Latest publications

This page lists the latest publications available on the NCSL website.

• School leadership in England: contemporary challenges, innovative responses and future trends
  This is an abbreviated version of the recent review of school leadership in England for the OECD. The report sets out the broad forces impacting on school leaders over the past twenty years, the specific challenges these created and the ways in which school leaders and the education system more generally have responded.
• Exploring models of leadership toolkit
  This is a practical toolkit that school and multi-agency leaders can use to explore and visualise alternative models of leadership and governance that will fit their context and purpose.
• Making a difference
  This publication summarises the evidence of the impact that our on-going work with school and children’s centre leaders is achieving. It demonstrates the difference that great school leadership can make and the role NCSL is playing in supporting that.
• School Improvement Planning Framework
  A suite of tools and techniques designed to help schools take their planning, strategic thinking and implementation to the next level. For more information and to order your copy, go to www.tda.gov.uk/schoolimprovement.
• Leading sustainable school building projects
  This study aims to identify and help develop the skills and knowledge that school leaders need to lead sustainable building projects.
• Successful leadership for promoting the achievement of white working class pupils
  This research identified 12 schools that have managed to buck the national trend in the attainment levels of their white, working-class students, and from this it delivers a blueprint for school leadership.
• Research Associate Reports Winter 2008
  Six new Research Associate reports, covering a range of education topics.
• Leadership for public value: achieving valuable outcomesfor children, families and communities
  This report shows how a set of schools and centres are engaging with their local communities to explore new ways of working, with the aim of doing a better job both for the young people and families they serve directly and  for the communities they work with and within.
• Trust in collaborative working: the importance of trust for leaders of school based partnerships
  This report describes the findings from original research undertaken into the importance of trust as a driver of school-based collaborations.
• Leadership for personalising learning
  This study brings together the key research and thinking into how school leaders can embed personalisation and high quality learning within every aspect of their school.
• Review of the landscape: leadership and leadership development 2008
  This report brings together key insights and findings on effective school leadership and leadeship development, and highlights major themes and message for the future.
• ECM Premium Project: school leadership, Every Child Matters and school standards
  The specific aims of the project were to identify the evidence base for a link between ECM and improvements in school standards (commonly known as ‘the ECM Premium‘) and to identify the nature and quality of leadership that underpinned it. The project has also produced case studies and a toolkit.
• Emerging patterns of school leadership: current practice and future directions
  This study set out to map and explore emerging practice and to highlight possible future directions in school leadership, management and governance
• Research Associate reports Summer 2008
  Eight new practitioner research reports are available covering a range of school leadership topics.