Models of leadership case studies
These pages contain case studies of schools that are implementing new models of leadership.
A-Z list
A list of the case studies categorised by leadership model is also available.
- 3Es Coalition: how system leadership has improved attainment
- Accipio Virtual School: finding a leadership model for a virtual school
- Alcester: helping pupils make the transition from primary to secondary school
- Aldington Federation: using the federation process to improve standards
- Andover: investigating collaboration between schools
- Asterdale Primary School: building parental engagement and easing transition
- Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council: reinventing leadership through advanced learning centres
- Bellfield March School: the role of school business manager in a complex special school
- Bellthorpe Federation: separating teaching and learning from administration
- Bessemer Collegiate Academy: an urban federation:how federating has improved outcomes for the partner schools in a disadvantaged multicultural area
- Biddenham Queens Park: how system leadership is bringing coherence to provision in Bedfordshire
- Brassington Primary School: part-time leadership in a rural primary school
- Bridge Learning Campus: embedding all-through education across a learning campus
- Burnley Campus: Burnley schools collaborate to commission extended services
- Canterbury Campus: building a federation with an entrepreneurial culture
- Capital Academy: a new inner-city school: creating a structure where responsibilities are distributed effectively amongst teaching and non-teaching professionals
- Carromere Community College: cross-phase collaboration: how a rural college streamlined its leadership structure
- Carromere Community College: collaboration and accelerated learning (follow up)
- Cawood Manor: an all-through school: shared concern for education in this ex-mining community meant three heads jumped at the chance of amalgamation
- Central Leeds Learning Federation: using system leadership to improve attainment in two secondary schools
- Central Leeds Learning Federation: raising attainment in low-achieving schools (follow up)
- Chalkston Education Partnership: system leadership in action: how the development of two new all-through schools required an innovative approach to leadership and collaboration
- Chesil Cove Federation: planning for changes in school leadership
- Chichester Community Alliance: using system leadership to integrate children’s services
- Chulmleigh Community School Federation: running a federation with a small board of governors
- Country Federation: the benefits of federation for two small, rural primary schools
- Coverwood Village College: exploring trust status: how plans to increase capacity have inspired the governing body to consult on trust status.capacity
- Darlington Education Village: how the federation provides inclusive 2-19 education
- Darlington Education Village: raising standards through developing leadership capacity (follow up)
- David Sheppard Community Academy: how developing structures from scratch have allowed for radical thinking on timing, delivery and organisation of the education service
- David Sheppard Academy: improving students’ life chances and supporting the community (follow up)
- Dee Partnership: an informal collaboration of five schools with other service providers
- Dover Federation for the Arts: achieving rapid transformation through hard federation
- The Durham Federation: two small rural secondary schools serving ex-mining villages
- Exmoor Coast Federation: collaboration across small rural first and middle schools
- Extended Services in North Hartlepool (ESINH): collaborating to tackle barriers to educational achievement
- Foxdale School: amalgamation of two schools facing challenging circumstances to create an all-through solution
- Foxdale School: developments since the amalgamation of primary and secondary phases (follow up)
- Furness 14-19 Partnership: using system leadership to revitalise 14-19 provision
- Glaston -‘The campus’: pursuing trust school status
- Global Academy: combining business and education expertise
- Guildford Grove Primary School: working together for community cohesion
- Guru Nanak School: retaining a range of future leadership options
- Hadley Learning Community: a hybrid model of a federation, collaboration and partnership
- Hailsham Partnership: designing whole-town, full service provision for a range of services including education
- Hampstead Federation of Academies: using a federation to improve attainment
- Harlington Area Schools Trust: delivering coherent education
- Harris Federation: using system leadership to raise attainment in academies
- Haven: how the Haven partnership is making a coherent and enhanced post-16 offer to students in Essex
- Hayesbrook School: driving school improvement through co-headship
- Hungerford Primary School and Bridge Special School: creating a single school community
- Hurworth School: developing leadership capacity throughout a school
- Ingleside Collaboration: school partnerships in a rural area
- Ingleton Primary School: using co-headship to retain and develop leadership talent
- Knowsley: how Knowsley Local Authority is exploring governance models for its secondary provision
- Ladybridge High School and Rumworth Special School: resource sharing for the common good
- Lavington Park Federation: using federation to reinvigorate two village primary schools
- Longwood Grange High: an extended school
- Loughborough Primary School: working with the under fives helps build parental engagement
- Merton Council: centrally-driven approach to commissioning local services
- Middleton and Peasenhall primary schools: protecting the future of small rural primary schools
- Milburn School: new approaches to teaching and learning, with external partners adding value
- Milburn High School: using trust status to encourage innovation (follow up)
- Minton Primary School: co-headship in a small rural primary
- Mitchell School: how distributed leadership is making improvements to this federation
- Monteney Foxhill Federation: moving from soft federation to hard federation
- Our Lady's and English Martyrs' Federation: using federation as a stepping stone
- Quantock Federation: addressing transitional issues across a federation
- Parkside Academy: raising standards under a media spotlight
- Parkside Federation: raising expectations and attainment in two secondary schools (follow up)
- Remaking Learning: authority-wide programme for Barnsley rationalising primary and secondary provision
- Rosemoor School: establishment of an all-through school to address the inclusion agenda and the poor reputation of the preceding secondary
- Rosemoor Federation: the role of the director of business strategy
- Rugeley Foundation for Learning: using soft federation as a stepping stone towards hard federation
- Saltburn Primary School and Huntcliff Secondary School: sharing a building builds a sense of cross-phase community
- Samworth Academy: church school partnerships and extended services support community cohesion
- Sandwell Academy: collaboration across two academies to improve outcomes for students
- Sandbury College: federation in the face of competition
- Serlby Park Learning Community: remodelling leadership for an all-through school
- Shaw and Benyon primary schools: formalising a collaboration
- Short Heath Federation: creating a family of schools to serve the local communitiy
- Southernway Federation: a team leadership approach in a hard federation
- Stevenage 14-19 Partnership: whole-town collaborative exploring trust status
- St John Vianney Roman Catholic Primary School: community comes first
- St Matthew Academy: tackling falling pupil rolls and low attainment
- Titan Partnership: providing mutual support across a large partnership of schools
- West Exmoor Federation: protecting the viability of rural primary schools
- Weston Federation: joining forces to raise aspirations and improve post-16 provisions
- Weston Academy: improving outcomes at two schools in challenging circumstances (follow up)
- West Wiltshire Federation: setting up a company to enhance 14-19 offering
- Westwood-Cheadle Federation: raising a school out of special measures
- Wexford School: achieving success through a new leadership structure
- Wide Valley: an informal collaboration between two voluntary aided primary schools
- Wigmore School: delivering all-through education through a hard federation
- Wilkie College: using trust status to strengthen local provision
- Willingdon Community School: helping pupils make the transition from primary to secondary school
- Winsford Education Partnership: exploring trust status to develop whole-town 0-19 provision in rural Cheshire
- Wood View Learning Community: supporting lifelong learning and partnerships
- Yewlands Family: how seven schools are developing leadership and governance
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