To lead schools successfully, the relationship between the various leaders in the school and the teams that they lead is critical to establishing a healthy school culture and to achieve continuous improvement. There are times, perhaps, where leaders focus too much on the team members driving improvement as opposed to whether the team members are... Continue Reading →
Understanding our role and responsibilities as leaders in schools is better understood by examining the way relationships change in the building as one moves up the leadership ladder. When we begin teaching, our main interactions, on a day-to-day basis, are with students. As we take on leadership roles within the school, direct contact time with... Continue Reading →
A huge amount of effort goes into improving schools yet we often can overlook how much work is needed to maintain a high performance culture. As schools get better they often become more complex, as significant systems thinking goes into creating a high degree of synergy between the various components of a school that may... Continue Reading →
Does your 'To Do' list seem never-ending and continues to grow by the day? Well you are not alone, this is the case for most, if not all, school leaders. The problem can affect us to varying degrees, the most common of which we see is burn-out, frustration and despair, as we struggle to keep... Continue Reading →
Bob Davids stated in his talk on leadership without ego that as a leader "You need to be in touch with the people you lead, and you need to be in their shoes." Essentially what Davids was getting at in his talk is that good leaders will climb down down off their perch and get... Continue Reading →
An old colleague of mine used to say, "Happy teachers means happy students." There is some truth to this statement but upon closer examination, it quite often does not hold true. Leaders, indeed, do need to work hard at supporting teachers. Most importantly, leaders need to strive to create the conditions in schools where teachers... Continue Reading →
