Best Practice

Taking the step up to the SLT

Senior leadership
SecEd is a supporter of the Future Leaders programme. Here, Jessica West details her journey from middle to senior leadership via the initiative and discusses some of the challenges she has faced along the way.

I’ll wager there’s not a teacher in the country who sees through the festive period without stationery making an appearance. Whether Santa brings us red pens, whether we are first in the sales queue for smiley-faced stickers, or whether we got a new PowerPoint clicker under our Christmas tree (digital stationery), we all love a shiny new bit of school kit to start the year.

But what else is new as we enter the new year? “What’s new?” is a helpful challenge to the more negative question that creeps in, particularly towards the end of a long term: “What now?!”

In schools, there is always something new; the pace at which policy alone changes is dizzying, and sometimes daunting. But there is no better time to embrace a new challenge than at the start of a new year.

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