Sustaining depth and meaning in school leadership : keeping your head / Edited by Emil Jackson & Andrea Berkeley.

Keeping your head: The unspoken realities of headship / Andrea Berkeley -- the context and challenges of contemporary school leadership professors / Peter Early and Toby Greany -- Emotional factors in leading teaching and learning / Biddy Youell -- Individual, group and organisational dynamics: a theoretical overview / Dr Judith Bell -- School leadership development: psychodynamic approaches -- Executive coaching for the hidden realities of life as a school leader / Emil Jackson and Andrea Berkeley -- Leadership and governance: leadership pairs coaching / Clare Huffington -- On the leading edge of learning: work discussion groups for head teachers / Emil Jackson and Andrea Berkeley -- Learning leadership: lessons from the top / Professor Ben Bryant -- School leadership development: trends and approaches -- The impact of personality preferences on school leadership / Emil Jackson -- Developing leaders: lessons from the business world / Barry Speirs and Andrea Berkeley -- Creating coaching cultures in schools / Chris Munro, Margaret Barr & Christian van Nieuwerburgh -- Designing, managing and evaluating school leadership programmes / Sarah Harrison -- Lessons from 'The London Challenge': a whole system approach to leadership development / David Woods CBE -- The last word -- Talking heads: the voice of school leaders / Andrea Berkeley and serving school leaders.

"Sustaining Depth and Meaning in School Leadership: Keeping Your Head concerns the emotional and psychological experience of school leadership - in particular, the felt experience of life as a headteacher. It describes the pressures and rewards of their roles, together with some of the ways that school leaders successfully sustain and develop themselves and their teams in what has become an increasingly complex, challenging, and highly accountable role. This book explores the personal experience of leading schools. Section one provides an overview and analysis of current and historical trends in school leadership, and offers some theoretical frameworks for making sense of these. Section two then offers psychodynamic approaches to supporting and developing school leaders and the impact that trends in executive education continue to have on this. Section three looks at approaches to school leadership development more generally, including team development; influences from the business world; the growth of mentoring and coaching as a leadership intervention; the design and evaluation of leadership development programs and a case study on whole-system development. The last word is given to ten serving headteachers and deputies and their leadership journeys. This range of chapters, concepts and perspectives will support school leaders to maintain an emotional equilibrium while navigating the multi-layered tightrope of intra-psychic, interpersonal and organisational dynamics inherent in school life. Rooted in Jackson and Berkeley's belief that school leaders are likely to be at their best when they find their own unique and authentic way of taking up their leadership role, this book is an accessible, supportive and developmental contribution for all those involved in education leadership"-- Provided by publisher.

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