Retaining headteachers
Resources to help you encourage school leaders to stay on in headship.
Retaining school leaders
A guide to keeping talented leaders engaged. Covering how employers and governing bodies can retain their headteachers, roles for 'retiring' heads, reasons headteachers are most likely to leave and secrets of sustainable careers under pressure.
- Retaining school leaders
(226kb, 48 pages)
Succession Planning: Key themes for school governors
This booklet encapsulates topics from 5 conferences, held last year by the National Governors' Association and the National College for School Leadership, to support governors in finding and developing headteachers. It includes answers to questions governors asked, and signposts where to find more information.
- Succession Planning: Key themes for school governors (1.56Mb, 21 pages)
Dedicated headship time: Exemplar policy
An exemplar policy for ensuring that headteachers have a reasonable workload and work/life balance.
- Dedicated headship time: Exemplar policy (84kb, 5 pages)
Recruitment and retention
Video presentation by Peter Addison-Child, director and co-founder of Navigate, a specialist consultancy working in leadership recruitment and development in education, skills and children's services.
The issue of retention
This interactive guide looks at the importance of retention, the reasons why headteachers choose to leave and strategies we can consider to help them postpone their departure.
