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Planning for leadership succession: creating a talent pool in primary schools
Abstract
This article reports on a study that was funded by the National College for School Leadership in order to explore practices, drivers and barriers to leadership talent identification, leadership development, leadership succession planning and leadership retention within a group of contextually different schools. The article offers two narratives from primary school headteachers, operating in different circumstances, in order to show the ways in which schools are attempting to ‘grow their own’ leaders through systematic policies for leadership development. Key features of successful schools which consider themselves to be good at leadership development, which may be relevant to other primary schools, are outlined.
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- Authors
- Brundrett, M., Rhodes, C., & Gkolia, C.
- Affiliations
- Liverpool John Moores University (GB)
- University of Birmingham (GB)
- University of Manchester (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Brundrett, Mark
- Venue
- Education 3-13
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2006-10
- Volume
- 34
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 259-268
- ISSN
- 0300-4279 (ISSN-L)
- 1475-7575
- OpenAlex
- W2006172415
- Cited by
- 19
- References
- 1
- Citations by year
- 2025: 1 · 2020: 1 · 2018: 1 · 2017: 1 · 2016: 3 · 2015: 3 · 2013: 1
- FWCI
- 5.87
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Education 3-13 (publishedVersion)
- University of Birmingham Research Portal (University of Birmingham) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Education › Educational Leadership and Practices
- Social Sciences › Education › Teacher Education and Leadership Studies
- Social Sciences › Education › School Leadership and Teacher Performance
- Keywords
- leadership succession planning, leadership development, talent identification, leadership retention, primary school headteachers, school leadership, talent pool, school leadership policy, barriers to leadership development
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