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Creating a Strong Culture and Positive Climate in Schools Nick Hart

Creating a Strong Culture and Positive Climate in Schools By Nick Hart

Creating a Strong Culture and Positive Climate in Schools by Nick Hart


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Summary

This insightful book reveals the role of concepts such as autonomy and trust in school improvement. Each chapter sets out the specific knowledge and expertise required by school leaders for great cultural leadership and offers practical examples and case studies to show how they can be applied in different school contexts.

Creating a Strong Culture and Positive Climate in Schools Summary

Creating a Strong Culture and Positive Climate in Schools: Building Knowledge to Bring About Improvement by Nick Hart

* Provides an innovative way of looking at cultural leadership drawing on practice from other industries
* Examines the shared characteristics of high performing teams and how they behave and how this can be a key driver in schools improving outcomes for children
* Shows leaders how they can address persistent problems to do with administration, staff and school improvement
* Sets out the knowledge leaders need to make good decisions.
* Includes practical examples and case studies to show how the ideas translate into a school context.

About Nick Hart

Nick Hart is the Executive Headteacher of the Alwyn and Courthouse Primary Federation in Maidenhead. He has led in small schools and large schools; schools in a MAT and schools under local authority control; schools at the forefront of innovation and schools that required stabilising. Nick writes a well established blog on education issues such as leadership, culture and curriculum design.

Table of Contents

Introduction, Part 1. Why do leaders need to pay attention to culture and climate?, 1. What is culture and why is it important?, 2. Extensive domain specific knowledge is required to create a strong culture and positive climate, 3. Setting our school's strategic direction, Part 2. What do leaders need to know about culture and climate?, Preamble: What does it take for school leaders to learn about culture and climate from other domains?, 4. What do high performing teams have in common?, 5. The power of expectations, 6. Harnessing the drivers of motivation, 7. High levels of trust are required to improve outcomes for children, Part 3. How do leaders go about culture change?, Preamble: Culture change, 8. Influencing culture as a new leader, 9. Influencing culture as an established leader, 10. Why measuring culture is futile and evaluating it is not much better

Additional information

NGR9781032168845
9781032168845
1032168846
Creating a Strong Culture and Positive Climate in Schools: Building Knowledge to Bring About Improvement by Nick Hart
New
Paperback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
2022-09-06
156
N/A
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