The Making a Difference website contains summary information about the project, as well as useful downloadable systems and structures that you can use in your school. You can also download the project materials. View the website .
This project seeks to describe the characteristics of successful middle leaders in secondary schools facing challenging circumstances. We investigated why some schools facing challenging circumstances are much more successful than others and why, within these schools, some departments are more successful than others.
Making a Difference aimed to explain this variation and to offer practical guidance for school leaders. We asked practising middle leaders to investigate what other middle leaders were doing in 21 departments, in order to understand how they make a difference to pupil learning. Detailed portraits of successful practice have been developed together with online resources to share practical tips with schools.
The project was conducted over the last 18 months, led by Professor Geoff Southworth and Professor John West-Burnham.
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