Doing Middle Leadership Right

Lyndsay Bawden is a trust-wide English lead and a former HoD, Lead Practitioner and SLE. She works with SLT and English teams to provide CPD, mentoring and coaching, curriculum design and to support with improvement strategies.

Jade Hickin has been a teacher of English for over ten years and is a former Head of Department. She is currently working as a Trust-Wide Lead Practitioner for English as well as the Whole-School Lead Practitioner for Teaching and Learning in a MAT.

Kaley Macis-Riley works as the Head of English, Drama and Whole-School Lead for Literacy at a school in Derbyshire. Alongside her teaching commitments, Kaley runs an education consultancy business, HoDandHeart, offering CPD to teachers and leaders globally.

Are you a new or aspiring middle leader? Or have you been doing the job for a while but want some practical tips to ease workload and support your staff? This book draws together real experiences of middle leadership, both good and bad, and offers practical tips to help you find your voice, support your team, act with integrity and work with the Senior Leadership Team to improve your school.

Covering all aspects of middle leadership including leadership styles, pedagogical approaches, the role of social media, how to tackle difficult conversations, staff wellbeing and much more, the authors will help you avoid common pitfalls, navigate highs and lows, and develop a school environment that enables both students and staff to flourish.

For any new, experienced or prospective middle-leader Doing Middle Leadership Right provides a professional insight into how to lead with humanity at the centre of your practice. It puts staff and their wellbeing first - focussing not only on how to have the highest standards for both students and staff but also how to lead ethically.

This book draws together real experiences of middle leadership, both good and bad, and offers practical tips to help you find your voice, support your team, act with integrity, and work with the Senior Leadership Team to improve your school.

Introduction  1. Ethical Leadership and Managing Change  2. Quality Assurance: Balancing Accountability and Humanity  3. Difficult Conversations (How to Have Them, and Not Cry)  4. Curriculum Development: the Theory  5. Curriculum Development: the Practicalities  6. Teaching and Learning  7. Assessment  8. Teaching to the Top  9. Behaviour Management  10. CPD and Coaching  11. Social Media  12. Flexible Working  13. Positive Disruption  14. Common Pitfalls, and Debunking Myths  15. Conclusion