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`The book has a wide appeal to existing heads, aspiring heads, lecturers and writers about headship. The contributors to this book have lifted the curtain on the realities of headships and, in the process, have added to our understanding of what school leadership is all about these days' - Managing Schools Today Practitioners and trainers understand how vitally important school leadership is to the practice of headship. Living Headship presents the experiences of successful heads working in primary and secondary schools. We hear in their accounts the authentic voices of heads determined to ensure that their leadership enhances the performance of their schools. Some have been in post for many years, and
Leading the Creative School
Leading the Creative School
In September 1993 I became a headteacher; in September 1998 I took up a second headship. This chapter is my view of my first headship as seen from the threshold of my second. Moving on always provides an opportunity for shaping and ‘closing’ an episode – a satisfying activity from a psychological, emotional and intellectual point of view, but with the obvious inherent temptations to transform actual experience, in all its messiness and uncontrollability, into tidy cause, effect and, by extension, achievement. In making sense of, and appraising, this period in my career, therefore, I am shaping it into a graspable section of my ‘life’. That is the central theme of this chapter – the interaction of my ...
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