The Leadership Network produces publications and resources that provide development and support for school leaders at all levels. The following publications include toolkits, case studies, think pieces, DVDs and much more to enable you to share in the latest thinking and practice of school leaders nationwide.
These publications are available to download and printed copies are available to Network members where stated.
NCSL’s Leadership Network ’09 – Ldr supplement, March 2009
This is our special Ldr supplement, which has been distributed to all UK schools. It provides an informative insight into our work over the last year, including curriculum reforms, regional initiatives, partnership working, Every Child Matters (ECM) and an interview with a headteacher from Lincolnshire sharing his experiences of Leadership Network membership.
Responding to local challenges
This booklet presents material drawn from Leadership Network regional initiatives in 2007-08. It provides an insight into examples of local activities and reflections on practice and leadership learning as a prompt to your own thinking and planning.
Expanding leadership horizons: leaders learning from practice
This publication presents materials drawn from Leadership Network regional initiatives in 2006-07. It provides project summaries, examples and lessons from practice, and insight into the impact achieved to prompt you to consider your next steps to action in your own situation.
Internships: leadership learning through placements
This publication presents a digest of the experiences and perspectives of those involved in the Leadership Network internship programmes in 2006-07, and the implications for practice. Given current issues of succession planning and leadership learning, its aim is to help you consider the benefits of this approach and to implement your own programme. To order a printed copy please email [email protected].
Two publications, Leading curriculum innovation and Leading curriculum innovation case studies from practice (2007). The resources in this publication provide a toolkit of four booklets designed to enable you to explore emerging ideas about leading curriculum innovation in the 21st century. These include a summary of research findings, a collection of short think pieces, snapshots of practice and a discussion tool. A collection of 20 case studies provides practical examples of leading curriculum.
Stepping up, stepping out: learning about leadership
The resources in this publication provide a toolkit of four booklets and an accompanying DVD designed to enable you to engage with perspectives from research, policy and practice in order to explore emerging ideas about the practicalities of school leadership in the 21st century. The DVD entitled ‘Growing leadership’ contains three short films, each outlining a different approach to growing leadership drawn from the experiences of primary, secondary and special schools. To order a printed copy please email [email protected].
Narrowing the gap: reducing within-school variation in pupil outcomes
In this publication, members of the Leadership Network share their work and outcomes on how they have tackled within-school variation (WSV) in their schools. This guide includes case study illustrations from primary, secondary and special schools, an audit pro-forma and a description of how to measure WSV.
Another useful resource for WSV is Schools learning from their best – within-school variation project.
School leaders leading the system
System leadership was the theme of the Network’s annual conference in 2006. In recognising that school leaders are potentially powerful agents of system change, the conference sought to explore the possibilities that system leadership offers in addressing the challenges of 21st century education. This publication provides a toolkit of four booklets. It is designed to enable users to engage with perspectives from research, policy and practice in order to explore emerging ideas about system leadership. To order a printed copy please email [email protected].
Made in China: a creative dilemma
The accounts presented in this publication, together with the accompanying DVD, document the learning journey undertaken by Leadership Network school leaders involved in the International Placements for Headteachers (IPH) study visit to Shanghai and Heifei. The publication reflects upon the learning drawn from this international experience, with a view to sharing this learning more widely with Network members and other school leaders nationwide. To order a printed copy please email [email protected].
Futures thinking and curriculum
Building on the OECD scenarios for the future of schooling and FutureSight, this major NCSL initiative to support futures thinking in schools involved members of the Leadership Network from the East Midlands region working in partnership with EMLC. The aims of the initiative are to stimulate debate; give local leaders a voice in shaping education for the future; and provide materials and processes to help schools think about and plan for the challenges of the future. A key outcome of the work has been the generation of a series of think pieces designed to support the development of futures thinking. The first series has been developed by headteachers in dialogue with senior business leaders. In the future, it is intended to undertake similar work with moral, political, community and cultural leaders.
Within-school variation case studies
Seventeen case studies from primary, secondary and special schools. Members of the Network share their outcomes on how they’ve tackled within-school variation in their schools.