How nice it is to be proved right! It’s all about headship styles. New research, produced by the Centre for High Performance and being published in the Harvard Business Review, has found that there are five types of heads. I was intrigued by the main three.
Those characterised by the research team as “philosophers”, the largest group, are heads who try to avoid appearing as managers, leading instead by example, as senior teachers. They emphasise pedagogy above all. In terms of improvement, over time their schools are only middling performers and, in the longer term, some of the least improved. So we’ll leave them...
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