Thinking
The latest thinking from our team of experts and our community of frontline educators.
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Tackling culture and resources as a new head
Principal Jenny Nimmo discusses how addressing the persistent problems in her school transformed Potterspury Lodge into one of the highest performing special schools in the South East of England.
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The persistent problems of school leadership
Jen Barker and Tom Rees discuss the use of ‘persistent problems’ as the purpose for school leaders’ work.
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So you want to be a CEO? The journey from headship to system leadership
This is an exclusive extract from the new book ‘Leading Academy Trusts: Why some fail, but most don’t’ by Sir David Carter with Laura McInerney. This extract is from Chapter 2, which charts the evolving landscape of school and system leadership and explores what this means for aspiring multi-academy trust CEOs.
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Assessing students’ needs for their return to school
Ambition's Harry Fletcher-Wood shares his insights from conversations with two headteachers about understanding the needs of pupils when they return to school.
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Leading in the face of disadvantage: If not us, then who?
Future Leader alumni Tuesday Humby walks us through her approach to school improvement – from raising pupil aspirations to helping her team to keep getting better.