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A-Z list of publications - by author

A

Abra, J & Hunter, M & Smith, R & Kempster, S

• What leaders read 1: key texts from the business world

Ainscow, A

• Developing inclusive schools: implications for leadership

Ainscow, M & Fox,S & O'Kane, C

• Leadership and management in special schools

Anderson, G

• Personalised learning in action - Hey, what about me?

Ansell, D

• Improving schools facing challenging circumstances: perspectives from leading thinkers

Atkinson, T

• No key issues: only as good as your last Ofsted?

B

Beaney, J

• Reaching out, reaching in

Bennett, N

• Distributed Leadership - literature review

Bennett, N & Newton, W & Wise, C & Woods, P & Economou, A

• The role and purpose of middle leaders in schools

Benson, S

• Leading learning: instructional leadership in infant school

Birch, N

• Picturing preferred futures: using case studies to investigate solution-focused approaches to school

Bishton, H

• Children's voices, children rights: what children with special needs have to say about their varioulsy inclusive schools

Bright, T & Ware, N

• Were you prepared: findings from a national survey of headteachers

Brown, P

• The first 100 days: an enquiry into the first 100 days of headship in a failing school

Burgess, T

• Lifting the lid on the creative curriculum

Burnett, N

• Special leadership - what are the implications for the leadership of special schools of potential changes to the special school system?

Burrows, D

• Tidying the cupboard? The role of subject leaders in primary schools

Bush, T

• Black and minority ethnic leaders

Bush, T & Glover, D

• Leadership development: evidence and beliefs
• School leadership: concepts and evidence

C

Castagnoli, P & Cook, N

• Growing your own leaders: the impact of professional development on school improvement

Clerkin, C

• Threads, knots and nets

Cooney, K

• Personalised learning in action - Are you learnin' us today Miss?

Coulton, S

• Getting our heads together

Court, M

• Different approaches to sharing school leadership

Crane, M

• Winning hearts and minds: leadership and performance management

D

Davies, B & Davies, B & Ellison, L

• Success and sustainability: developing the strategically-focused school

Deb Halliday-Bell, Dorcas Jennings, Martin Kennard, Jane McKay, Heather Reid, Nigel Walter

• Mission possible

Dimeck, AM

• Improvement through evaluation

Dr Coleman, M

• Gender and headship in the 21st century

E

Eagle, S & French, J & Malcolm, P

• Thinking headteachers thinking schools

Edwards, D

• It's all in the mix

Englefield, S

• Leading to success: judging success in primary schools in challenging contexts
• Leadership on the frontline: thriving and surviving in challenging circumstances

Evans, H

• Exploring the links between performance management and improved standards

Evans, M

• Open windows: becoming an e-learning school

F

Finn, C & Banks, A

• Two heads better than one? Building a cross-phase school of the future

Flintham, A

• Reservoirs of hope: spirtual and moral leadership in headteachers
• When reservoirs run dry: why some headteachers leave headship early

Francis, J

• Getting out through the middle

Franey, T

• Working smarter together: the development of a enquiry team across twelve schools

Fye,J

• A model of school leadership in challenging urban environments

G

Gill, A

• One step ahead of the game: leading change in ICT in support of pupils learning

Gilly Harwood-Smith

• Thinking ahead

Giltinan, E

• Changing times, changing roles

Gipson, S

• Issues of ICT, school reform and learning-centred school design

Gordon, Peter

• Opening doors, opening minds

Graham, M

• In search of the X factor

Greaves, P

• Going global

Grove, J

• Know where you are going

H

Haesler, M

• Pulling together

Harris, A

• Teacher leadership: principles and practice

Harris, S

• Faith, hope and charity: setting out to create a new culture in merging schools

Hartle, F

• Shaping up to the future: a guide to roles, structure and career development in secondary schools

Hartle, F & Thomas, K & Haygroup

• Growing tomorrow's school leaders: the challenge

Hayes, T

• Rising stars and sitting tenants

Heritage, D & Parr, J

• Search for the leader inside yourself

Heslop, S

• Hidden gold

Hilary Macaulay

• Under the microscope

Hobbs, K

• Re-thinking middle leadership in secondary schools

Hobson, A

• Mentoring and coaching for new leaders: a review of the literature
• Issues for early headship: problems and support strategies

Hollingsworth, A

• The school as a professional learning community

Holmes, D

• One-to-one leadership: coaching in schools

I

Ingate, C

• Should I stay or should I go?

J

Jo Williams

• United we stand

Johnson, K

• Children's voices: pupil leadership in primary schools

Jon Howard-Drake

• Deal or no big deal

Jones, C

• Learning from the middle
• Learning from the middle

K

Kelly, A

• Team talk: sharing leadership in primary schools

Kenning, S

• The intelligent gaze: leadership, lead learners and the concept of the individual growth

Keys, W & Sharp, C & Greene, K & Grayson, H

• Successful leadership of schools in urban and challenging contexts

Kimber, M

• Does size matter? Distributed leadership in small secondary schools

Kugalmass, J W

• Inclusive leadership: leadership for inclusion

L

Lawrence, P

• The strength of weak school ties

Lawson, I

• Leading Islamic schools in the UK: a challenge for us all

Lee, K

• More than a feeling

Lee, T

• Far from the madding crowd?

