The term ‘leadership development’ describes a wide range of activities that can be both formal and highly structured, such as the programme leading to the National Professional Qualification for Headship (NPQH), or informal and unstructured – learning ‘on the job’. Leadership development can be stimulated through reading, online learning, mentoring, coaching, problem and site-based approaches, internships, self-assessment diagnostics, collaborative learning groups, and via real and virtual networks. NCSL programmes use all these approaches to leadership development.
A key role for us is to ensure that what NCSL offers is founded on a strong evidence base and extensive professional knowledge. We also learn from Leading Practice seminars, to which school leaders are invited to share their experiences and articulate best practice.
You can find a wide range of publications and resources about leadership development and leading school improvement by visiting the publications pages. Two recent publications on this theme are Effective school leadership 
(170kb, 25 pages) by Peter Lewis and Roger Murphy and Of leadership, management and wisdom (143kb, 19 pages) by Ron Glatter. These two reports have been synthesised and published in Review of the Landscape: Leadership and leadership development 2008.
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