Leading schools in challenging circumstances : strategies for success / Philip Smith and Les Bell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smith, Philip, 1971- author.

Contributor:

Bell, Les, 1942- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Educational leadership--Great Britain.

Educational leadership.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (185 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The leadership of schools can make a significant difference to enhancing the life chances of students in schools and enabling them to succeed. This book examines leadership within schools, focusing on securing success within a challenging social and political environment. It explores the approaches to leadership adopted by four successful secondary school headteachers in a local authority situated in an area of high social deprivation and identifies the impact the headteachers of these schools have on staff, students and community. It analyses the key leadership strategies of these successful school leaders, strategies that can be deployed in all schools, and explores the links between leadership theories and leadership actions. The book goes on to examine how these strategies were actually implemented in a failing school in challenging circumstances and shows how other schools might benefit from such strategies and the insights on which they are based

Contents:

Schools in challenging circumstances

School leadership: concepts and realities

Using transactional leadership in schools

Using transformational leadership in schools

Deploying transformational leadership: strategies for challenging circumstances

Implementing transformational leadership in a challenging school: a case study

Successful leadership in challenging circumstances: from theory to implementation

Conclusion: misquoting the Beatles.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781472593269

147259326X

9781441145468

144114546X

9781441156822

1441156828

OCLC:

895073015