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Face-to-face leadership support for primary headteachers: lessons from the Greater Manchester Challenge - summary

Author: Michael Wilson
Subject: School improvement
Audience: Headteachers, Middle leaders and aspiring headteachers
Date of publication: July 2011   |   File format and size: PDF, 202 Kb

The white paper, The Importance of Teaching (Department for Education (DfE), 2010), makes clear that school-to-school support is to be a central strategy in raising standards and improving outcomes for all children. The expansion in the number of national leaders of education (NLEs) and local leaders of education (LLEs), the creation of teaching schools with roles that include school-to-school support, and the deployment of leading teachers, including specialist leaders of education, are key development strands within this vision.

This research project reflects the views of eight headteachers, in receipt of external support, working in primary schools. The focus of the study was on the types or methods of leadership support that these headteachers found most helpful in:

  • assisting the school in developing an agenda for change and identifying and resolving its own problems
  • supporting the school in developing internal leadership capacity to lead and manage change in order to enhance the achievement of all pupils

A full version of this report is also available