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Knowledgeable but Not Specialist: Virtual School Heads' Experiences of Supporting Autistic Children in Care
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Pickles, Jennifer; Parsons, Sarah; Kovshoff, Hanna – Oxford Review of Education, 2023
Autistic children comprise a large group of young people who are looked-after by their local authority and for whom educational outcomes are amongst the poorest of all children in care. Virtual School Heads (VSHs) in England have a statutory responsibility to improve the educational outcomes of children in care following the implementation of the…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Students with Disabilities, Virtual Schools, Foreign Countries
Training School Principals as Talent Developers: An International Perspective. International Higher Education
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Hayes, Sonya, Ed.; Abdelrahman, Nahed, Ed.; Irby, Beverly, Ed.; Nafukho, Fredrick. M., Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2022
Training School Principals as Talent Developers: An International Perspective focuses on how to prepare school principals to lead their schools by training and supporting teachers in their craft. The main goal of schools is improving teaching and learning in order to maximize students' potential to be college ready and career ready. Principals…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Role, Training, Talent Development
Distributed Leadership in Action: Leading High-Performing Leadership Teams in English Schools
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Bush, Tony; Glover, Derek – School Leadership & Management, 2012
Heroic models of leadership based on the role of the principal have been supplemented by an emerging recognition of the value of "distributed leadership". The work of effective senior leadership teams (SLTs) is an important manifestation of distributed leadership, but there has been only limited research addressing the relationship…
Descriptors: Leadership Qualities, Leadership, Principals, Administrator Role
Leading and Managing the Competence-Based Curriculum: Conscripts, Volunteers and Champions at Work within the Departmentalised Environment of the Secondary School
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Downey, Christopher; Byrne, Jenny; Souza, Ana – Curriculum Journal, 2013
This article presents a sub-set of findings from a research project describing the experience of four case study schools which have implemented a competence-based curriculum (CBC) for students in their first year of secondary education. Secondary schools are highly departmentalised environments with organisational structures based primarily around…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Competency Based Education, Governance, Foreign Countries
Creating a Culture: How School Leaders Can Optimise Behaviour
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Bennett, Tom – UK Department for Education, 2017
The national picture of school behaviour is complex, but numerous indicators suggest that it can be better in a great number of schools and contexts. Every leader should consciously aspire to the very best behaviour possible in their schools as a matter of priority. There are a number of strategies that schools with outstanding behaviour use…
Descriptors: School Culture, Foreign Countries, Student Behavior, Behavior Modification
The Role of School Managers in Monitoring and Evaluating the Work of a School: Inspectors' Judgments and Schools' Responses.
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Russell, Sheila – School Organisation, 1996
Analyzes inspection results for 22 English and Welsh secondary schools to explore the nature of, and responses to, OFSTED (Offices for Standards in Education) inspectors' recommendations about using internal monitoring and evaluation to improve classroom practice. In their action plans, some schools respond with bureaucratic procedures, while…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Bureaucracy, Cooperation, Educational Assessment