.
Comprehensive guidance to support those involved in secondary education in developing the curriculum to meet the requirements of the new Ofsted (2019) framework.
With an astute examination of practice in schools, Claire Hill and Kat Howard take a thoughtful and strategic view of how to ensure a sense of connection and cohesion within schools, to ensure that all feel part of the collective curricular journey towards a gold standard.
To help teacher educators undertake self-study, this book offers a range of research methodologies, which show what issues experienced teacher educators have chosen to study, how they would research, and what the outcomes were.
This book will strengthen your research practice and help build a culture of research across your school. Whether you are a class teacher or school leader, you will be guided to use the power of research to strengthen practice in yourself and others.
This book combines practice, theory and research and draws on the authors' international experience to provide an invaluable resource for reflection and change for everyone who contributes to and studies leadership.
This book combines practical knowledge and understanding of leadership roles in education with robust theories underpinning leadership and management to offer a model of excellence for those who lead, or aspire to lead, in education.
Data in education is increasingly important but, despite their best efforts, teachers and educators frequently struggle to understand the core principles of data use and interpretation. This book will help readers understand the use of statistics in education, and show them how to use data effectively in classrooms and schools.
This book highlights the personal and relational aspects of colleague support, and uses the voices of teachers and case studies to illustrate the moral, structural, and professional dimensions.
A textbook that promotes thoughtful engagement with key issues and theories that inform an understanding of childhood development. It intends to turn readers away from our collective tendency to simplify the experiences of young children and replace this with an understanding of the social dynamic that constitutes childhood.
This text highlights issues which underpin the professional capabilities of existing and aspiring subject leaders. The content is designed to build on the skills, knowledge, understanding and attributes which serving Heads of Department and subject co-ordinators already possess.
This book looks at state involvement in education and education policy. It explains the role of education policy in the context of the general direction of government policy, politics and the economy.
This book makes a defence of compassion as an essential and significant quality that should be at the heart of the education of young people. Understanding and justifying compassion as a virtue, this book argues that compassion is a virtue central to all human relationships from the familial, to the communal and to the global.
Written by leading authors in the field, this book in a new series offers critical and reflective treatment of a core early years topic which is covered by every early childhood course.
This book examines the need for educational establishments to review their position in the local community and to develop strategies to deal with the management of their image.
Presents arguments about the nature of expert school leadership, paralleling developments from the early 1980s, when the emphasis was on identifying the behaviours of effective principals, to the early 1990s, when the focus had shifted to
Leadership and strategic management are both issues of central importance in raising achievement in schools and colleges and thus are at the heart of the educational debate today.
This book is concerned with such major issues as: the nature of strategic management in education; the importance of vision, and mission; styles of leadership; models of educational management; and the purposes of strategic management, which here are equated with the effectiveness and improvement of the institution.
It will be invaluable for students of educational management, such as those following masters degrees. It is also directly relevant to teachers and lecturers and schools of all phases and in further education colleges
This text is designed to assist secondary schools to identify strengths, weaknesses and priorities for action, and provide the photocopiable proformas which can be used in an annual, rolling audit which should lead to the production of effective development plans.
This volume provides a wide range of professional development activities to support schools in their own improvement journeys. It aims to provide new opportunities for teachers and management to reflect critically on, and improve, teacher and pupil autonomy.