Leading improved staff performance
Effective management systems are crucial in sustaining quality teaching and learning. Such systems involve setting up processes and structures for school self-review, external review, performance management, student assessment and reporting, curriculum organisation, and timetabling. Click here for further resources on this area.
Breaking the Leadership Rules: Leadership: What’s Wrong?
by Bruce Wilson
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This paper explores the notion of shared power, how delegation works, and the importance of leadership in the principal's management role. It challenges many of the beliefs that we hold about leadership. It is deliberately provocative, and invites us to consider the implications of some of the current language that we are using about school leadership.
Democratic Leadership for School Improvement in Challenging Contexts
by Alma Harris and Chris Chapman
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This summary outlines the findings from a research study funded by the UK-based National College for School Leadership (NCSL). The study explored the successful practices and school improvement strategies in a group of secondary schools facing challenging circumstances (SFCC).
Key Features of Appraisal Effectiveness
by Eileen Piggot-Irvine
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This article gives an overview of performance management and appraisal in New Zealand schools. Also, outlines a model of principal appraisal that integrates both development and accountability.
Sustaining School Improvement: Ten Primary Schools' Journeys
by Linda Mitchell, Marie Cameron, and Cathy Wylie
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This NZCER research report describes case studies in nine primary schools and one intermediate school that have made deliberate efforts to bring about positive improvements in teaching and learning.
School Culture
by Louise Stoll
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In this article, Louise Stoll explores the relationship between school culture and school improvement.
Transforming High Schools
by Pedro Noguera
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This article summarises research into secondary school reforms in the United States. The key factor in achieving successful change is the involvement of teachers, parents, and students in the change process.
Teachers Make a Difference: What is the Research Evidence?
by John Hattie
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This very engaging paper was delivered at the Australian Council for Educational Research Annual Conference in 2003 by Professor John Hattie. It discusses the research evidence showing that “it is what teachers know, do and care about which is very powerful in the learning equation”.
What We Know about Successful School Leadership
by Kenneth Leithwood and Carolyn Riehl
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This article brings together some current thinking on school leadership into one document. The broad categories described as important for leadership success are: setting directions, developing people and developing the organisation.
Lincoln High School
Linda Tame has discovered the power of teacher learning. The staff and the students realise that learning at Lincoln High School is changing.
