Addressing the School Leadership Crisis for Sustainable Change
"Explore the challenges facing school leadership and how to make it a sustainable career choice. Uncover key factors stifling leadership ambition and driving attrition, while highlighting health risks to school leaders. Discover recommendations for empowering leaders and restoring trust in the education system." (Total characters: 300)
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FIXING THE LEADERSHIP CRISIS: TIME FOR CHANGE Making school leadership a sustainable career choice
SCHOOL BUSINESS LEADERSHIP IN CRISIS? Making school business leadership sustainable
Section A: State of the nation leadership indicators
Excessive workload has long been recognised as a driver of leadership attrition, but often it hasn t been considered in relation to school business leaders. #SchoolLeadershipCrisis
Section B: Key factors that stifle leadership ambition and drive attrition
Section C: The health and well-being risks to school leaders
The government must: restore trust by empowering school leaders to make the decisions that best meet their learners needs, free from centralised diktat and control commit to full engagement, proper consultation and meaningful collaboration with the profession s representative bodies when developing policy reform inspection and accountability measures to remove drivers of unnecessary workload, fear and stress restore leaders real pay, restore the leadership pay differential; and set the School Teachers Review Body a remit to consult with trade unions to devise a new professional pay structure to support teachers and leaders throughout their careers value school leaders and teachers by removing the drivers of the mental health and well-being crisis, and providing accessible, fully-funded support.
The government must develop a comprehensive and holistic strategy for supporting a pipeline for school business leaders. This should do the following: Include initiatives to tackle the workload of school business leaders, integrated with those offered for the leadership profession as a whole Resolve the issues around the disparity in pay many school business leaders face, by ensuring that SBLs performing a leadership level role are able to be paid at an equivalent level to other comparable leadership roles. Raise the professional status of school business leaders within the sector and within schools. Provide greater support to help mitigate some of the systemic barriers to flexible working opportunities for all roles, including school business leaders Remove the drivers of the mental health and wellbeing crisis, and provide accessible, fully- funded support for school business leaders.
FIXING THE LEADERSHIP CRISIS: TIME FOR CHANGE Making school leadership a sustainable career choice
