Every Child Matters: models of leadership

Publications

• Co-location, continuity and community: vignettes
  Detailed accounts of the context and work of the sites that contributed to the National College's research into the leadership, activity and outcomes
• Critique of schools and schooling
  Presents new approaches to school and community development
• Reaching out to the 'hard to hear'
  Sets out a strategy for achieving higher equity among stakeholders in order to change the future for young people
• Introduction to social network analysis
  Introduces the relevance of social networks for multi-agency working

Case studies

• Community comes first
  Case study examining how St John Vianney Roman Catholic Primary School manages a children's centre, making it accessible and inclusive to a deprived community
• From the cradle to the school gates
  Case study about Walton Lane Nursery and Children's Centre which operates on two sites and uses its own not-for-profit company to give local families better access to the support they and their children need
• Sharing a building builds a sense of cross-phase community
  Case study about Saltburn Primary School and Huntcliff Secondary Schools who are exploring the advantages of sharing a single, new purpose built school
• Putting pupils first; resource sharing for the common good
  Case study about Ladybridge High School and Rumworth Special School capitalising on the unforeseen advantages of co-location and accepting a moral responsibility for each other's pupils
• Creating a single school community
  Case study examining how Hungerford Primary School and Bridge Special School have used a chance co-location to maximise opportunities for children

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Interactive resources

• Leadership of Every Child Matters
  Interview between Maggie Farrar, strategic director at the National College, and John West-Burnham, professor of educational leadership, about the complexities and challenges of the leadership of Every Child Matters (ECM)
• Social capital
  Interview between Maggie Farrar, strategic director at the National College, and John West-Burnham, professor of educational leadership, about the complexities and challenges of the leadership of Every Child Matters (ECM)
• Moral purpose of education
  Interview between Maggie Farrar, strategic director at the National College, and John West-Burnham, professor of educational leadership, about the complexities and challenges of the leadership of Every Child Matters (ECM)
• Models of leadership to support 21st century schools: hard federations in primary schools
  An online seminar in which an executive headteacher and head of teaching and learning share their experiences of a hard federation of primary schools
• Models of leadership to support 21st century schools: team leadership
  An online seminar in which a headteacher shares her experiences of a field trial for next practice in system leadership

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Articles

• Implications for leadership and governance
  National College resources that examine the implications for the leadership and governance of schools brought about by the government's Every Child Matters (ECM) initiative.
• Context and culture
  National College resources that explore the partnership working needed to implement the Every Child Matters (ECM) programme, as well as the cultural and contextual implications of these developments.
• Managing change
  National College resources that assess the need to manage change and develop new leadership models in the context of the government's Every Child Matters (ECM) programme.