A-Z list of publications – by title

1

• 100,000 heads are better than one

A

• A better way?
• A journey into the unknown
• A life in the day of a headteacher
• A model of school leadership in challenging urban environments
• Adding value to school leadership and management

B

• Black and minority ethnic leaders
• Building Bridges: a study of independent-state school partnerships
• Bursar Development Programme impact and evaluation reports

C

• Can federations help stars
• Can private companies successfully turn around a failing school
• Career moves
• Challenge plus: the experience of black and minority ethnic school leaders
• Changing times, changing roles
• Children’s centres: the new frontier for the welfare state and the education system?
• Children’s voices, children’s rights: what children with special needs have to say about their variously inclusive schools
• Children’s voices: pupil leadership in primary schools
• Classrooms in the community
• Collaborative leadership in extended schools: leading in a multi-agency environment
• Community conversation
• Community leadership in networks
• Comparing the experiences of black and minority ethnic leaders in English schools and cross-boundary leaders in South Africa
• Corporate plan – NCSL
• Critical incidents

D

• Deal or no big deal
• Delta 6
• Deputy and assistant headship: building leadership potential
• Developing creativity in the primary school
• Developing inclusive schools: implications for leadership
• Developing the person in the professional
• Different approaches to sharing school leadership
• Distributed Leadership – literature review
• Distributed leadership
• Does size matter? Distributed leadership in small secondary schools
• Does the net work?
• Driving leadership – a distributed perspective
• Driving leadership – sustainable leadership
• Driving leadership – teacher research
• Driving leadership – what we know about successful school leadership

E

• E-learning for leadership: emerging indicators of effective practice
• ECM Premium Project
• ECM premium project case studies
• ECM premium project toolkit
• ECM: leading challenge workshops
• ECM: why it matters to leaders
• Effective leadership in multi-ethnic schools
• Effective leadership in schools facing challenging circumstances
• Emerging patterns of school leadership
• Enchanted headteachers: sustainability in primary school headship
• Evaluation of the Future Leaders Pilot Programme
• Every Child Matters (ECM) getting closer
• Every Child Matters. Taking the wider view: living leadership – making a difference (2008) DVD
• Every Child Matters: how school leaders in extended schools respond to local needs
• Expanding leadership horizons
• Exploring models of leadership toolkit
• Exploring the links between performance management and improved standards

F

• Faith, hope and charity: setting out to create a new culture in merging schools
• Far from the madding crowd?
• FutureSight
• Futures thinking and curriculum

G

• Gender and headship in the 21st century
• Getting our heads together
• Getting out through the middle
• Going global
• Greenhouse schools
• Growing tomorrow’s school leaders: the challenge
• Growing your own leaders: the impact of professional development on school improvement

H

• Hard federations of small primary schools
• Healthy body: healthy mind: how headteachers are managing their schools to help improve children’s health
• Heart of the matter
• Hidden gold
• How are English secondary schools interpreting their freedom to be different

I

• ICT’s about learning: school leadership and the effective integration of information and communications technology
• ILERN
• Improvement through evaluation
• Improving schools facing challenging circumstances: perspectives from leading thinkers
• In search of the X factor
• Inclusive leadership: leadership for inclusion
• Indicators of a school’s contribution to well-being
• Internships: leadership learning through placements
• Issues for early headship: problems and support strategies
• Issues of ICT, school reform and learning-centred school design
• It’s all in the mix
• It’s good to talk

K

• Keep your head
• Know where you are going

L

• Leadership and faith: working with and learning from school leaders
• Leadership and inclusion: a special school perspective
• Leadership and management in special schools
• Leadership development and personal effectiveness
• Leadership development: evidence and beliefs
• Leadership for personalising learning
• Leadership for public value: achieving valuable outcomes for children, families and communities
• Leadership in large primary schools
• Leadership on the frontline: thriving and surviving in challenging circumstances
• Leadership succession: an overview
• Leadership, literacy and the creative arts
• Leading Islamic schools in the UK: a challenge for us all
• Leading a research engaged school
• Leading beyond the school
• Leading coaching in schools
• Leading curriculum innovation
• Leading first age learning
• Leading from the classroom: the impact of the assistant headteacher in primary schools
• Leading learning: instructional leadership in infant school
• Leading personalised learning in schools: helping individuals grow
• Leading sustainable school building projects
• Leading sustainable schools
• Leading to success: judging success in primary schools in challenging contexts
• Leading under pressure: leadership for social inclusion
• Learning from the middle
• Learning from the middle
• Learning to lead
• Learning-centred leadership 1
• Learning-centred leadership 2
• Lessons from the extended school
• Lifting the lid on the creative curriculum
• Long lasting success: creating strategic and sustainable primary schools

M

• Made in China
• Making a difference
• Making a difference – middle leadership in secondary school facing challenging circumstances
• Making the difference – successful leadership in challenging contexts
• Meeting the challenge: growing tomorrow’s school leaders
• Mentoring and coaching for new leaders: a review of the literature
• Mission possible
• More than a feeling
• Mutual support, mutual challenge

