Table of Contents

Foreword
Part One - Contexts for Success
Leaders and Contexts: What Previous Research Tells Us About the Relationship
What All Successful Leaders Do In Most Contexts
Part Two - Leadership Actions and Pupil Outcomes
Models of Leadership and Pupil Outcomes
Similarities and Differences Between Primary and Secondary Leaders: A Badly Neglected Distinction in Leadership Research and Training
Characteristics and Practices of Leaders in Schools which Improved from Different Starting Points
Part Three - Who Heads Are and What They Do To Build and Sustain Success
Core Values and Practices: Leadership, Learning and Improvement
Phases of School Improvement
Layered Leadership Strategies: How Leaders Achieve and Sustain Successful School Improvement
Part Four - Future Progress and Prospects
Organisational Democracy, Trust and The Progressive Distribution ofLeadership
Successful Leadership: Contexts, Claims and Qualities

About the Author

David Hopkins is the inaugural HSBC Chair in International Leadership, International arm of the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust and the Leadership Centre at the Institute of Education, University of London. Between 2002 and 2005 he served three Secretary of States as the Chief Adviser on School Standards at the Department for Education and Skills. Previously, he was Chair of the Leicester City Partnership Board and Dean of the Faculty of Education at the University of Nottingham. David is also an International Mountain Guide who still climbs regularly in the Alps and Himalayas. He has previously outlined his views on teaching quality, school improvement and large scale reform in Hopkins D. (2001) School Improvement for Real, Routledge / Falmer and Hopkins D (2007) Every School a Great School, Open University Press.