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Long lasting success: creating strategic and sustainable primary schools - summary

Author: Thomas, Alan
Subject: Strategic planning
Audience: Headteachers, Middle leaders and aspiring headteachers
Date of publication: June 2007   |   File format and size: PDF, 449 Kb

Research associate Alan Thomas investigates how successful primary schools are making their success last. It relates case studies from a sample of 14 serving headteachers and explores the role of effective leadership in sustaining success.

The author discusses the importance of:

  • effectivestrategic leadership
  • achieving good results in the short-term and show upward trends over time
  • a broad, enriched and differentiated curriculum which encourages deep and lifelong learning, valuing thinking and understanding
  • sustained contribution of staff in raising standards and nurture their well-being and professional development.

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