Includes bibliographical references and index.

Becoming and staying an educational leader -- Values -- Ways of thinking about leadership -- Evolving as a leader-working with what you have -- Organisations and leadership -- Power in context -- Crafting the context -- Leadership development in teams -- Personal leadership challenges -- Boundaries and change -- Strategic leadership, change and communities -- Managing stakeholders and partnership boundaries -- Knowing your own boundaries-the capable leader -- Becoming a leadership researcher -- Further study-choices and challenges -- Researching in your own organisation -- The personal side of leadership -- Leadership challenges and opportunities.

Effective leadership combines organisational skills and personal qualities. Building on notions of leadership at all levels, this book contains an invaluable bank of creative ideas to help teachers already in management positions, as well as those just starting out, to reflect on their personal and leadership development. With a focus on organisational improvement and leading strategically within changing policy contexts, chapters interrogate key leadership issues such as managing people, values and context. Examples from the UK and internationally further demonstrate how to develop as a successful and sustainable leader. Content includes: -the influence of local and national contexts; -accountability; -working with stakeholders across boundaries and borders; -approaches to change; -becoming a strategic leader; -the educational leader as researcher. This is an essential resource for practising and aspiring educational leaders and managers and students on postgraduate or personal development courses, in the UK and internationally. Focusing on organisation improvement and strategical leadership, this book offers a bank of creative ideas and guidance for teachers already in management positions, and those just starting out reflect on their leadership development.