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Greenhouse schools: lessons from schools that grow their own leaders

Author: Barnes, Iain and Ireson, Jill
Subject: Identifying and developing talent
Audience: Headteachers, Stakeholders and partners
Date of publication: June 2008   |   File format and size: PDF, 270 Kb

This report draws on the outcomes of a study investigating how school leaders actively encourage and secure future leadership capacity by identifying, nurturing and developing leadership potential in their schools.

The study involved case studies carried out by a group of four NCSL research associates and the findings from a seminar held in London in June 2006.

This report is aimed at providing school leaders with examples of practical strategies used by a selection of schools from across phases that have made growing tomorrow's leaders an integral and essential part of what they do.

It explores and shares how they are beginning to put in place systematic succession planning programmes to serve the needs of both their schools and the system and that will enable school leaders to:

  • assess their own practices
  • consider how the lessons uncovered in this report might influence their development

Part of a series of booklets to help support succession planning.

A full version of this report is also available.