The leadership of schools can make a significant difference to enhancing the life chances of students in schools and enabling them to succeed. This book examines leadership within schools, focusing on securing success within a challenging social and political environment. It explores the approaches to leadership adopted by four successful secondary school headteachers in a local authority situated in an area of high social deprivation and identifies the impact the headteachers of these schools have on staff, students and community. It analyses the key leadership strategies of these successful school leaders, strategies that can be deployed in all schools, and explores the links between leadership theories and leadership actions. The book goes on to examine how these strategies were actually implemented in a failing school in challenging circumstances and shows how other schools might benefit from such strategies and the insights on which they are based.

List of TablesAcknowledgements1. Schools in Challenging Circumstances2. School Leadership: Concepts and Realities3. Using Transactional Leadership in Schools4. Using Transformational Leadership in Schools5. Deploying Transformational Leadership: Strategies for Challenging Circumstances6. Implementing Transformational Leadership in a Challenging School: A Case Study7. Successful Leadership in Challenging Circumstances: From Theory to ImplementationAppendicesReferencesIndex