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How teachers’ individual autonomy may hinder students’ academic progress and attainment: Professionalism in practice (2019)
Journal Article

This article reports a 3-year case study of a primary school in England, in which a recently appointed principal attempted to build ‘collegial professional autonomy’ (Nordic Journal of Studies in Educational Policy, 2, 2015, 20) within a push to impr... Read More about How teachers’ individual autonomy may hinder students’ academic progress and attainment: Professionalism in practice.

How Successful Secondary School Principals in England Respond to Policy Reforms: The Influence of Biography (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. This article examines how values embedded in the biographies of principals of successful schools influence their responses to systemic policy reforms. Drawing on examples from two secondary principals with simila... Read More about How Successful Secondary School Principals in England Respond to Policy Reforms: The Influence of Biography.

Influences on the capacities for emotional resilience of teachers in schools serving disadvantaged urban communities: challenges of living on the edge (2016)
Journal Article

This paper investigates how teachers in one school in a socio-economically disadvantaged urban setting draw upon their capacities for resilience to maintain a sense of positive professional identity, commitment and moral purpose. It identifies the dy... Read More about Influences on the capacities for emotional resilience of teachers in schools serving disadvantaged urban communities: challenges of living on the edge.

The impact of leadership on student outcomes: how successful school leaders use transformational and instructional strategies to make a difference (2016)
Journal Article

Purpose: This article illustrates how successful leaders combine the too often dichotomized practices of transformational and instructional leadership in different ways across different phases of their schools’ development in order to progressively s... Read More about The impact of leadership on student outcomes: how successful school leaders use transformational and instructional strategies to make a difference.

Using mixed methods to investigate school improvement and the role of leadership: an example of a longitudinal study in England (2014)
Journal Article

Purpose-The purpose of this paper is to discuss the use of mixed methods research in a major three year project and focuses on the contribution of quantitative and qualitative approaches to study school improvement. It discusses the procedures and mu... Read More about Using mixed methods to investigate school improvement and the role of leadership: an example of a longitudinal study in England.