Subject Leadership and School Improvement

Dr. Hugh Busher is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Education University of Leicester who gained extensive experience of teaching in secondary schools before moving into Higher Education. He researches and teaches to Masters and Doctoral students research methods, the construction of social justice through critical perspectives on the interactions of people, power and culture in mainly school-based learning communities, and the conflicts surrounding students' voices and teachers' development in particular institutional and policy contexts. Along with Dr Nalita James in 2009. he published a book on Online Interviewing with SAGE. He is currently co-leading a project on the learning experiences and changing identities of marginalised adult learners on Access courses. Alma Harris is Professor of Educational Leadership at the Institute of Educational Leadership, University of Malaya, Malaysia. Since September 2012, she has been the Director of the Institute of Educational Leadership at the University of Malaya (UM). In 2010-2012 she was a senior policy adviser to the Welsh Government. Professor Harris holds visiting professorial posts at Moscow Higher School of Economics, Nottingham Business School, University of Wales and the University of Southampton. She is currently Past President of the International Congress for School Effectiveness and School Improvement. Professor Harris has published many books including Distributed Leadership Matters (2013), and Uplifting Leadership (2014) with Andy Hargreaves and Alan Boyle.

Introduction PART ONE: STRATEGIC DIRECTION AND DEVELOPMENT OF A SUBJECT AREA Managing Change within the Subject Area Managing Federal and Confederate Departments in Schools Leading and Co-ordinating Diffuse Subject Areas PART TWO: TEACHING AND LEARNING Being a Curriculum Leader Helping Colleagues to Improve Learning Improving Teaching and Learning within the Subject Area Developing Professional Networks Working with Parents and Communities to Enhance Students' Learning PART THREE: LEADING AND MANAGING STAFF The Subject Leader as a Middle Manager Cultures of Leadership and Professional Autonomy Managing Self, Developing Others Professional Development and Action Enquiry PART FOUR: EFFICIENT AND EFFECTIVE DEPLOYMENT OF STAFF AND RESOURCES Planning Development and Resource Utilization to Improve Students' Learning Working with Support and Supply Staff to Improve School Performance Subject Leadership and School Improvement