Communicating the Change Agenda in a Cruising School

Communicating the Change Agenda in a Cruising School - "The apparent success of the school served to mask significant underachievement beneath the surface. The appointment of a new headteacher ... heralded a new era for the school, and his research into the school’s performance ... provided rich data and a new perspective on the school. Borrowing a phrase from Stoll and Fink (1996), he identified the school at the time of his appointment as ‘cruising’ and highlighted the deficiencies of school leadership as a lack of vision, a patrician style of management and having poor lines of communication."