Thinking
The latest thinking from our team of experts and our community of frontline educators.
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Generic and domain-specific perspectives of school leadership
In the latest in the leadership blog series, Jennifer Barker and Tom Rees explore generic approaches to leadership development, which they argue have become the orthodox way of describing and developing school leaders in recent years, and compare these to more domain-specific approaches.
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Ten things we learned from Early Career Teachers
Schools share ten things they’ve learnt from our Early Career Teachers programme, from instructional coaching to the benefits of bite-sized materials.
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Complexity, purpose and problems in school leadership
In this blog, Jennifer Barker and Tom Rees explore the complexity, purpose and problems of school leaders’ work.
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What is school leadership?
In the first blog of a series which puts the concept of school leadership under the spotlight, Jennifer Barker and Tom Rees explore what school leadership is, and what the literature tells us.
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The leadership NPQs: Six reasons to get excited
At Ambition Institute, we are really enthusiastic about the reforms to the national professional qualifications. If you’re interested in changes to the leadership NPQs, here is all the information you’ll need to get up to speed.