Learning-centred Leadership
    •Growing amount of research and 
     evidence to support this thinking
    •My work began in small schools and 
     then large ones
    •NCSL’s research took the ideas forward 
     in primary and secondary schools
    •International studies also provide 
     support 
                       Geoff Southworth
      How leaders influence what 
          happens in classrooms
    •Direct effects
    •Indirect effects
    •Reciprocal effects
    •Indirect effects are the largest and 
      most common
    •Effective leaders work directly on 
      their indirect influence
                       Geoff Southworth
        How leaders influence what 
                     happens 
                  in classrooms
                  3 strategies
                  1. Modelling
                  2. Monitoring
                  3. Dialogue
                       Geoff Southworth
                Modelling
                       Geoff Southworth
           25 years of research
    •School-based
    •Interviewing and observing leaders 
      at work
    •Found 2 things:
         1. Never found a teacher with nothing 
      to say  about her headteacher!
         2. When they talk about school leaders 
      they    usually talk about what they do 
                       Geoff Southworth