Leadership

What are leaders, teachers and students learning from collaborative approaches to personalisation?

Aim: This research project set out to explore a collaborative learning journey towards what may now be recognised as the partnership-based component of personalisation. Specifically it explored the following key questions in relation to the development of partnership-based approaches to the delivery of personalised learning: What has been the impact of the experience of partnership on the leaders' leadership? What has been the impact of the experience of partnership on the teachers' teaching? What has been the impact of the experience of partnership on the students' learning?

Learning-centred leadership project: A study of middle leadership in 21 secondary schools

Aim: The main aims of the project were: To investigate the nature of effective learning-centred leadership and its contribution to the creation of teaching and learning schools; To analyse and describe the practice of learning-centred leadership and its influence upon aspects of the professional practice of others; To explore school leaders understandings of instructional and interpersonal learning-centred leadership; To examine the processes involved in creating learning and teaching schools in which such leadership can be developed, supported and sustained; To investigate and learn from the

Leading from the classroom: The role of assistant headteachers in primary schools

Aim: The research aimed to explore the extent to which assistant headteachers were contributing to the leadership of primary schools. Nationally, leadership groups were introduced in September 2000 and a new post of assistant headteacher was created. The research identified the rationale for the appointment, examined the variety of leadership activity that assistant headteachers were involved in and sought to determine the impact that this had in their schools. The enquiry focused on actions that were agreed by the participants to be leadership in nature, as opposed to managerial activity.

ResearchED London 2016 Gaining and Sustaining Momentum

On the 10th September, 2016, Philippa Cordingley presented at the annual ResearchED Conference in London, a practitioner-led event attended by educators and researchers from across the UK. Philippa's session drew on the recently published Teach First Gaining and Sustaining Momentum Report and the newly launched SKEIN Momentum product. If you would like to view Philippa's presentation from the event please contact joe.askew@curee.co.uk.

ResearchED London 2016 Gaining and Sustaining Momentum

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On the 10th September, 2016, Philippa Cordingley presented at the annual ResearchED Conference in London, a practitioner-led event attended by educators and researchers from across the UK. Philippa's session drew on the recently published Teach First Gaining and Sustaining Momentum Report and the newly launched SKEIN Momentum product. 

Gaining and Sustaining Momentum: accelerating progress in schools

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CUREE has, in collaboration with Teach First, concluded a research project continuing on from our previous work on characteristics of high-performing schools. As an extension of that project, CUREE has spent a year exploring characteristics shared by schools which are struggling to establish and/or continue momentum in their progress towards reaching high-performing status, and investigating how these schools’ individual contexts and circumstances relate to the broader evidence base around what exactly makes schools successful in making progress.

Read more about the publication here, and Philippa's blog about the report can be found here.