Creating Tomorrow: Planning, developing and sustaining change in education and other public services
January 2009
This book describes and explains remodelling, the powerful and proven change process that has been the driving force behind the most exciting story in education in years – what Ofsted calls in its 2007 report, Reforming and developing the school workforce, “a revolutionary shift in workforce culture”.

This culture shift has come about as a direct result of the successful implementation, through remodelling, of the 2003 agreement Raising standards and tackling workload: a national agreement – between the government, employers’ representatives, the school workforce unions and professional associations.

Click here to read the latest review by Aspect The Association of Professionals in Education and Children's Trusts.

Click here to read Ofsted's report 'Workforce reform in schools: has it made a difference? An evaluation of changes made to the school workforce 2003 ̶ 2009'

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Understanding Systems Leadership: Securing excellence and equity in education

By Pat Collarbone and John West-Burnham

This is a significant study of one of the most important changes in our understanding of the nature of school leadership. For a generation, educational leadership has been understood in terms of the leadership of a school: accountability has been focused on the performance of the individual school and headship has been seen as synonymous with the school.

A range of forces is now challenging that model: focus is shifting from the autonomous school to the system as a whole. The most significant examples of this are to be found in a range of policies, strategies and initiatives: The Children’s Strategy, The Children Act and the establishment of Children and Young People’s services; School Improvement Partners; extended services; clusters and federations of schools; Building Schools for the Future/the primary capital programme; personalising learning and the impact of ICT; changes in the 14 to 19 curriculum.

Understanding Systems Leadership offers a detailed, systematic and rigorous analysis of the implications of this new context for headteachers and school leaders: This study offers:

• A review of the changing context of school leadership
• A model of our emerging understanding of the nature of systems leadership
• A detailed examination of the practical implications of the components of systems leadership
• An analysis of the implications for leadership effectiveness
• A review of the issues bringing about change

This book will be a valuable resource for all school leaders, governors, those involved in Children and Young People’s Services and those providing support, training and development for a new generation of school leaders.

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