New School Leader: What Now?

Simple lessons to navigate doubt, embrace challenge and lead well every day

Neil Renton (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

222 Seiten

2023
Critical Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-915713-42-1 (ISBN)

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Written for all school leaders and headteachers who are feeling daunted by their new role or need a little inspiration and encouragement in an existing role. Neil Renton answers that simple question - what now? - with guidance to help navigate feelings of self-doubt and overcome leadership challenges.

It is based on the author's own experience as he tells the uplifting and incredibly honest story of his leadership journey as the new headteacher of one of the largest comprehensive schools in the North of England. Neil Renton captivates you with his story, from being appointed in late 2018, leading through a pandemic, and coping with an Ofsted inspection. It examines the kinds of challenges that new leaders face and how they can be overcome, dealing with both one-off events and the every day of school leadership.

The book provides a clear focus on those first moments, months and years of being a new school leader. Its four part structure covers navigating doubt, conquering challenges, the basics of leading every day, and creating the right mindset and culture. It encourages critical reflection based on both serious and humorous stories while offering practical advice and strategies for effective educational leadership.

Neil Renton is the headteacher of a large comprehensive secondary school of over 2100 students in North Yorkshire. An experienced senior leader, he was appointed to headship just before the pandemic.

Foreword

Part 1 Navigating doubt

Learning to carry the weight
The importance of allies
Working without praise
Plain speaking
Speaking from the heart
Decisions
U-turns
Kopfkino
Forgetting and remembering
Visibility

Part 1 summary

Part 2 Navigating challenge

Facing significant underperformance head-on
Covering off in a crisis
Assertion
Keeping perspective
Echo
Breathing through my feet
Real courage
Inspection
Work and rest

Part 2 summary

Part 3 Leading every day: the basics

Curiosity
Process, not place
Smiling
Saying thank you
Questions
Visits
Feedback
Next steps
The gift of helping to cross steppingstones
The importance of preparation
Meetings
Reading
Carrying on
Restart
Moments that give perspective

Part 3 summary

Part 4 Leading every day: mindset and culture

The importance of goals
Little things that mean a lot
Slowly building trust
Positive narratives
Quiet ambition
The misconception of strong leadership
Benches
The self-employed mindset
The pitfall of the self-employed mindset
Threads
Tuning forks
Pipelines
Working sideways across schools

Part 4 summary

Erscheinungsdatum	22.08.2023
Verlagsort	Northwich
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	340 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
ISBN-10	1-915713-42-0 / 1915713420
ISBN-13	978-1-915713-42-1 / 9781915713421
Zustand	Neuware