Leading Schools in Challenging Circumstances

Strategies for Success

Philip Smith, Professor Les Bell

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Bloomsbury Academic USA
16 January 2014

School governors & school boards

The leadership of schools can make a significant difference to enhancing the life chances of students in schools and enabling them to succeed. This book examines leadership within schools, focusing on securing success within a challenging social and political environment. It explores the approaches to leadership adopted by four successful secondary school headteachers in a local authority situated in an area of high social deprivation and identifies the impact the headteachers of these schools have on staff, students and community. It analyses the key leadership strategies of these successful school leaders, strategies that can be deployed in all schools, and explores the links between leadership theories and leadership actions. The book goes on to examine how these strategies were actually implemented in a failing school in challenging circumstances and shows how other schools might benefit from such strategies and the insights on which they are based.

By: Philip Smith, Professor Les Bell
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic USA
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 13mm
Weight: 321g
ISBN: 9781441184054
ISBN 10: 1441184058
Pages: 184
Publication Date: 16 January 2014
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

List of Tables Acknowledgements 1. Schools in Challenging Circumstances 2. School Leadership: Concepts and Realities 3. Using Transactional Leadership in Schools 4. Using Transformational Leadership in Schools 5. Deploying Transformational Leadership: Strategies for Challenging Circumstances 6. Implementing Transformational Leadership in a Challenging School: A Case Study 7. Successful Leadership in Challenging Circumstances: From Theory to Implementation Appendices References Index

Philip Smith works across a family of schools situated in some of the most deprived areas of England and is the Principal in one of the academies within this family. He has a Doctorate in Educational Leadership from the University of Sheffield, UK. Les Bell is Emeritus Professor of Educational Management at the School of Education, University of Leicester, UK, and Professor of Educational Leadership at the University of Lincoln, UK. Before his retirement in July 2006, he was a member of the Centre for Educational Leadership and Management and Director of the Doctorate in Education programme at the University of Leicester, UK.

Reviews for Leading Schools in Challenging Circumstances: Strategies for Success

A fascinating insight into how school leadership can make a difference when faced with the most difficult circumstances, this book provides sharp analysis and hope in equal measure. Howard Stevenson, Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, University of Nottingham, UK This valuable book provides a scholarly and readable account of the leadership strategies deployed by a group of successful head teachers in schools facing highly challenging circumstances, using the lens of transactional and transformational leadership. The exploration is enriched by a case study of a further school in challenging circumstances in which the newly appointed head has successfully applied the strategies identified earlier in the book. Jerry Wellington, Professor of Education, University of Sheffield, UK