Developing Leadership: Creating the Schools of Tomorrow

Contents:

Series Editor’s Preface

Introduction: Developing Leadership: creating the schools of tomorrow

List of Contributors:

Chapter One: Developing Leaders for their Future not our Past
Dean Fink

Chapter Two: Developing Leadership for Succession
Andy Hargreaves

Chapter Three: Developing Distributed Leadership
James Spillane

Chapter Four: Developing Leadership for Learning Communities
Louise Stoll and Ray Bolam

Chapter Five: Developing Leadership for Schools Facing Challenging Circumstances
Gary Crow

Chapter Six: Developing Leadership in Context
Allan Walker and Clive Dimmock

Chapter Seven: Developing Innovative Leadership
Ken Stott and Lee Sing Kong

Chapter Eight: Developing Beginning Leadership
Fred Paterson and John West-Burnham

Chapter Nine: Developing leadership for e-confident schools
Tony Richardson

Chapter Ten: Developing Leadership for Organisational Learning
Bill Mulford and Halia Silins

Overview and Conclusions
Geoff Southworth

• What is our best present understandingof good school leadership?
• How do I lead my school to make itrelevant to students of the 21st century?

The idea for this book grew out of aninternational conference organized by theNational College for School Leadership,An International Future: learning frombest practice worldwide, which exploredinnovative and significant aspects ofeducational leadership and brought together internationalcolleagues to generate new understandings. The conference proved adynamic forum for debate for researchers, academics, policy-makersand practitioners. It was clear at the conference that there was aconsensus of understanding around certain key themes that crossednational boundaries. In Developing Leadership, well-knowninternational contributors explore this consensus to promote the keythemes which reflect our best present understanding of good schoolleadership, and to inform school leaders about leading edge thinkingwhich bears on their role.

These key ideas, which are highlighted at various points throughoutthe book, are built around professional learning communities;distributed leadership; strategic thinking about ICT; sustainability;internship; mentoring and coaching.

Contributors: Ray Bolam, Martin Coles, Gary Crow, Clive Dimmock,Dean Fink, David Green, Andy Hargreaves, Sing Kong Lee, BillMulford, Fred Paterson, Tony Richardson, Geoff Southworth, JamesSpillane, Louise Stoll, Ken Stott, Allan Walker, John West-Burnham