Lindley, K

• Community conversation

Loader, D

• How are English secondary schools interpreting their freedom to be different

Luck, C

• It's good to talk

M

Mark Aldridge

• School business managers

McFarlane, A

• E-learning for leadership: emerging indicators of effective practice

McKenley, J & Dr Gordon, G

• Challenge plus: the experience of black and minority ethnic school leaders

Michael Mander

• Critical incidents

Moore, E

• Ringing the changes: the middle leaders' role in leading change

N

NCSL

• Leading personalised learning in schools: helping individuals grow
• Leading sustainable schools
• Leading under pressure: leadership for social inclusion
• Lessons from the extended school
• Personalised learning in action - Lessons in partnership
• The future of leadership
• Realising leadership: children's centre leaders in action
• Every Child Matters (ECM) The best of ECM Leadership Direct
• What we are learning about: leadership of Every Child Matters
• Every Child Matters. Taking the wider view: living leadership – making a difference (2008) DVD
• Emerging patterns of school leadership
• Hard federations of small primary schools
• Every Child Matters (ECM) getting closer
• Learning to lead
• ECM Premium Project
• ECM premium project case studies
• ECM premium project toolkit
• A life in the day of a headteacher
• Made in China
• Making a difference - middle leadership in secondary school facing challenging circumstances
• Making the difference - successful leadership in challenging contexts
• Meeting the challenge: growing tomorrow's school leaders
• Narrowing the gap: reducing within-school variation in pupil outcomes
• Networked leadership in action: getting started with networked school self-evaluation
• Networked Learning Communities publications catalogue
• New heads handbook
• Personalised learning in action - Personalising the curriculum
• Personalised learning in action - Primary executive heads
• Prospectus 2008
• Schools learning from their best - within-school variation project
• New models of headship - secondary or special school executive heads
• Student leadership: investing in tomorrow's leaders for schools and communities
• Too busy to learn? An introduction to collaborative leadership learning
• New models of headship - varieties of shared headship: a preliminary exploration
• Working together: helping community leadership work in practice
• Adding value to school leadership and management
• Distributed leadership
• Personalised learning in action
• Learning-centred leadership 1
• Learning-centred leadership 2
• FutureSight
• 100,000 heads are better than one
• System leadership in action
• School leaders leading the system
• System leadership - lessons from the literature
• Driving leadership - what we know about successful school leadership
• Driving leadership - teacher research
• Driving leadership - sustainable leadership
• Driving leadership - a distributed perspective
• New models of headship - primary executive heads
• Valuing our future: sustainability toolkit
• Seven strong claims about successful school leadership
• Turning heads
• What's good about leading schools in challenging circumstances
• Greenhouse schools
• Career moves
• What we know about school leadership
• Primary middle leaders
• ILERN
• ECM: leading challenge workshops
• ECM: why it matters to leaders
• Urban leadership: a toolkit for governors
• Bursar Development Programme impact and evaluation reports
• Children's centres: the new frontier for the welfare state and the education system?
• New models of headship - Co-headship
• Collaborative leadership in extended schools: leading in a multi-agency environment
• Community leadership in networks
• Corporate plan - NCSL
• Curriculum innovation
• Developing creativity in the primary school
• Every Child Matters: how school leaders in extended schools respond to local needs
• Expanding leadership horizons
• New models of headship - federations
• Heart of the matter
• Leadership and faith: working with and learning from school leaders
• Leadership and inclusion: a special school perspective
• Leadership succession: an overview
• Leading a research engaged school
• Leading beyond the school
• Leading coaching in schools

NCSL/Innovation Unit

• Delta 6

Nicola Allan

• Keep your head

P

Parker, R

• Passion and intuition: the impact of life history on leadership

Paviou, D

• Teacher leaders and reflective practioners: building the capacity of a school to improve by promoting research and reflection

Percy, S

• A journey into the unknown

Pocklington, K

• Leading first age learning

Prof Harris, A & Chapman C

• Effective leadership in schools facing challenging circumstances

Prof Harris, A & Muijs, D & Crawford M

• Deputy and assistant headship: building leadership potential

Prof Moloi, K & Potgieter G

• Comparing the experiences of black and minority ethnic leaders in English schools and cross-boundary leaders in South Africa

Prof Walker, A & Prof Dimmock, C & Dr Stevenson, H

• Effective leadership in multi-ethnic schools

Pulley, H & Jagger, L

• Personalised learning in action - And the pupil said

R

Ralley, P & Cockcoft, P

• Virtual leadership: a small school reality?

Rataj-worsnop, V

• Personalised learning in action - Shape shifters

Robertson, J & Murrihy, L

• Developing the person in the professional

Rutherford, R

• Leadership, literacy and the creative arts

S

Schmitz, H & Brown,S

• Mutual support, mutual challenge

Sieber, A

• No regrets? Starting secondary headship

Smith, P

• Leading from the classroom: the impact of the assistant headteacher in primary schools

Southworth, G & Weindling, D

• Leadership in large primary schools

Steward, R

• A better way?

Stewart, M

• Personalised learning in action - Mentoring: from data to people

Suggett, N

• Time for coaching

Swidenbank, H

• The challenge and opportunities of leading and managing an all-age school

T

Thomas, A

• Long lasting success: creating strategic and sustainable primary schools

Thompson, K & Davies, B & Ellison, L

• Can private companies successfully turn around a failing school

Tranter, S

• Talent spotting: recognising and developing leadership potential

Turner, J

• Building Bridges: a study of independent-state school partnerships

U

University of Reading and CfBT

• Second headship

W

Wakenham, V

• Personalised learning in action - Does it help to know?

Wakinshaw, R

• Classrooms in the community

Walker, A

• Priorities, strategies and challenges: proactive leadership in multi-ethnic schools

Walsh, K

• ICT's about learning: school leadership and the effective integration of information and communications technology

West, M & Ainscow, M & Notman, H

• What leaders read 2: key texts from education and beyond

West-Burnham, J & Ireson, G

• Leadership development and personal effectiveness

Wilding, B

• Does the net work?

Wong, S

• Perceptions of the impact of leadership training on newly appointed female principals in England and Hong Kong

Woods, R

• Enchanted headteachers: sustainability in primary school headship

Wright, P

• Raising the bar

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