Resources
These resources have been produced to support those working on leadership succession. Please feel free to download them by clicking on the links below.
- Key documents
- Leadership diversity
- Framework for action
- Leadership succession: An overview
(157kb, 18 pages) - Leadership Partner School programme
- What are we learning about… recruiting leaders for faith schools? (344kb, 8 pages)
- What are we learning about… NPQH graduates? (473kb, 8 pages)
- What are we learning about… the school leadership labour market? (438 kb, 8 pages)
- What are we learning about… recruiting primary school headteachers? (357kb, 8 pages)
- Recruiting headteachers and senior leaders (311kb, 34 pages)
- Local solutions for leadership succession (115kb, 10 pages)
- Achieving equality and diversity in school and children’s centre leadership (753kb, 63 pages)
- Turning heads: Taking a marketing approach to leadership recruitment (213kb, 48 pages)
- Retaining school leaders (266kb, 48 pages)
- Audio and video
- Tools
- Interactive guides
- Attracting candidates to the market
- A framework for action
- Retention
- Responding to the market
- Achieving equality and diversity in leadership
- Diversity and widening the talent pool
- Case studies
- Youth Sport Trust network schools: case studies
- Identifying, recruiting and selecting leaders at network or individual school level (32kb, 4 pages)
- Women into leadership (44kb, 3 pages)
- Developing opportunities for growing leaders across other schools (31kb, 4 pages)
- Wembury Primary co-headship (26kb, 4 pages)
- Key documents
- Leadership diversity
- Reasons to be a headteacher (3.42Mb, 20 pages)
- Career moves (330kb, 50 pages)
- What’s good about leading schools in challenging circumstances? (191kb, 16 pages)
- Leadership succession: An overview (157kb, 18 pages)
- Be a head programme
- Applying for headship – practical guides
- Women into headship
- Audio and video
- Why headship?
- Are you ready to make the step up?
- Support with headship
- Make a change – and not a small one
- Finding the right post
- Heading on up – women and leadership
- Women into headship
- Tools
- Futures thinking – a guide to reflection
- Career planning tool
- Personal training needs analysis
- Leadership map
- Interactive guides
- Case studies
- Mind the gap (51kb, 5 pages)
- Developing opportunities for growing leaders across other schools (31kb, 4 pages)
- Wembury Primary co-headship (26kb 4 pages)
- Key documents
- Leadership diversity
- Framework for action
- Leadership succession: An overview (157kb, 18 pages)
- Leadership Partner School programme
- What are we learning about… recruiting leaders for faith schools? (344kb, 8 pages)
- What are we learning about… NPQH graduates? (473kb, 8 pages)
- What are we learning about… the school leadership labour market? (438kb, 8 pages)
- What are we learning about… recruiting primary school headteachers? (357kb, 8 pages)
- Achieving equality and diversity in school and children’s centre leadership (753kb, 63 pages)
- Greenhouse schools (301kb, 26 pages)
- What’s good about leading schools in challenging circumstances? (191kb, 16 pages)
- Career moves (330kb, 50 pages)
- Audio and video
- Playing your part
- Fast tracking
- The power of collaboration and networking
- Working together to develop future leaders
- Tools
- Interactive guides
- Greenhouse schools
- Staying on
- Identifying and developing future leaders
- Achieving equality and diversity in leadership
- Succession planning
- Case studies
- Maintaining a work-life balance (24kb, 4 pages)
- Developing opportunities for growing leaders across other schools (31kb, 4 pages)
- Wembury Primary co-headship (26kb 4 pages)
- talk2learn highlights- Issue 23a: Keep your head (912kb, 1 page)
- Key documents
- Leadership diversity
- Toolkit for governors
- Succession Planning: key themes for school governors (1.56Mb, 21 pages)
- Recruiting headteachers and senior leaders (311kb, 34 pages)
- Leadership Partner School programme
- What are we learning about… recruiting leaders for faith schools? (344kb, 8 pages)
- What are we learning about… NPQH graduates? (473kb, 8 pages)
- What are we learning about… the school leadership labour market? (438kb, 8 pages)
- What are we learning about… recruiting primary school headteachers? (357kb, 8 pages)
- NPQH+ sample programme schedule and evalution (85kb, 6 pages)
- Turning heads: Taking a marketing approach to leadership recruitment (311kb, 48 pages)
- Retaining school leaders (266kb, 48 pages)
- Framework for action
- Leadership succession: An overview (157kb, 18 pages)
- Achieving equality and diversity in school and children’s centre leadership (753kb, 63 pages)
- Greenhouse schools (301kb, 26 pages)
- Audio and video
- Looking ahead and preparing for change
- Change and school leadership
- Successful recruitment
- Planning ahead for succession
- Growing internal talent
- Tools
- Recruiting for leadership roles
- Local conditions – a reflection guide for governors
- Culture for leadership survey
- Building a job description
- Interactive guides
- New models of headship
- The importance of succession planning
- The issue of retention
- Recruitment process
- Leadership recruitment
- Achieving equality and diversity in leadership
- Widening the talent pool
- Case studies