John Craig
Associate
John is Director of The Innovation Exchange, which works to grow innovation from the third sector
at 1:52pm
on Friday, 11th November 2005
Some coverage in the Times Ed today for our work with NCSL looking at the new leadership of extended schools. Sadly, my own spin on the work crashed at the news desk. I argued that school leaders were increasingly having to move away from the Alex Ferguson model of leadership - a reliance on the co-ordinating power of a common enemy. As social workers and parents alike spend more time in schools, bitching in the stafffroom is no longer an option, so that teachers need to find new sources of shared professional identity. I hadn't realised Tony Blair had implied his own parallel with the Manchester United manager - so it turns out that was probably a bad move for both of us.
Some coverage in the Times Ed today for our work with NCSL looking at the new leadership of extended schools. Sadly, my own spin on the work crashed at the news desk. I argued that school leaders were increasingly having to move away from the Alex Ferguson model of leadership - a reliance on the co-ordinating power of a common enemy. As social workers and parents alike spend more time in schools, bitching in the stafffroom is no longer an option, so that teachers need to find new sources of shared professional identity. I hadn't realised Tony Blair had implied his own parallel with the Manchester United manager - so it turns out that was probably a bad move for both of us.
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