Latest publications
This page lists the latest publications available on the NCSL website.
- Successful leadership for promoting the achievement of white working class pupils
This research identified 12 schools that have managed to buck the national trend in the attainment levels of their white, working-class students, and from this it delivers a blueprint for school leadership.
- Research Associate Reports Winter 2008
Six new Research Associate reports, covering a range of education topics.
- Leadership for public value: achieving valuable outcomesfor children, families and communities
This report shows how a set of schools and centres are engaging with their local communities to explore new ways of working, with the aim of doing a better job both for the young people and families they serve directly and for the communities they work with and within.
- Trust in collaborative working: the importance of trust for leaders of school based partnerships
This report describes the findings from original research undertaken into the importance of trust as a driver of school-based collaborations.
- Leadership for personalising learning
This study brings together the key research and thinking into how school leaders can embed personalisation and high quality learning within every aspect of their school.
- Review of the landscape: leadership and leadership development 2008
This report brings together key insights and findings on effective school leadership and leadeship development, and highlights major themes and message for the future.
- ECM Premium Project: school leadership, Every Child Matters and school standards
The specific aims of the project were to identify the evidence base for a link between ECM and improvements in school standards (commonly known as ‘the ECM Premium‘) and to identify the nature and quality of leadership that underpinned it. The project has also produced case studies and a toolkit.
- Emerging patterns of school leadership: current practice and future directions
This study set out to map and explore emerging practice and to highlight possible future directions in school leadership, management and governance
- Research Associate reports Summer 2008
Eight new practitioner research reports are available covering a range of school leadership topics.
- Valuing our future: a toolkit for developing sustainable schools
This toolkit was developed to help school leaders review their current position and develop an action plan to make their schools more sustainable.
- What we are learning about: leadership of Every Child Matters
This paper focuses on current knowledge and thinking about Every Child Matters and school leadership. Its findings are summarised in six key messages.
- The future of leadership
This booklet sets out what some of the world's leading thinkers have to say about leadership - past, present and into the future. Senior staff at NCSL have been meeting their counterparts at the NHS Institute for some time, to share examples of what we each do.
- Schools learning from their best
Focusing on the results of what is a novel way of improving school quality, in which the system of schools itself learns from its own best people and practices rather than being encouraged to follow central guidance, policy or advice.
