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Leadership Methodologies Compared

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One of  the- some would say the one - key pre-occupations of leadership is the future. And the trouble with the future is that it hasn't happened yet - so there are many techniques for attempting to organise thinking around shaping the future. This simple table compares the key features of three different currently popular approaches or methodologies.

CUREE's Local Leadership of Education and Training project for the Education and Training Foundation included some experimental testing of these three approaches which you can also download from here

If you are interested in CUREE's Leadership Development Work, you'll find more about it here or contact Niamn Mc Mahon to discuss your situation

CPDL National Standards

The Department for Education (DfE) in England approved a groundbreaking new Standard for Teachers Continuing Professional Development in 2016. Here you find various tools and resources CUREE has created to help schools and others meet those Standards

Mini-enquiry Tools for Narrowing the Attainment Gap

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These two mini-enquiry tools help school leaders and practitioners gather and use evidence of teaching and learning practice in the classroom and/or school.

The 'Observing Others' tool helps middle and senior leaders structure lesson (and other practice) observation to serve an R& D purpose rather than, say , performance management.

The other Tool is an introduction to a group of  research 'tasters' covering a wide range of evidence based teaching and learning topics.