As my road-trip work comes to an end for the term, I’m reflecting on the qualities of all the great people I meet visiting schools.
Without exception, people everywhere are working hard, often in tough circumstances, and I have huge respect for everything they’re seeking to do.
However, there are some schools I visit where it’s clear that the quality of teaching and learning is high, sometimes within a particular phase or subject team, sometimes across the whole school.
Without exception, when the teaching is evidently strong, you also meet the leaders who make it so.
Within a school where there is variation from team to team, I think the team leader is nearly always a key factor. What are the qualities of those leaders? My impression is that there are three key elements.
