Middle leadership
The National College is committed to supporting school leaders in achieving improved outcomes, leading to better life chances for all children and young people. Middle leaders have a pivotal role in making this happen through their leadership of personalised learning and teaching.
The role of the middle leader is now recognised as being crucial in securing a focus on the development of learning and teaching throughout the school. We have been studying what it is that effective middle leaders do and how they 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.

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