SEN-sational Leadership
eBook - ePub

SEN-sational Leadership

Leading a Successful and Sustainable Specialist Provision

  1. 221 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

SEN-sational Leadership

Leading a Successful and Sustainable Specialist Provision

About this book

SEN-sational Leadership is the essential guide to transformative leadership in special education. Tailored for both new and experienced leaders, it offers practical guidance and strategies to both enhance the quality of education and successfully grow specialist provisions.

Covering key topics such as the curriculum, culture, parental engagement, and personal development, the book provides a thorough overview of leading specialist settings. Drawing upon the authors' own rich experiences and conversations with specialist colleagues, chapters include inspiring real-life examples, practical strategies, and prompts to help the reader develop their own leadership and provision. It provides a framework for improving and growing sustainable specialist settings, underpinned by empathetic, collaborative, and innovative leadership, which can be adapted to different educational contexts.

Written by current special school senior leaders, the book brings credible and authentic perspectives on what it means to lead and grow a successful specialist provision. It will be essential reading for all those looking to become a sensational system leader of SEND.

Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2026
Print ISBN
9781032989174
9781032989198
eBook ISBN
9781040684535
Edition
1

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Endorsements
  3. Half Title
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. Our contributors
  9. Foreword
  10. Introduction
  11. 1 What makes you special? Finding your identity as a leader and a provision
  12. 2 From vision to impact: Developing curriculum in specialist settings
  13. 3 Pedagogy: Teaching every learner
  14. 4 Assessment: Small steps, big success
  15. 5 Building safe, independent lives: Personal Development and Preparation for Adulthood
  16. 6 Therapy first: Developing a therapeutic culture
  17. 7 Attracting, keeping, and caring for great people
  18. 8 Everyone a SEND practitioner: Staff development
  19. 9 Every family matters: Building parental and family engagement
  20. 10 Growing specialist provisions through people and place
  21. 11 Beyond your school gate: Partnerships, community, and SEND system leadership
  22. Conclusion
  23. Index

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