Contacts

Senior Adviser for Leadership Marina Breeze Tel:01438 844234 Email: marina.breeze@ hertscc.gov.uk Leadership Strategy Gillian Cawley Tel: 01438 844817 Email: gillian.cawley @hertscc.gov.uk

Promoting Headship in Hertfordshire

We want to encourage as many high quality potential school leaders as possible to aim for headship in Hertfordshire schools.  This will mean promoting a role that is:

• an attractive and natural progression in leadership development
• accessible for a wide and diverse range of future leaders

Advocates for headship

Headteachers are best placed to promote and enthuse future school leaders. We will:

• create a pool of headteacher ‘advocates’ to promote the role of headship.
•  identify schools as beacons of excellence in leadership development 

New Models of Leadership

Current school leadership models many not be ‘fit for purpose’ in the changing national and local context of :

• system leadership
• children’s Centres
• extended schools

The Training and Development Agency acknowledges that there is

‘no single correct model of management of extended services’,

So we look forward to working in partnership with schools, governors and other stakeholders in establishing local models which are viable and effective for future settings in Hertfordshire.

Useful Links

New models of headship - NCSL research

• www.ncsl.org.uk