System leadership in practice / Rob Higham, David Hopkins and Peter Matthews.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Higham, Rob.

Contributor:

Hopkins, David, 1949-

Matthews, Peter (Anthony Peter)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Educational leadership.

School management and organization.

Physical Description:

x, 168 p : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Maidenhead, England : McGraw Hill/Open University Press, 2009.

Summary:

System leadership is a new, exciting and growing phenomenon in education. It refers to leadership that goes beyond a single school, where leaders work directly for the success of students in other institutions as well as their own.

In this inspirational book, the authors offer you new perspectives, support and guidance - whether you are a school leader, policy-maker or advisor - and show how working collaboratively can bring about positive change. They encourage you to innovate, develop rigorous partnerships, take risks and deploy resources creatively in order to build sustained improvements in learning and well-being.

This book provides the first in-depth analysis of a term on the lips of many. There is detailed reference to real cases of system leadership, recent legislation and relevant literature. School-led system leadership is seen to offer a means for professionals to take more control of educational renewal.

This book is indispensable reading for school leaders and senior teachers, policy makers and advisors, and anyone involved in education and its leadership.

Contents:

1 Power to the professionals: the emergence of system leadership 1

2 Mapping the system leadership landscape 18

3 Leadership of sustained improvement in challenging contexts 31

4 Leading innovation and improvement partnerships: the case of Leading Edge 51

5 Leadership in the context of Every Child Matters: extended, full service and community schools 72

6 Executive leadership and federations 91

7 Change agents of school transformation: consultant leaders, National Leaders of Education and their schools 107

8 The prospects for system leadership 128.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [151]-158) and index.

ISBN:

9780335236121

033523612X

9780335236114

0335236111

OCLC:

421300689