Professor David Hopkins is Chair of Educational Leadership at the University of Bolton and Emeritus at UCL London and the University of Nottingham. He is passionately committed to improving the quality of education for all and has worked at the intersection of policy, research and practice for over forty years. David was Chief Adviser to three Secretary of States on School Standards in the UK, Dean of Education at the University of Nottingham, helped found the National College for School Leadership and consults internationally on school reform. This book builds on arguments and perspectives developed in his school improvement trilogy: School Improvement for Real (2001), Every School a Great School (2007) and Exploding the Myths of School Reform (2013). David was recently ranked as the 16th most influential educator in the world by the American based Global Gurus organization.