Developing Outstanding Leaders for Challenging Schools

Developing Outstanding Leaders for Challenging Schools - "In January 2006, Lord Adonis, then under-secretary of state at the Department for Children, Schools and Families, invited representatives from the National College, the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust and the children's charity Absolute Return for Kids to visit New York to examine a new charity - aptly called New Leaders for New Schools - set up to find and accelerate suitable candidates for headship. On their return, motivated by what they'd seen, the research group recommended a similar scheme be trialled in London schools to address educational disadvantage and combat the impending shortage of headteachers. The proposed programme was to be different from other leadership programmes in that it would be urban-based, mission-driven and transformational in nature. And so the Future Leaders story began."