Sustaining Depth and Meaning in School Leadership

This book concerns the emotional and psychological experience of school leadership. It describes the pressures and rewards of their roles, together with some of the ways that school leaders successfully sustain and develop themselves and their teams.

Emil Jackson is a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist, Adult Psychotherapist, and Executive Coach. His clinical and teaching base is at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, where he is Head of Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy in the Adolescent and Young Adult Service. Since 2002, Emil has been involved in a wide range of coaching and consultancy across public and corporate sector organizations-from FTSE 100 companies, to global social media firms, to family businesses, to schools. Emil now works nationally and internationally with senior executives and CEOs, but he particularly values his coaching work with headteachers and senior leaders in education. Andrea Berkeley has worked at the leading edge of education development and reform. For 14 years, she was head of culturally diverse Preston Manor comprehensive in London, leading the school from a "Serious weaknesses" to an "Outstanding" Ofsted rating. She has worked for 13 years with various national organizations on the training and development of education leaders, including the National College for School Leadership and University College London Institute of Education, and during her six years as founding Dean of Development at Ambition School Leadership. Andrea now works as an executive coach and leadership consultant to headteachers and chief executives -particularly those working in challenging contexts-and also to senior executives in social enterprise and corporate sectors.

INTRODUCTION (Andrea Berkeley and Emil Jackson) 1 Keeping your head: the unspoken realities of headship (Andrea Berkeley) 2 The context and challenges of contemporary school leadership (Peter Early and Toby Greany) 3 Emotional factors in leading teaching and learning (Biddy Youell) 4 Individual, group and organisational dynamics: a theoretical overview (Judith Bell) 5 Executive coaching for the hidden realities of life as a school leader (Emil Jackson and Andrea Berkeley) 6 Leadership and governance: leadership pairs coaching (Clare Huffington) 7 On the leading edge of learning: work discussion groups for headteachers (Emil Jackson and Andrea Berkeley) 8 Learning leadership: lessons from the top (Ben Bryant) 9 The impact of personality preferences on school leadership (Emil Jackson) 10 Developing leaders: lessons from the business world (Barry Speirs and Andrea Berkeley) 11 Creating coaching cultures in schools (Chris Munro, Margaret Barr, & Christian van Nieuwerburgh) 12 Designing, managing and evaluating school leadership programmes (Sarah Harrison) 13 Lessons from "The London Challenge": a whole-system approach to leadership development (David Woods) 14 Talking heads: the voice of school leaders (Andrea Berkeley et al.)