The materials in this section deal with issues around school improvement, leadership development, diversity and the challenges faced by many schools in specific contexts. More information about these broad areas are listed in each of the sub-sections below.
Internships: leadership learning through placements 
(256kb, 18 pages)
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 to consider the benefits of this approach and to implement your own programme.
View the full evaluation report for this publication – NCSL’s five-region internship programmes 2006-07 (232kb, 37 pages).
Stepping up, stepping out: learning about leadership (256kb, 12 pages)
Stepping up, stepping out: learning about leadership in perspective (424kb, 12 pages)
Stepping up, stepping out: learning about leadership in practice (336kb, 12 pages)
Stepping up, stepping out: learning about leadership in discussion (712kb, 8 pages)
Stepping up, stepping out: NCSL’s Leadership Network in action DVD. To order a copy of this resource, which is available free of charge, please email [email protected].
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.