Outputs (39)

Local learning landscapes: conceptualising place-based professional learning by teachers and schools in decentralised education systems (2024)
Journal Article
Greany, T., Cowhitt, T., Noyes, A., Gripton, C., & Hudson, G. (2024). Local learning landscapes: conceptualising place-based professional learning by teachers and schools in decentralised education systems. Journal of Educational Change, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10833-024-09508-x

This article sets out an original conceptual framework for place-based professional learning by teachers and schools in decentralised education systems. High quality Continuing Professional Development and Learning (CDPL) by teachers is associated wi... Read More about Local learning landscapes: conceptualising place-based professional learning by teachers and schools in decentralised education systems.

The best of times, the worst of times: Continuities in school leaders' work in uncertain times (2024)
Journal Article
Thomson, P., & Greany, T. (in press). The best of times, the worst of times: Continuities in school leaders' work in uncertain times. Educational Management Administration and Leadership, https://doi.org/10.1177/17411432231218544

The COVID 19 pandemic created new challenges for school leaders. They worked very long hours in difficult circumstances. Improvising and responding quickly to poorly timed central guidelines had an adverse effect on their health and wellbeing. Our mi... Read More about The best of times, the worst of times: Continuities in school leaders' work in uncertain times.

Schools Partnership Programme: Evaluation Report (2023)
Report
Godfrey, D., Anders, J., Stoll, L., Jerrim, J., Munoz Chereau, B., McGinity, R., & Greany, T. (2023). Schools Partnership Programme: Evaluation Report. London: Education Endowment Foundation

Leadership across partnerships and networks (2023)
Book Chapter
Greany, T. (2023). Leadership across partnerships and networks. In P. A. Woods, A. Roberts, M. Tian, & H. Youngs (Eds.), Handbook on Leadership in Education (143-156). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800880429.00017

This chapter focuses on leadership across inter-school partnerships and networks. It argues that existing research and policy has prioritised a focus on leadership within individual schools, but that this is insufficient in the context of contemporar... Read More about Leadership across partnerships and networks.

Storytelling With Networks: Realizing the Explanatory Potential of Network Diagrams Through the Integration of Qualitative Data (2023)
Journal Article
Cowhitt, T., Greany, T., & Downey, C. (2023). Storytelling With Networks: Realizing the Explanatory Potential of Network Diagrams Through the Integration of Qualitative Data. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 22, https://doi.org/10.1177/16094069231189369

Network visualizations are alluring yet deceptively difficult to interpret. This article demonstrates several strategies for integrating qualitative data into interactive network diagrams for the purposes of providing contextual information about act... Read More about Storytelling With Networks: Realizing the Explanatory Potential of Network Diagrams Through the Integration of Qualitative Data.

Do informal networks become formalised over time? Analysing school networks and multi-academy trust membership in England using ego-centric analysis (2023)
Journal Article
Greany, T., Cowhitt, T., & Downey, C. (2024). Do informal networks become formalised over time? Analysing school networks and multi-academy trust membership in England using ego-centric analysis. Journal of Educational Change, 25, 151-172. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10833-023-09485-7

Recent decades have seen a global shift in educational policy and practice towards various forms of ‘joining-up’, through partnerships and networks. These networks have differing aims but are broadly geared towards increasing quality and/or innovatio... Read More about Do informal networks become formalised over time? Analysing school networks and multi-academy trust membership in England using ego-centric analysis.

Local learning landscapes: exploring coherence, equity and quality in teacher professional development in England (2023)
Report
Greany, T., Noyes, A., Gripton, C., Cowhitt, T., & Hudson, G. (2023). Local learning landscapes: exploring coherence, equity and quality in teacher professional development in England. Wellcome

Ensuring that all teachers engage in high-quality Continuing Professional Development and Learning (CPDL) has long been a policy priority in school systems worldwide, given evidence that this can lead to improvements in teaching quality and, thereby,... Read More about Local learning landscapes: exploring coherence, equity and quality in teacher professional development in England.

School to school collaboration through Teaching School Alliances in England: ‘system leadership’ in a messy and hybrid governance context (2022)
Book Chapter
Greany, T., & Armstrong, P. (2022). School to school collaboration through Teaching School Alliances in England: ‘system leadership’ in a messy and hybrid governance context. In P. Armstrong, & C. Brown (Eds.), School to School Collaboration: Learning Across International Contexts. London: Emerald

This chapter explores school-to-school collaboration via Teaching School Alliances (TSAs) in one locality in England, drawing on governance theory (Bevir, 2011) - specifically hierarchy, markets and networks (Tenbensel, 2015). It focuses on three TSA... Read More about School to school collaboration through Teaching School Alliances in England: ‘system leadership’ in a messy and hybrid governance context.

Working with complexity: Leading school networks in Aotearoa New Zealand and England (2022)
Journal Article
Greany, T., & Kamp, A. (2024). Working with complexity: Leading school networks in Aotearoa New Zealand and England. Educational Management Administration and Leadership, 52(5), 1047-1061. https://doi.org/10.1177/17411432221124746

Inter-school networks have been promoted in many school systems globally to facilitate: knowledge generation and dissemination; responsiveness to increasingly diverse student and societal needs; and emotional and practical peer support for educationa... Read More about Working with complexity: Leading school networks in Aotearoa New Zealand and England.

Teacher learning in a shifting school landscape: The implications of academisation for professional development in primary mathematics (2022)
Journal Article
Gripton, C., Hudson, G., Greany, T., Noyes, A., & Cowhitt, T. (2022). Teacher learning in a shifting school landscape: The implications of academisation for professional development in primary mathematics. Forum: for Promoting 3-19 Comprehensive Education, 64(3), 32-41. https://doi.org/10.3898/forum.2022.64.3.04

Alongside new models for government-funded professional development, England's academisation policy has significantly changed access, provision and responsibilities for teacher learning. This article reviews this impact on professional learning in pr... Read More about Teacher learning in a shifting school landscape: The implications of academisation for professional development in primary mathematics.