Editorial: Educational leadership on the threshold of a post-pandemic world
Schools, colleges and universities after Covid-19
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The strategic leadership of online learning during Covid and beyond: Key themes from an emerging study
Covid-19 has had an enormous impact on education. The changes to working practices, leaders’ vision for the future of education and the relationship between senior leaders, staff, parents and...
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School leadership in a time of Covid: Learning to cope with the system changes
It is indisputable that there are huge costs associated with Covid-19, and part of that has fallen to schools, school trusts (formerly known as multi-academy trusts) and local...
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Leaderless leading: How the pandemic has unleashed a collective impetus to ‘rethink’ further education
‘There is no power for change greater than a community discovering what it cares about.’ Wheatley, 2002 The above quote appears in a boxed feature in the inaugural edition of #JoyFE...
Continue reading blog postObstacles to opportunities: Towards a model of school improvement through Appreciative Inquiry
School improvement has always been high on school leaders’ agendas in England, but the pandemic has shone a light on new and emerging priorities. As well as the many problems that need to be...
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Leading in a complex world: Enabling leadership practices to support innovation, change and resilience
Academic leaders in higher education (HE) have faced a sustained period of unprecedented and complex change due to Covid-19. Leadership capability and adaptability has been tested, and there have...
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College leadership in a time of Covid-19: Learning to distribute leadership, learning to listen?
Often teams will show you the right direction from being honest, because in a pandemic there was so much to do from a leadership point of view, and it was overwhelming at times because everything...
Continue reading blog postPost-pandemic: Return or reset?
Crisis management in schools has been examined and modelled in a variety of ways, and it is possible to identify four discrete stages through which school leaders progressed during the pandemic...
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Forest School and its place within a Covid-recovery curriculum
With the easing of pandemic-related restrictions for UK schools, educators’ focus has turned to mitigating the impacts of Covid-19 on children’s learning and wellbeing (see Kumar Jha & Arora,...
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