Tools:
Middle leadership
Middle leaders have a pivotal role in school improvement through their leadership of personalised learning and teaching, a role now recognised as being crucial to the development of learning and teaching throughout the school. In these resources we look at what effective middle leaders do and how their skills can be developed.
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What is middle leadership?
Who middle leaders are and what they do.
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Effective middle leadership
Strategies to drive school improvement.
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Developing middle leadership
Suggestions for structured and planned support looking at the role of the headteacher, coaching and distributed leadership.
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Middle leadership in primary schools
Findings from a project about what primary middle leaders do and how they do it. Video clips of practice are included.
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Middle leadership in secondary schools facing challenging circumstances
Findings from a project looking at the characteristics of effective middle leadership in secondary schools facing challenging circumstances and the systems and structures that support them.
Publications
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Primary middle leaders - effective practice in action
This resource uses learning-centred leadership behaviours to explore the effectiveness of middle leaders in primary schools -
Leader stories: Sarah Oliver
Transcript of an interview about middle leadership with Sarah Oliver, deputy head at Cuckoo Hall Primary School in Edmonton, north London -
Network leadership in action: getting started with networked collaborative enquiry
This publication sets out the context and different approaches to carrying out networked collaborative enquiry (NCE). -
Seizing Success 2010 - All teachers are leaders
This workshop describes and evaluates the cluster-based experience of developing and delivering the new Middle Leadership Programme in Southend. It is led by some of the school teachers who have helped to create and facilitate the programme locally and provides some practical tips for establishing a programme in your area. -
The role and purpose of middle leaders in schools - summary
Summary report from a review of research on the role of middle leaders
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