N

• Narrowing the gap: reducing within-school variation in pupil outcomes
• Networked Learning Communities publications catalogue
• Networked leadership in action: getting started with networked school self-evaluation
• New heads handbook
• New models of headship – Co-headship
• New models of headship – federations
• New models of headship – primary executive heads
• New models of headship – secondary or special school executive heads
• New models of headship – varieties of shared headship: a preliminary exploration
• No key issues: only as good as your last Ofsted?
• No regrets? Starting secondary headship

O

• One step ahead of the game: leading change in ICT in support of pupils learning
• One-to-one leadership: coaching in schools
• Only connect: using a critical incident tool to develop multi-agency collaboration in two children’s centres
• Open windows: becoming an e-learning school
• Opening doors, opening minds

P

• Parents matter How can leaders involve parents in the self-evaluation process and further development of children’s centre and extended school services?
• Passion and intuition: the impact of life history on leadership
• Perceptions of the impact of leadership training on newly appointed female principals in England and Hong Kong
• Personalised learning in action
• Personalised learning in action – And the pupil said
• Personalised learning in action – Are you learnin’ us today Miss?
• Personalised learning in action – Does it help to know?
• Personalised learning in action – Hey, what about me?
• Personalised learning in action – Lessons in partnership
• Personalised learning in action – Mentoring: from data to people
• Personalised learning in action – Personalising the curriculum
• Personalised learning in action – Primary executive heads
• Personalised learning in action – Shape shifters
• Picturing preferred futures: using case studies to investigate solution-focused approaches to school
• Primary middle leaders
• Priorities, strategies and challenges: proactive leadership in multi-ethnic schools
• Prospectus 2008
• Pulling together

R

• Raising the bar
• Re-thinking middle leadership in secondary schools
• Reaching out, reaching in
• Realising leadership: children’s centre leaders in action
• Reservoirs of hope: spirtual and moral leadership in headteachers
• Review of the landscape: leadership and leadership development 2008
• Ringing the changes: the middle leaders’ role in leading change
• Rising stars and sitting tenants

S

• School Improvement Planning Framework
• School business managers
• School leaders leading the system
• School leadership in England
• School leadership: concepts and evidence
• Schools leading schools the power and potential of National Leaders of Education
• Schools learning from their best – within-school variation project
• Search for the leader inside yourself
• Second headship
• Self-evaluation a guide for school leaders
• Seven strong claims about successful school leadership
• Shaping up to the future: a guide to roles, structure and career development in secondary schools
• Should I stay or should I go?
• Special leadership – what are the implications for the leadership of special schools of potential changes to the special school system?
• Stepping up, stepping out: Learning about leadership
• Student leadership and school improvement: how can school leaders involve students in the school improvement process through developing students as researchers?
• Student leadership: investing in tomorrow’s leaders for schools and communities
• Success and sustainability: developing the strategically-focused school
• Successful leadership for promoting the achievement of white working class pupils – full report
• Successful leadership for promoting the achievement of white working class pupils – literature review
• Successful leadership for promoting the achievement of white working class pupils – summary
• Successful leadership for promoting the achievement of white working class pupils. Vignettes: twelve accounts of school life
• Successful leadership of schools in urban and challenging contexts
• System leadership – lessons from the literature
• System leadership in action

T

• Talent spotting: recognising and developing leadership potential
• Teacher leaders and reflective practioners: building the capacity of a school to improve by promoting research and reflection
• Teacher leadership: principles and practice
• Teachers into leaders: networking and leadership development Growing leaders of the future is becoming an accepted central responsibility of leaders of the present
• Team talk: sharing leadership in primary schools
• The challenge and opportunities of leading and managing an all-age school
• The first 100 days: an enquiry into the first 100 days of headship in a failing school
• The future of leadership
• The intelligent gaze: leadership, lead learners and the concept of the individual growth
• The role and purpose of middle leaders in schools
• The school as a professional learning community
• The strength of weak school ties
• Thinking ahead
• Thinking headteachers thinking schools
• Threads, knots and nets
• Tidying the cupboard? The role of subject leaders in primary schools
• Time for coaching
• Too busy to learn? An introduction to collaborative leadership learning
• Trust in collaborative working: the importance of trust for leaders of school based partnerships
• Turning heads
• Two heads better than one? Building a cross-phase school of the future

U

• Under the microscope
• United we stand
• Urban leadership: a toolkit for governors

V

• Valuing our future: sustainability toolkit
• Virtual leadership: a small school reality?

W

• Were you prepared: findings from a national survey of headteachers
• What leaders read 1: key texts from the business world
• What leaders read 2: key texts from education and beyond
• What we are learning about: leadership of Every Child Matters
• What we know about school leadership
• What’s good about leading schools in challenging circumstances
• When reservoirs run dry: why some headteachers leave headship early
• Winning hearts and minds: leadership and performance management
• Working smarter together: the development of a enquiry team across twelve schools
• Working together: helping community leadership work in practice